NCME, together with 19 other scholarly and professional societies representing more than 85,000 individual members, today filed a formal comment urging the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to withdraw its proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance”, calling it “unlawful, unworkable, and would cause serious and in many cases irreversible harm to American…
On April 24, 2025, NCME and co-plaintiffs the National Academy of Education filed a suit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to reduce its force and undermine the quality and availability of measurement data. On May 2, we filed a motion for a preliminary injunction that would have granted immediate relief. Preliminary injunctions are…
Wilson, M. (2017, March). NCME Newsletter, 25(1), 2. In the previous three president’s messages, I have (a) made a case for the importance of classroom assessment as a site for educational measurement research and development and as a principal context in which educational measurement can be a positive influence for educational success, (b) delineated two…
Wilson, M. (2016, December). NCME Newsletter, 24(4), 1-4. In the previous two president’s messages, I have (a) made a case for the importance of classroom assessment as a site for educational measurement research and development and as a principal context in which educational measurement can be a positive influence for educational success, and (b) delineated…
Wilson, M. (2016, September). NCME Newsletter, 24(3), 1-3. In the previous president’s message, I made a case for the importance of classroom assessment as a site for educational measurement research and development and as a principal context in which educational measurement can be a positive influence for educational success. (See the June NCME Newsletter [vol….
Wilson, M. (2016, June). NCME Newsletter, 24(2), 2-3. As professionals involved in measurement in education, we mainly focus on the development and use of various forms of tests and assessments. Much of the funding that is used to develop such tests comes, ultimately, from the decisions of policy makers in education, principally leaders of state…