A long-standing dictum of educational assessment has been that a task or item should test one and only one skill/construct so that the interpretation of the response is not muddied or contaminated. But in real-life language use it is often the case, for example, that someone in college will read a text, make notes, listen to a lecture, and then write a critical evaluation. The reading and listening feed into the written response, which is then evaluated for its quality in that context. This is one example of integrated assessment, which Dr Lia Plakans expertly discusses in this video.
