Principled Approaches to Assessment Design, Development, and Implementation

Abstract

In this chapter we review five principled approaches to assessment design, development, and implementation: evidence-centered design, cognitive design systems, assessment engineering, the BEAR assessment system, and principled design for efficacy. We propose five foundational elements and an organizing element that can be used to characterize principled approaches. We demonstrate that all five approaches are similarly principled, but reflect principled elements in their own unique ways, and how they are similar to, and different from, conventional approaches to principled test design. Finally, we discuss practical challenges and considerations for selecting a principled approach and end with speculations about the evolution of principled approaches in the future.

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