Remembering psychological scientist Daniel Kahneman psychologicalscience.org/observer/danie…

More measurement writing to share! The result of a 3-4 year collaboration with my colleagues Josh McGrane and Andy Maul: “On the Nature of Measurement”. This is a pre-print of our chapter in press for the 5th edition of Educational Measurement. osf.io/preprints/psya…

If you're interested in teacher feedback on student writing, here is our ambitious analysis of teacher comments on weak and strong essays. We found variations based on teacher characteristics and essay quality. Ignacio Mañez Carolina Lopera Raquel Cerdán link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Last day to submit an abstract to the Society for the Study of #Measurement in Berkeley! Derek C Briggs and Leah McClimans will be keynotes. #HPS #STS #Philosophy #PhilSci measurementsociety.org/conference/

Don't be the last one to submit your proposal! The deadline for submitting a proposal to the NCME Classroom Assessment Conference is May 3rd. It is shaping up to be a great conference! Andrew Ho Derek C Briggs @NCIEA1 NCME ncme.org/event/classroo…

Is psychometric expertise narrower, broader, or different than educational measurement expertise? We test consensus about this tomorrow at 9am at #IMPS2024 with some excellent colleagues. NCME Psychometric Society Ungated: bit.ly/ungatedtaskfor… Background: ncme.org/about/news/edu…

Out now: Derek C Briggs, Laurie Davis and I investigate differences in how much students appear to grow on a vertical scale based solely on the grade alignment of (a large number of) common items. Turns out, the differences are pretty big! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Interested in measurement? Do you like geeking out? Do you like geeking out with a good beer in beautiful Boulder? Then come to iomw.net. Deadline for proposals is December 16

Super excited to be a new member of the NAEd, genuinely thrilled.

I learned this morning that Ed Sec'y Linda McMahon assured Governor Jared Polis Jared Polis, chair of the National Governors Association, that there would be no changes to NAEP. But my reporting shows otherwise. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-n…

NCME sues to protect measurement data and research. "The law requires not only data access but data quality. For 88 years, our organization has upheld standards for valid measurements and measurement research. We do so again today.” @ncme38 #NCME25 naacpldf.org/press-release/…