Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to have this opportunity to welcome all of you to the new NCME Website. The website has been under construction for a little more than two years. The project was initiated by the NCME Board in the fall of 2009 and has progressed quickly under the leadership of Kris Waltman (Chair of the Website Committee), Patrick Meyer (co-Chair of the Website Committee) and John Willse (Website Content Editor). Kris, Patrick, and John, along with the Website Committee members (Emily Lai, Michael Finger, Joy Matthews-Lopez, Chris Domaleski, Ye Tong, April Zenisky, and Rosemary Reshetar), have worked extremely hard to provide you with an attractive, easy to use, informative tool that we hope you will take advantage of frequently. Please take the time now to visit some of the new areas of the website and experience firsthand the revisions and new additions.
Some exciting new features of this website include a redesigned home page and an expanded Resource Center. The Resource Center should be useful to NCME members, graduate students in measurement, and less technical audiences with an interest in assessment and measurement (see the new Glossary of measurement terms).
In addition to the new components of the website, regular features of the website have been redesigned to provide you with easier access and more information. Try out our new search tool for finding documents with specific content. Most of these documents have been available on the website, but now they should be easier to find. Take advantage of the new website to learn more about what NCME has been up to (see the latest issue of the NCME Newsletter), to get updates about the 2012 Annual Meeting, or more about summer intern opportunities; you will find all of this information on the new website. On behalf of all of the members of NCME, I would like to give Kris, Patrick, John, and the Website Committee a hardy thank you and congratulate them for a job well done.
Linda Cook, President, NCME