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The start of fall, particularly the months of September and October, is typically filled with conferences around the world, especially across Eurasia and North America, where I had the oppor...

Assessments Digital Learning Environments (DLEs) for math are created with the aim of building students’ mathematical thinking, knowledge, and skills. It is therefore critical that such DLEs...

Assessments move to the digital era and assessment organizations face a new challenge: what to do with lots of streamlined process data available now. Every click, keystroke, and pause durin...

Many digital learning environments (DLEs) for mathematics are available to educators and students. For middle and high-school mathematics, graphing calculators like Desmos and Geogebra are p...

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...