This book brings together psychometric, cognitive science, policy, and content domain perspectives on new approaches to educational assessment -- in particular, constructed response, performance testing, and portfolio assessment. These new assessment approaches -- a full range of alternatives to traditional multiple-choice tests -- are useful in all types of large-scale testing programs, including educational admissions, school accountability, and placement. This book's multi-disciplinary perspective identifies the potential advantages and pitfalls of these new assessment forms, as well as the critical research questions that must be addressed if these assessment methods are to benefit education.

"Bennett and Ward have compiled a set of generally excellent essays from conference presentations and by invitation that address issues in constructed or performance-based testing....includes practical, technical, and theoretical issues in constructed testing....Recommended. Appropriate for graduate students in educational or psychological measurement or faculty working in that field."—CHOICE"...the chapters span a broad range of psychometric and social policy perspectives, there is something here for everybody....[they] provide a useful compilation of reference material and offer frameworks for logical, scientific developments that advance assessment..."—Contemporary Psychology