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National Academy of Education Releases New Report: Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:07:28 +0000

National Academy of Education Releases New Report: Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/23/2024 - 12:07

A new volume released by the National Academy of Education (NAEd) this month, Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems, "expands upon our understanding of balanced assessment systems and provides critical guidance to researchers and practitioners". Many CADRE partners contributed to this volume, including Faculty Partner Lorrie Shepard who participated on the steering committee, CADRE Associate Director Elena Diaz-Bilello who was a lead author for chapter six, and Faculty Affiliate Erin Furtak who co-authored chapter four.

"Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems explores the history of these assessment systems and reimagines their use by centering equitable and ambitious teaching and learning. In doing so, the volume provides guidance to state and local educational agencies, as well as schools and teachers, regarding how to (1) foster and maintain a culture of productive assessment use to improve ambitious and equitable teaching and learning at the classroom level; (2) design policy, professional learning, and other local systems necessary to implement balanced assessment systems; and (3) implement processes to use aggregate data to continually improve the assessment system itself to better serve all students, especially those most disenfranchised." — National Academy of Education

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A new volume released by the National Academy of Education (NAEd) this month, Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems, "expands upon our understanding of balanced assessment systems and provides critical guidance to researchers and practitioners". Many CADRE partners contributed to this volume, including Faculty Partner Lorrie Shepard who participated on the steering committee, CADRE Associate Director Elena Diaz-Bilello who was a lead author for chapter six, and Faculty Affiliate Erin Furtak who co-authored chapter four.

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Lorrie Shepard receives 2024 Women in Measurement Leadership Award

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Lorrie Shepard receives 2024 Women in Measurement Leadership Award Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/23/2024 - 11:56

The Women in Measurement Board of Directors honored Faculty Partner Lorrie Shepard with the 2024 Women in Measurement Leadership Award this April. The Women in Measurement Leadership Award is an annual honor given to a leader in the field who has contributed significantly to advancing the mission of Women in Measurement through her work. Awardees have demonstrated outstanding commitment to advancing gender and racial equity in the field through mentoring, research, leadership, or outreach.

Founded in 2020, the Women in Measurement group's mission is to advance gender and racial equity in educational measurement leadership. They amplify the diverse voices of all women and provide structures of support for career advancement.

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The Women in Measurement Board of Directors honored Faculty Partner Lorrie Shepard with the 2024 Women in Measurement Leadership Award this April. The Women in Measurement Leadership Award is an annual honor given to a leader in the field who has contributed significantly to advancing the mission of Women in Measurement through her work.

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Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences

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Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/09/2022 - 15:02

In this new book by Derek Briggs, Director of CADRE and current President of NCME, Briggs explores how and on what basis we have come to use the terminology of measurement in support of inferences about learning and academic achievement.

Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences explores the assessment and measurement of nonphysical attributes that define human beings: abilities, personalities, attitudes, dispositions, and values.

The proposition that human attributes are measurable remains controversial, as do the ideas and innovations of the six historical figures—Gustav Fechner, Francis Galton, Alfred Binet, Charles Spearman, Louis Thurstone, and S. S. Stevens—at the heart of this book. Across 10 rich, elaborative chapters, readers are introduced to the origins of educational and psychological scaling, mental testing, classical test theory, factor analysis, and diagnostic classification and to controversies spanning the quantity objection, the role of measurement in promoting eugenics, theories of intelligence, the measurement of attitudes, and beyond.

Graduate students, researchers, and professionals in educational measurement and psychometrics will emerge with a deeper appreciation for both the challenges and the affordances of measurement in quantitative research.

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