Appendix B

Sample assessment task-ICT components

• Focus on the components of ICT proficiency: access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create
• Present a scenario followed by tasks addressing each of the five components

Below is an example of what one task in this type of assessment might look like. A complete assessment would include a number of different tasks that vary in difficulty and require a range of knowledge and skills in technical, cognitive, and problem-solving domains.

Opening scenario (Workplace context)

Employees in your company have been asked to provide information about the technology training courses that they have taken during the past year. They have sent e-mail messages to their supervisors and each supervisor has forwarded the information to the director of human resources. You've been asked to organize the information, evaluate the extent to which company-based courses are being utilized and make a recommendation to the human resources department about which courses should be continued next year.

The five components

Based on this scenario, test takers would be presented with a series of tasks. Each task would be designed to measure one of the five components, as summarized in the chart below. While the sequence in which individual test takers undertake these tasks might vary, each component could be scored discretely in order to better understand its relative contribution to an individual's overall ICT proficiency.