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Scientific excellence is the foundation of high-quality assessments, but it is public trust that turns assessments into the instruments of policy, equity, and learning. In a cyclical manner,...

For decades, assessments across the field of education, both paper and digital, have used test scores as the principal measure of student learning. A student gets a question right or wrong, ...

Educational large-scale student assessments rely on two general item types: selected-response (e.g., multiple-choice) and constructed-response items, which encompass both short-answer and lo...

There has likely been a moment in your life when, while accessing a public service, you wondered why the process took longer than expected or involved obviously repetitive steps. When questi...

A well-designed test blueprint supports constructive alignment by linking the three main foundations of education: learning objectives, instructional activities, and assessments, into a syst...

Most jurisdictions and testing organizations utilize framework documents, while others may not. Among those that do, there is a wide range of content included, often presented in various for...

The success of test delivery depends not only on the quality of the assessment itself but also on the maturity of the systems that support it. The test represents the product, and the system...

Jurisdictions/testing organizations have transitioned from paper-based to digital assessments for many reasons. In my 2023 article, I provide highlevel descriptions of several benefits of di...

The underlying idea behind any benchmarking lies in the desire or ambition to improve, which requires the use of a specific method. In the context of educational assessment, this method may ...