User-Centered Assessment Design

Madhabi Chatterji, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Measurement, Evaluation, and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she founded the Assessment and Evaluation Research Initiative (AERI). AERI is dedicated to promoting meaningful use of assessment and evaluation information to improve equity and the quality of practices and policies in education, psychology, and the health professions. An award-winning, internationally recognized methodologist and educationist, Dr. Chatterji has taught and mentored numerous doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers over her 30-plus-year career. She is author or editor of more than 100 publications and is a Fellow of the National Education Policy Center. A public intellectual, Dr. Chatterji has spoken out frequently on the limitations of large-scale tests and the adverse social consequences of misused high-stakes educational assessments. Her longstanding scholarly interests lie in instrument design, validation, validity, and test use issues; improving program and policy evaluation designs to support evidence-based practices; and closing learning gaps with proximal diagnostic assessments.

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