NCME
NCME is an organization that is incorporated exclusively for scientific, educational, literary, and charitable purposes. Its purposes 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;
- 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;
- Applications of educational measurement in individual and group evaluation studies.