Traditionally, states have evaluated student performance using end-of-year summative assessments, which produce cut scores that classify examinees into broad performance categories, such as, “Nearing Proficiency” or “Proficient.” Such classifications [...]
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) recently released its 2022 Salary Survey focused on the latest income and employment-related trends for industrial-organizational psychologists. HumRRO analyzed the data and [...]
Meta-analyses have overestimated both the primacy of cognitive ability and the validity of a wide range of predictors within the personnel selection arena, according to groundbreaking research led by [...]
Computer adaptive testing (CAT) has emerged as a dominant form of test administration to improve test security and obtain more precise estimates of examinee ability. Relative to static test [...]
Conducting impactful research that makes a difference in the real world is a career-long passion for HumRRO’s Deirdre Knapp, Ph.D., helping to explain why she was asked to be a [...]
The ongoing pandemic has sharply accelerated a trend towards remotely proctored assessments. Once rarely seen outside of university examination and software certification settings, remote proctoring is now a popular [...]
Over the past several years, HumRRO has played an important role in the effort to fight financial crime by developing a suite of certifications for the Association of Certified Anti-Money [...]
States have begun to shift focus from annual summative assessments for students toward shorter assessments that are administered periodically throughout the school year. The Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) [...]
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we interact with subject matter experts (SMEs), as we’ve had to transition our in-person workshops and focus groups to virtual settings. Although [...]
“Living Our Values” is the theme of the 2019-2020 HumRRO Biennial Report. In preparing the report, we set out to demonstrate how our five core values—results-oriented, quality, innovations, solutions, and [...]
