NCME Mission
The mission of NCME states that the organization is incorporated exclusively for scientific, educational, literary, and charitable purposes. Its purposes shall include:
Encouragement of scholarly efforts to: Advance the science of measurement in the field of education; improve measurement instruments and procedures for their administration, scoring, interpretation, and use; and improve applications of measurement in assessment of individuals and evaluations of educational programs.
Dissemination of knowledge about: Theory, techniques, and instrumentation available for measurement of educationally relevant human, institutional, and social characteristics; procedures appropriate to the interpretation and use of such techniques and instruments; and applications of educational measurement in individual and group evaluation studies.