| The ability to use many features in Microsoft Word, for instance, is certainly no guarantee a unique paper or creative poem will materialize. These students, not surprisingly, have come to rely on easy-to-access online resources such as Google and Wikipedia as if oblivious to peer-reviewed scholarship. Dr. Bonk is the author of many books, including the Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs (2006) as well as Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008). While known for scoring the SAT college entrance exam in the U.S. and administrating the TOEFL exam in other countries, a new 75-minute test, offered at two levels, provides the test taker with a set of problems to solve related to abilities to organize, evaluate, and communicate electronic data. There are 14 subtasks of 3-5 minutes each and one longer 15-minute task. Sample scenarios require the test taker to research a topic on the Web, find information from multiple sources, and compare found information to the initial problem statement. |