Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Large‐Scale Assessment and the Response to COVID‐19

• Published in: Educational measurement, issues and practice Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 10 - 18
• Main Author: Camara, Wayne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Wiley 01.09.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: admissions tests; College Admission; College Entrance Examinations; COVID-19; Educational evaluation; Educational tests & measurements; Entrance examinations; Evaluation Methods; Measurement; Pandemics; remote proctoring; School Closing; test administration; Testing Programs

In early spring 2020 the vast majority of US colleges and schools closed for the year due to COVID‐19 with no clear direction on when or how these institutions will reopen for in‐person instruction. School closures and the associated health concerns haulted large scale admissions testing and require...