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The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing is a set of testing standards developed jointly by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
Educational Testing Service (ETS), founded in 1947, is the world's largest private educational testing and assessment organization. [3] It is headquartered in Lawrence Township , New Jersey , but has a Princeton address.
The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation is an American/Canadian based Standards Developer Organization (SDO). The Joint Committee, created in 1975, represents a coalition of major professional associations formed in 1975 to develop evaluation standards and improve the quality of standardized evaluation .
American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council for Measurement in Education. (2014). Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association. Bennett, Randy Elliot (March 2015). "The Changing Nature of Educational Assessment".
Randy Elliot Bennett is an American educational researcher who specializes in educational assessment. He is currently the Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. His research and writing focus on bringing together advances in cognitive science, technology, and measurement to improve ...
GED Testing Service is a joint venture of the American Council on Education, which started the GED program in 1942. The American Council on Education , in Washington, D.C. (U.S.), which owns the GED trademark , coined the initialism to identify "tests of general equivalency development" that measure proficiency in science, mathematics, social ...
In 1975, an advisory council of the emerging ITC met to draft a constitution and agree on the first initiatives, including a public survey of test attitudes. [6] The ITC was officially "born" in 1976, during the Congress of the International Union of Psychological Sciences (IUPsyS), where its constitution was provisionally approved.
This charge was most recently renewed in 1996 when CSE successfully competed for the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), receiving a five-year, [clarification needed] $13.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). [2]