The goal of Research & Practice in Assessment is to serve the assessment community as an online journal focusing on higher education assessment.  It is dedicated to the advancement of scholarly discussion amongst researchers and practitioners in this evolving field.  The journal originated from the Board of the Virginia Assessment Group, one of the oldest continuing professional higher education assessment organizations in the United States.  Research & Practice in Assessment is a peer-reviewed publication that uses a double-blind review process.  Approximately fifty percent of submissions are accepted for issues that are published twice annually.

All manuscripts submitted to Research & Practice in Assessment should be related to various higher education assessment themes, and adopt either an assessment measurement or an assessment policy/foundations framework:

Assessment Measurement: a) instrument design, b) validity and reliability, c) advanced quantitative design, d) advanced qualitative design

Assessment Policy/Foundations: a) accreditation, b) best practices, c) social and cultural context, d) historical and philosophical context, e) political and economic context

Data Needed for Improving Productivity Measurement in Higher Education

William F. Massy, Teresa A. Sullivan and Christopher D. Mackie

Review of “Good Education in an Age of Measurement”

Brian W. Lagotte

For Tests that are Predictively Powerful and Without Social Prejudice

Joseph A. Soares

Does it Matter How Data Are Collected? A Comparison of Testing Conditions and the Implications for Validity

Carol L. Barry and Sara J. Finney