What Can Professional Football Teach Us About the Responsible Use of Tests?
The NFL’s use—and misuse—of test scores in the draft highlights a few important lessons we should apply to educational assessments.
Read MoreThe NFL’s use—and misuse—of test scores in the draft highlights a few important lessons we should apply to educational assessments.
Read MoreGoogle’s recent release of Gemini showcases AI’s potential to reshape educational assessment. We must be open to these changes, while monitoring and managing their risks.
Read MoreStates must reconsider their content standards, assessments, and testing practices to keep up with two important trends in college- and career-readiness.
Read MoreThe federal innovative assessment pilot has hobbled the testing improvements it aimed to promote. We can change that by rethinking test comparability.
Read MoreThere are striking disconnects in our work that can affect the impact our field can have on K-12 learning, educational measurement, and accountability.
Read MoreAn assessment’s negative or positive consequences are just as important as other dimensions of assessment quality, and should be part of test validity evaluations.
Read MoreAndré Rupp provides answers to frequently asked questions about four aspects of diagnostic classification models in K-12 education.
Read MoreBased on Remarks Given During a Town Hall Session at the 2022 NCME Conference I was honored to participate in a validity “town hall” at last week’s NCME conference with […]
Read MoreThe Center Welcomes the Return of In-Person AERA and NCME Conferences After two years of virtual conferences, meetings, and just about everything else, Center professionals are excited to gather in […]
Read MorePart 2: Mode or Accommodation? A Framework for Thinking about How Remote Administration Impacts Test Score Meaning This is the second in a series of three posts on planning for […]
Read MorePart 1: Why Validity is Threatened under Remote Administration Conditions This is the first in a series of three posts on planning for the examination of the validity of scores […]
Read MoreThe Role of Values in Addressing Fairness in Educational Testing Purpose, Use, and Consequences What is fairness in educational testing? We take for granted that we know what is fair […]
Read MoreIn 2018, the Center was honored to be invited by the National Academy of Education to contribute two chapters to the book Comparability of Large-Scale Educational Assessments, which was released […]
Read MorePart 2: A New Framework for Organizing and Evaluating Claims This is the second in a series of posts by our 2020 summer interns and their mentors based on their project and […]
Read MorePart 1: Designing Assessments to Support Claims Once again this year, we are pleased to share posts on CenterLine by our summer interns and their mentors. These posts are based on the […]
Read MoreWe cannot know what classrooms and teaching will look like in the coming school year, but that doesn’t need to prevent states from planning ahead for accurately equating spring 2021 […]
Read MoreImplications of School Closures on Assessment Needs According to Education Week, “as of March 23, 2020, 7:31 p.m. ET: 46 states have decided to close schools. Combined with district closures in other […]
Read MoreAn Educational Perspective Last fall, Senior Associate Juan D’Brot was elected to the executive committee of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, formed in 1975 as a coalition of […]
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