Dear NCME Colleagues: Although this month remains in my presidency, this is my last News@NCME update as president. It has now been almost a year since I established the themes that have guided my term: Continuity, Unity, and Service. I am proud to have upheld these themes, and I am prouder still to have seen all…
Dear NCME Community, As we settle into the new year, there is so much to look forward to in this great organization: 1) I am grateful to our program committee for working hard to release a preliminary program for our annual meeting, April 23-26, in Denver, Colorado. With training sessions on Wednesday, joint receptions on Thursday, award celebrations on…
Dear NCME Community, As we greet 2025, I am full of optimism for the coming year for NCME. Conference registration is open for our annual meeting at the Hilton Denver City Center, April 23-26. Representatives from over 35 academic institutions will join our NCME Presidential Summit for Educational Measurement Programs on January 9 and 13. And our 6 awards…
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…
NCME Presidential Themes for 2024-2025: Continuity, Unity, and Service Edited remarks presented at the 2024 Presidential Address, April 13, 2024Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education Colleagues, as is tradition, in my role as Vice President and President Elect, I have 5 minutes to briefly preview themes that I hope to elevate…
Fall is here now, a fall that will be unique in so many ways. I hope you all are staying healthy and that if you have school-age children like me, the kids are staying productive and adapting to school’s new normal. NCME 2020 Virtual Conference NCME held our historic virtual conference from June through September….
I have been an NCME member since 2000, when I started graduate school at Iowa. NCME been an intellectual home to me through the years, and I am so overwhelmingly excited and honored to get to serve NCME as its President for 2020 – 2021. Of course, when I said I would run for NCME…
At the time of this writing (April 6, 2020), I have only two weeks left as President of NCME. I have greatly enjoyed the honor of serving as your President, and it is somewhat sad to have my term come to an end. I am thankful my transition to Past-President is concomitant with Dr. Ye Tong’s…
Dear colleagues: Two big NCME events are coming up soon—the February Policy Seminar and of course, the Annual Meeting! I’m including information on both of these, followed by some general news items. Registration is now open for the NCME Annual Meeting April 4-8, 2019 in Toronto: Communicating with the Public about Educational Measurement Program Chairs Krista Mattern and…
When most people think of “20/20 vision” clear eyesight comes to mind. The specific definition from the American Optometric Association is “normal visual acuity (the clarity or sharpness of vision) measured at a distance of 20 feet.[1]” Their description goes on to explain, “If you have 20/20 vision, you can see clearly at 20 feet…