ABSTRACT
To examinees themselves and other stakeholders, test scores matter, and score reports are the mechanism by which scores and other relevant contextual information about examinee performance are communicated. This is true across testing contexts, because although testing purposes, test use and report contents may differ, at their core, score reports function to share data with users. For too many tests over too many years, the main data included on test score reports was almost exclusively the test score and other less relevant information for different users of test data (e.g., an examinee, their family members, educators) all crammed in the same report, providing visual evidence to advance the unfortunate stereotype that assessment practices were geared toward labeling each examinee as a number, and providing a lot of other uninterpretable information. Fortunately, in recent years, the situation has changed substantially.
