Blogs

Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference Announcment

By Nathan Dadey posted 18 days ago
Be the first person to recommend this.
We are thrilled to announce an NCME Special Conference called the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con) . It will be held in-person in Pittsburgh, PA on October 27-29, 2025, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown. The theme is “ Innovation and Evidence: Shaping the Future of AI in Educational Measurement ”. This conference aims to gather an interdisciplinary group of experts from education, artificial intelligence, measurement, natural language processing, assessment, learning analytics, and technological development to foster learning across all groups. The AIME-Con will include training sessions on October ...
0 comments

Supporting NCME Members and Our Measurement Mission

By Nathan Dadey posted 30 days ago
Be the first person to recommend this.
Dear NCME Colleagues, Like many of you watching executive activity in and around federal data institutions in the United States, we in NCME leadership have been alarmed by rapid and reckless changes and their effects on our many members who work for and with federal institutions. These changes threaten the NCME mission : to improve measurement scholarship and practice to benefit society. On Tuesday, NCME joined our sibling organizations on the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics ( COPAFS ) to uphold the value of federal data systems, the laws that govern their privacy and quality, and the role of Congress in funding and oversight. ...
0 comments

Get Involved: Join an NCME Committee and Shape the Future of Educational Measurement!

By Nathan Dadey posted 02-06-2025
Be the first person to recommend this.
Get Involved Join an NCME Committee and Shape the Future of Educational Measurement! It's that time of year again to re-organize and re-energize our NCME committees! We have 12 topical committees, 2 program committees, 6 award committees that play are very active and play a crucial role in our community's success. NCME committees involve various NCME programs (coordinate action on a variety of projects and programs) and awards (review nominations and select recipients). Committee members typically serve a three-year term. Here are brief descriptions of our committees. For more detailed information, including current committee members, go to the committee ...
0 comments

President's Message – February 2025

By Nathan Dadey posted 02-06-2025
Be the first person to recommend this.
Dear NCME Community, As we settle into the new year, there is so much to look forward to in this great organization: 1) I am grateful to our program committee for working hard to release a preliminary program for our annual meeting, April 23-26, in Denver, Colorado. With training sessions on Wednesday, joint receptions on Thursday, award celebrations on Friday, an Informal Presidential Closing Reception (with an exclusive gift!) on Saturday, and top-notch scholarship throughout, I am looking forward to educational measurement’s greatest showcase and community gathering of the year. 2) In January, I had the honor of convening an NCME Presidential ...
0 comments

Annual Meeting Preliminary Program Available

By Nathan Dadey posted 02-04-2025
Be the first person to recommend this.
NCME Colleagues, We are excited to announce that the preliminary program for the 2025 NCME Annual Meeting is now available! Follow these steps to find your scheduled sessions: Select “Speakers” from the left-hand menu. Type in your name and select it from the list. View the pop-up window with your scheduled sessions. Note that your roles as presenting author or co-author will appear in the top of the box under “Sessions/Presentations”. If you have any roles as Chair, Moderator, or Discussant, they will be listed under “Sessions” at the bottom of the box. Alternatively, you can search by a presentation/session title by selecting “Search/Filter ...
0 comments

Annual Meeting Preliminary Program Available

By Nathan Dadey posted 02-04-2025
Be the first person to recommend this.
NCME Colleagues, We are excited to announce that the preliminary program for the 2025 NCME Annual Meeting is now available! Follow these steps to find your scheduled sessions: Select “Speakers” from the left-hand menu. Type in your name and select it from the list. View the pop-up window with your scheduled sessions. Note that your roles as presenting author or co-author will appear in the top of the box under “Sessions/Presentations”. If you have any roles as Chair, Moderator, or Discussant, they will be listed under “Sessions” at the bottom of the box. Alternatively, you can search by a presentation/session title by selecting “Search/Filter ...
0 comments

President's Message - January 2025

By Nathan Dadey posted 02-04-2025
Be the first person to recommend this.
NCME President: Dr. Andrew Ho Harvard Graduate School of Education President's Message Updated on Jan. 8, 2025 Dear NCME Community, As we greet 2025, I am full of optimism for the coming year for NCME. Conference registration is open for our annual meeting at the Hilton Denver City Center, April 23-26. Representatives from over 35 academic institutions will join our NCME Presidential Summit for Educational Measurement Programs on January 9 and 13. And our 6 awards committees are standing by to learn about and celebrate the accomplishments of NCME members ( nominations are ...
0 comments

It’s Internship Season: New Opportunities Are Opening Up!

By Nathan Dadey posted 11-22-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
Every year in late Fall and early Spring, many organizations begin posting internship offerings. NCME is making a concerted effort to index all available internship opportunities on the Internships and Fellowships Page . If you area graduate student, don’t wait—start exploring now and check back often for the newest opportunities. Internship season moves fast and some deadlines are coming up soon. Right now there are just a few postings, but we will be updating regularly as announcements are made. For more on the internship application process, as well as the full life cycle of an internship, see the recording of NCME's recent webinar The Life Cycle of an ...
0 comments

Resources Posted: Recent Webinar Materials & Graduate Programs List

By Nathan Dadey posted 11-22-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
Review the Meeting Recording: NLP for Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes On May 8, 2024, Rose E. Wang from Stanford University presented on "Natural Language Processing for Improving Student Learning Outcomes," organized by the NCME Artificial Intelligence in Measurement & Education (AIME) SIGIMIE. Dr. Wang highlighted her empirical language-based approach using NLP to enhance educational language at scale. She discussed Bridge, a method using cognitive task analysis to translate expert thought processes into decision-making models for remediation. Bridge-guided large language models (LLMs) outperformed novice tutors and LLMs alone in blind tests. ...
0 comments

Classroom Assessment Committee Announcements

By Nathan Dadey posted 11-22-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
The NCME Classroom Assessment Committee invites NCME members to get involved with classroom assessment work in the following ways: Consider hosting the 2026 NCME Special Conference on Classroom Assessment . Read the call for proposals to host here . Please recommend webinar speakers to share their knowledge, understanding, and implementation of best practices in classroom assessment. Use this form to nominate yourself or a peer. Consider signing your name to express your support for the creation of a new SIGIMIE, tentatively named “Assessment and Measurement to Support Classroom Learning”. Sign up here . Consider contributing to the ...
0 comments

NCME Launches Educational Measurement and Civil Rights Task Force

By Nathan Dadey posted 11-22-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
On May 30, the Presidential Task Force on the Role of Educational Measurement in the Protection and Advancement of Civil Rights held its inaugural meeting. The Task force, which was announced in March by Immediate Past President Michael Walker, will be chaired by Dr. Britte Haugan Cheng (Menlo Education Research, LLC). Cheng is joined on the Task Force by Co-chairs Dr. Sarah Beach (Education Rights Institute, University of Virginia School of Law), Dr. Juan D’Brot (Center for Assessment), and Dr. Howard Everson (Graduate Center, City University of New York). The eleven other Task Force members represent university faculty, graduate students, departments ...
0 comments

Call for Authors to Publish in ITEMS!

By Nathan Dadey posted 11-22-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
Call for Authors to Publish in ITEMS! Do you want to share your expertise with a broader audience in an interactive format? Are you interested in publishing in Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice ? If so, consider developing an ITEMS module! What Are ITEMS Modules? ITEMS modules are instructional resources designed to introduce key topics in educational measurement. With our user-friendly templates, you can get started without needing special instructional design skills or prior teaching experience. Benefits of Developing an ITEMS Module: Self-Paced Publication Cycle: Complete the process in less than a year. ...
0 comments

President's Message - November 2025

By Nathan Dadey posted 11-22-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
NCME President: Dr. Andrew Ho Harvard Graduate School of Education President's Message Updated on Nov. 12, 2024 Dear NCME Community, October was another productive month for this great organization. Here are five updates that reflect some of the many ways NCME is advancing its mission, to advance theory and applications of educational measurement to benefit society . 1) Excitement is building among our program committees about our annual meeting in Denver, April 23-26 . The tireless program team of Katherine Castellano and Scott Monroe (Program Chairs), Qiwei Britt He and Matthew Madison ...
0 comments

Call for Papers - CEJEME Journal

By Nathan Dadey posted 07-11-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
The Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation (CEJEME) is issuing a CALL FOR PAPERS for the upcoming special issue on AI and machine learning in measurement. CEJEME is a newly established, bilingual journal of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), co-sponsored by Beijing Normal University, China (ISSN: 2837-0899). CEJEME publishes articles on cutting-edge topics in educational measurement, evaluation, and policy. The journal aims to cater to a broad, applied audience and provides a platform for intellectual exchange on a wide range of methodological, ethical, and policy issues within an international and technology-driven ...
0 comments

Access Equity and Assessment for Learning Resources

By Nathan Dadey posted 07-11-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
In the fall of 2023, the NCME Classroom Assessment Committee held a webinar series titled “Equity and Assessment for Learning.” Bringing together researchers, practitioners, and experts in culturally sustaining assessment, this two-part series explored the role of classroom assessment in promoting equity and how to develop professional learning for more equitable formative assessment. Access the recordings here and review the resources that were generated through this collaboration here .
0 comments

2025 NCME Annual Meeting Call for Proposals

By Nathan Dadey posted 07-11-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
We are excited to announce that the Call for Proposals for the 2025 NCME Annual Meeting is now available! The NCME Board has collectively decided to hold next year’s Annual Meeting in Denver, CO from April 23-26, 2025. Wednesday, April 23 will be the in-person training day and program sessions will run from Thursday, April 24 through Saturday, April 26. Program Chairs The 2025 Annual Meeting Program Chairs are Katherine Castellano and Scott Monroe, and the Training & Professional Development Chairs are Matthew James Madison and Qiwei (Britt) He. To contact the chairs, please email them at NCMEProgramChairs@ncme.org. Registration Registration ...
0 comments

2024 Classroom Assessment Conference Registration Open

By Nathan Dadey posted 06-17-2024
Be the first person to recommend this.
Registration for the 2024 Classroom Assessment Conference is now open! Register today! The 5th NCME Special Conference on Classroom Assessment is being held in person September 19-20, 2024 at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL. The conference theme is “Reclaiming the Promise of Balanced Assessment Systems: Achieving Deeper Learning at Scale for Both Students and Adults.” This year’s special conference is being co-hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools, with support from the Center for Assessment. These hosts continue NCME’s longstanding commitment to improving assessment practices that privilege deeper ...
0 comments

Updates and Opportunities Fall 2020

By Megan Welsh posted 12-14-2020
Be the first person to recommend this.
Updates Lots has been happening behind the scenes at NCME. Please see the links below for details: Journal of Educational Measurement Update Formative Assessment for Classroom Teachers Graduate Student Issues Committee Update Conference Chairs Update Website Committee Update Kadriye Ercikan Named Book Series Editor NCME Fitness Walkrun Corner Update Upcoming Opportunities We are excited to share news about the upcoming conference, SIGIMIES you can become involved with, the NCME Board of Directors Election, the EM:IP Data Visualization Competition, ...
0 comments

Articles Fall 2020

By Megan Welsh posted 12-14-2020
Be the first person to recommend this.
Articles Challenges in College Admissions and Beyond Maria Elena Oliveri and Cathy Wendler, Independent Consultants A s long as a top priority for many countries is to retain a well-educated population, ensuring fairness in higher education admissions and beyond will remain important. The current pandemic is calling into question the practices and criteria used to make admissions decisions and the role of higher education itself. Students may be unable to take the tests required for admissions or to secure faculty recommendations in a virtual setting. Institutions are finding ...
0 comments

SIGIMIE Section Fall 2020

By Megan Welsh posted 12-14-2020
Be the first person to recommend this.
SIGIMIE Section We have added a new section of the newsletter to introduce the membership to the work of different SIGIMIES. In this issue, the State and Local Assessment Leaders and Contemporary Issues in Scaling, Linking and Equating SIGIMIES share their work. An Update from the State and Local Assessment Leaders SIGIMIE Andrew Middlestead, Michigan Department of Education O ur SIGMIE has been able to have several meetings virtually in 2020. While we were saddened to not be able to follow through with our plans to meet together at an in-person conference last April we have appreciated “seeing” ...
0 comments