Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking the foundations of assessment
  • The nature of assessment and reasoning from evidence
  • The scientific foundations of assessment
  • Advances in the sciences of thinking and learning
  • Contributions of measurement and statistical modeling to assessment
  • Assessment design and use: principles, practices and future directions
  • Implications of the new foundations for asessment design
  • Assessment in practice
  • Information technologies: opportunities for advancing educational assessment
  • Implications and recommendations for research, policy and practice
  • Biographical sketches.