Why the Same Test on Paper or Digitally Leads to Different Scores

If you give the exact same test to two comparable classes of students, once digitally and once on paper, it's likely you'll see measurably different results. This has nothing to do with what the students know. It's a property of the medium itself. This phenomenon is called the Mode effect . The mode effect is the systematic difference in scores caused purely by how a test is delivered - paper,…