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Shiell and Aaron D. Slepkov Trent University  \nIntegrated testlets are a new assessment tool that encompass the procedural benefits of multiple-choice testing, the pedagogical advantages of free-response-based tests, and the collaborative aspects of a viva voce or defence examination format. The result is a robust assessment tool that provides a significant formative aspect for students. Integrated testlets utilize an answer-until-correct response format within a scaffolded set of multiple-choice items that each provide immediate confirmatory or corrective feedback while also allowing for the granting of partial credit. We posit here that this testing format comprises a form of expert-student collaboration, we expand on this significance and discuss possible extensions to the approach.  \nIntroduction  \nCourse assessment is a key component of  \nuniversity courses, and yet in comparison to the delivery of course content, the methodology of assessment is less frequently considered. It is rare to reflect why and how we assess, and even more rare to address how to most effectively conduct the assessment (Mazur, 2013) . The most immediate purposes of classroom tests are both to assess students’learning outcomes and to act as a motivator for students (Ebel & Frisbie, 1991), yet instructors now increasingly have many additional objectives from conducting assessments, including providing formative experiences such as practice in problem solving, opportunities for meta-cognitive reflection, and confidence-boosting opportunities.  \nEven within a purely summative context, it has long been assumed that assessment through a set of free-response questions (also called constructedresponse questions) is the most effective approach to assess student understanding. Here a student  \ngenerates an acceptable response by demonstrating their integration of a wide and often complex set of skills and concepts. To score the question, an expert interprets each response and gauges its level of“correctness.” In contrast to these are multiple-choice questions (termed items), where response options are provided with the correct answer (the keyed option) listed along with several incorrect answers (the distractors) . The student’s task is then to select the keyed option from this list. Free-response questions are usually presumed a more valid assessment tool as they do not provide students with the correct answer and are perceived to better assess the combination of cognitive processes needed for solving problems that integrate several concepts and procedures. The explicit solution synthesis required by free-response questions furthermore suggests to instructors a strong (but often false) sense of transparency of student thinking. Nonetheless, the scoring of multiple-choice items is quicker, more reliable and cheaper (Haladyna, 2004), and with proper construction, multiple-choice items can be powerful tools for the  \nassessment of conceptual knowledge (DiBattista, 2008). Many introductory final exams consist entirely of multiple-choice questions, where the procedural advantages of multiple-choice testing are weighed against any pedagogical disadvantages stemming from an exam format that may necessarily measure only compartmentalized conceptual knowledge and calculation procedures. Overall the use of a multiplechoice format for formal assessments in many disciplines is not wholeheartedly embraced, and, when possible, greater exam weight is still typically placed on traditional free-response questions that require explicit synthesis to solve the problem at hand.  \nTo address the perceived drawbacks of multiple-choice testing a number of variants have been introduced; specifically in order to assess complex cognitive processes and/or to reward partial knowledge. 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