ABSTRACT

Assessment engineering (AE) is a new way to approach the entire process of designing and developing tests, items and score scales (Luecht, 2006a, 2006b, 2007a, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011). It is not a specific technology, nor is it a psychometric model. Rather, AE is a comprehensive framework for re-conceptualizing and then designing and implementing in a principled way an end-to-end system for efficiently and consistently building an enormous number of items and tests supporting one or more validly score scales.