2023 E. F. Lindquist Award Lecture: Fulfilling A Vision of Assessment in Support of Educational and Societal Good: Progress Made and Miles Still to Go

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This presentation begins by noting some important thoughts offered by E.F. Lindquist and Robert Glaser, two 20th century intellectual giants and educational assessment pioneers, regarding the future of educational assessment and its capabilities for supporting educational and societal good. Both envisioned assessments measuring valued educational goals and outcomes connected to curriculum, classroom instruction, and student learning. They foresaw advances in technology and research on human learning as having major impacts on the design, interpretation, and use of assessments. Using the dawn of the 21st century as a benchmark, we will consider what we knew then relative to that vision, what we know now, and the progress made in fulfilling the vision. While considerable progress has been made, the field of educational assessment faces many challenges, some old and many new, to fulfill the promise foretold years ago. We will outline some of the work remaining to be done, why it is essential, and the multiple forms of capital needed to adequately pursue development, implementation, and use of the next generation of assessments. Such assessments are essential to attain a 21st century vision of educational assessment in support of the equitable and ambitious forms of teaching and learning that society now demands of all its youth.

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Chair

• Dianne Henderson, ACT

Presenter

• James W. Pellegrino, University of Illinois at Chicago