Randy Bennett holds the Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation in the ETS Research Institute. His work has focused on integrating advances in cognitive science, technology, and measurement to design equitable assessment approaches intended to have positive impact on teaching and learning.
His recent work centers on explicating the idea of personalized assessments and, relatedly, assessments that are “born socio-culturally responsive,” including proposing an initial theory and provisional assessment-design principles.
He is a past president of the International Association for Educational Assessment, an organization constituted of governmental and nongovernmental nonprofit measurement organizations throughout the world, and a past president of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
He is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and an elected member of the US National Academy of Education, as well as recipient of the NCME Bradley Hanson Contributions to Educational Measurement Award, the Teachers College Columbia University Distinguished Alumni Award, the AERA E. F. Lindquist Award, and the AERA Cognition and Assessment SIG Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in Cognition and Assessment.
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