2020 Significant Award: Sociocognitive Foundations of Educational Measurement

• In Event: AERA Division D Invited Session for 2019 and 2020 Awardees

Abstract

Several developments challenge the field of educational measurement today: increasingly diverse student populations, an improved understanding of how people develop capabilities, and new technologies for interactive digital assessments. Sociocognitive Foundations of Educational Measurement integrates recent advances in educational measurement and cognitive, social, and educational psychology to provide an innovative sociocognitive (SC) perspective on educational measurement and assessment. This presentation shares highlights of the volume:
1. An overview of an SC perspective.
2. Reconception of assessment design, interpretation, and use arguments from an SC perspective.
3. Reconception of between-persons models, variables, and probability-based reasoning.
4. Re-examination of reliability, validity, comparability, generalizability, and fairness.
5. Re-interpretation of classical test theory, item response theory, Bayesian inference networks, cognitive diagnosis models, and generalizability theory.
6. Implications for assessment in diverse populations.
7. Implications for challenges including higher-order skills, complex performance tasks, automated scoring, and interactive assessments such as games and simulations.
8. A viewpoint on the nature of measurement in educational measurement.

Robert Mislevy is the Frederic M. Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics at ETS, and emeritus professor at the University of Maryland.  Dr. Mislevy's research applies developments in technology, statistical methods, and learning science to practical problems in assessment.  His projects include an evidence-centered framework for assessment design (ECD), the plausible values methodology used in the National Assessment for Educational Progress, and collaborations with the Cisco Networking Academy on simulation-based assessment and GlassLab on game-based assessment.

Author

• Robert J. Mislevy, retired