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

By Nathan Dadey posted 10 days ago
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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 ...
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Resources Posted: Recent Webinar Materials & Graduate Programs List

By Nathan Dadey posted 10 days ago
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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. ...
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Classroom Assessment Committee Announcements

By Nathan Dadey posted 10 days ago
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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 ...
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NCME Launches Educational Measurement and Civil Rights Task Force

By Nathan Dadey posted 10 days ago
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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 ...
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Call for Authors to Publish in ITEMS!

By Nathan Dadey posted 10 days ago
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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. ...
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President's Message

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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 ...
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Call for Papers - CEJEME Journal

By Nathan Dadey posted 07-11-2024
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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 ...
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Access Equity and Assessment for Learning Resources

By Nathan Dadey posted 07-11-2024
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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 . #CurrentNews
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2025 NCME Annual Meeting Call for Proposals

By Nathan Dadey posted 07-11-2024
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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 ...
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2024 Classroom Assessment Conference Registration Open

By Nathan Dadey posted 06-17-2024
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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 ...
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Updates and Opportunities Fall 2020

By Megan Welsh posted 12-14-2020
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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, ...
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Articles Fall 2020

By Megan Welsh posted 12-14-2020
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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 ...
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SIGIMIE Section Fall 2020

By Megan Welsh posted 12-14-2020
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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” ...
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The Certainty of the Standards in Uncertain Times

By Megan Welsh posted 12-13-2020
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Vince Verges, Florida Department of Education Uncertain Times Then Many years ago in my former life as a Naval Flight Officer, I learned how valuable standard procedures can be when things get chaotic. In 1992, I was a navigator aboard a four-person tactical Navy jet that experienced problems over the Olympic National forest in a very remote part of Washington state. We ended up ejecting over that forest, and while everyone survived, I suffered the loss of my left hand during the ejection. I ended up dangling from a tree for a short while before somehow getting myself down, and then had to tend to my wounds for the next few hours before a Navy search and ...
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Newsletter Sensitivity Reviews: Introducing Sandra Sweeney

By Megan Welsh posted 12-11-2020
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I am happy to announce that the newsletter is piloting a process for conducting sensitivity reviews to ensure that newsletter content is respectful of the full membership. The goal of the reviews is to improve communication by avoiding language that could cause unintentional harm to underrepresented groups, such as racial minorities, members of the LGBTQ community, members with disabilities, immigrants, and women. The process involves sending work to a reviewer who reads articles and attempts to identify any terms that some readers might find offensive or upsetting. If such language is identified, the reviewer alerts the newsletter editor who rereads the ...
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NCME Fitness Walk/Run Corner (Fall 2020)

By Megan Welsh posted 12-11-2020
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Katherine Furgol Castellano, Jill R. van den Heuvel, and Brian French for the NCME Fitness Walk/Run We missed connecting with everyone at the NCME walk/run event this year. We take you on a memory stroll with our collage from 2010 to 2019. We have vivid memories of our events from the cool morning air of the Denver route, to the crowded streets of the Philly course, to the few of us, including a baby, who braved the driving cold rain in New York. We treasure those early mornings of laughter, community conversations, and connecting with friends. We hope you are well and healthy. We look forward to our next walk/run together. Be and move well.
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Back to School 2020: An Unprecedented Time for Assessment

By Megan Welsh posted 11-30-2020
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Laurie Laughlin Davis & Stephanie Lawkins, Curriculum Associates Curriculum Associates serves approximately 30% of US students in grades K-8 with reading and math curriculum and assessments designed to inform instruction. Data collected so far this school year offer insights about how students are doing in light of changes to schooling since the pandemic began – and raise questions about at-home testing. The i-Ready Diagnostic is an online, criterion-referenced computer adaptive assessment that is administered three times a year, beginning in the Fall, to inform instructional decisions and instructional pathways. Early this summer, ...
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Publications Committee Update (Fall 2020): Kadriye Ercikan Book Series Editor

By Megan Welsh posted 11-30-2020
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The NCME Publications Committee is excited to announce that Kadriye Ercikan has been selected as the editor of the NCME Applications of Educational Measurement and Assessment Book Series from April 2021 through April 2026. Dr. Ercikan is Vice President of Psychometrics, Statistics and Data Sciences at ETS and CEO and President at ETS Canada. She brings a wealth of experience editing books and special issues of journals and authoring book chapters and journal articles. More information on the NCME Book Series can be found here: https://www.ncme.org/publications/book-series .
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An update from the Contemporary Issues in Scaling, Linking, and Equating (SLE) SIGIMIE (Fall 2020)

By Megan Welsh posted 10-10-2020
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Jaime Malatesta, University of Iowa, and Stella Kim, UNC Charlotte The SLE SIGIMIE focuses on evolving measurement issues related scaling, linking and equating. We encourage scholarly development by connecting professionals from diverse backgrounds to discuss and take action on measurement issues associated with scaling, linking, and equating. This past August, the SLE SIGIMIE hosted their first official event with a webinar featuring Dr. Michael Kolen’s talk on the history of test equating methods and practices through 1985. This was the first of several planned online webinars to be hosted by the SLE SIGIMIE. Also underway are the following initiatives: ...
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JEM Update (Fall 2020)

By Megan Welsh posted 10-10-2020
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Sandip Sinharay, ETS Dear JEM Readers, I sincerely hope that you and your family are all safe and sound. This JEM issue is being published at a time when the world is going through an unprecedented crisis due to the COVID19 pandemic and most of you are probably affected one way or another by the pandemic. The testing industry is being severely impacted by the pandemic as well. The long-term impact of COVID19 on educational measurement will be the focus of multiple short manuscripts that will be published in the Fall 2020 issue of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice (EMIP), JEM’s sister journal. This JEM issue includes eight articles on a wide ...
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