WEDS 30th October 2024
17.30-19.00 - a Zoom link is sent to participants on the day of the event. All EAG@IOE talks are recorded and can be accessed after the event.
Over our field's 100-year-plus history, standardization has been a central assumption in test theory and practice. The concept's justification turns on leveling the playing field by presenting all examinees with putatively equivalent experiences. Until relatively recently, our field has accepted that justification almost without question. In this talk, I present a case for standardization's antithesis, personalization. Interestingly, personalized assessment has important precedents within the measurement community. As intriguing are some of the divergent ways in which personalization might be realized in practice. Those ways, however, suggest a host of serious issues that will need to be addressed if personalized assessment is to avoid perpetuating past inequities and work toward the benefit of all.
