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CRESST researchers publish well over 150 articles every year, primarily in distinguished peer-reviewed journals but also in more practice- or policy-focused publications such as Educational Leadership, Education Next, Phi Delta Kappan magazine, the American School Board Journal, and the National PTA's Our Children magazine.
CRESST partners publish scholarly books and are regularly quoted for their expertise in America's newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, or Chicago Tribune.
Our researchers serve as editors, co-editors, and reviewers for a number of national journals including the journal Educational Assessment.
CRESST Co-Director Publishes in New Book
Together with other distinguished measurement experts, CRESST Co-Director Li Cai has published a major chapter in a recently published book edited by Michael Edwards from Ohio State University and Robert McCallum from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Cai's new chapter pays homage to Michael Brown, one of the giants in the improvement of latent variable models.
Click here for more information about Co-Director Li Cai's new chapter published in "Current Topics in the Theory and Application of Latent Variable Models."
About CRESST - A New YouTube Video for the New Year
From sophisticated program evaluations to games and simulation-based instruction, the CRESST mission continues to expand in order to meet the rigorous learning demands of the 21st Century.
Click here to view a new 2-minute YouTube video that provides a brief overview of innovative CRESST research and development.
Click here to view a color brochure describing many CRESST projects and center expertise.
Heritage Publishes Chapter in New Book
CRESST Assistant Director for Professional Development Margaret Heritage recently published a book chapter in the handbook of "Research on Classroom Assessment," edited by James McMillan from Virginia Commonwealth University.
In her chapter, "Gathering Evidence of Student Understanding," Heritage identifies basic dimensions of evidence collection to support formative assessment practice and student learning. She describes and encourages multiple strategies for teachers to use in their evidence gathering process.
Paul Black, Dylan Wiliam, Suzanne Lane, and Susan Brookhart are among the other distinguished authors who have contributed to this new handbook.
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CRESST Research In Leading Journal
CRESST Co-Director Li Cai is co-author of two new measurement studies published in the prestigious journal Educational and Psychological Measurement. Both are helping to make improvements in item response theory.
CRESST Developing Tools to Improve Training and Assessment in the Military and Beyond
For more than a decade, CRESST has been involved in assisting the United States military with training tools such as training assessments, simulation-based formative and summative evaluations of recruit and officer performance, games, and intelligent tutoring systems to improve performance.
More recently, researchers are working on developing assessments of complex tasks for naval officers and for K-12 classrooms.
Click here to read a full article about this research in Ampersand, the online magazine of the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
Kerr and Chung Publish in Journal of Educational Data Mining
In a newly published journal article, center researchers Deirdre Kerr and Greg Chung describe how they used cluster analysis to evaluate student performance on educational games. Such analyses are difficult due to the vast amounts of data generated by games and simulations compared to traditional multiple choice tests.
Click here to download the abstract of the Kerr and Chung article, "Identifying Key Features of Student Performance in Educational Video Games and Simulations through Cluster Analysis."
Click here to download the full article.
