ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the trend toward use of object-based schemes for intelligent building and administration of tests and considers which aspects of testing are handled well by such approaches and which will need further research and conceptualization. While expert procedures are well captured as sets of productions, expert conceptual knowledge seems better captured through object-based models, whether the conceptual expertise is that of a human or that embodied in an intelligent system. Some intelligent tutoring system's have represented both the environments in which expertise should be applied as well as the expert's knowledge of those environments as collections of computational objects. Accordingly, greater amounts of microtesting may be required to determine the extent to which an expert object is fully present in a student's knowledge.
