Standardized assessments and surveys play an important role in shaping educational decisions around the globe and at multiple levels – from classrooms to local, regional, and national governance.
The Large-Scale Assessment (LSA) SIGIMIE is focused on how results from assessments including licensure exams, K-12 accountability assessments, international assessments, and others can be better leveraged to inform thoughtful, equitable, and evidence-based decision-making. We do this by looking at three aspects of LSAs: instrumentalization, test use/misuse, and concepts of fairness.
We are particularly interested in how the LSA SIGIMIE can inform assessment policy. This requires understanding how a range of individuals engage with and respond to assessments. This SIGIMIE aims to identify ways to improve design and development practices, support appropriate interpretation of results, and recognize limits of test use through understanding the strengths and limitations of using such tools with a variety of populations.