ABSTRACT
The field of measurement has begun to interrogate the assessment practices that contribute to negative consequences for marginalized learners. However, this interrogation does not mean much if we do not make significant changes to every aspect of our assessment landscape. With the development of the Kaiapuni Assessment of Educational Outcomes (KĀʻEO), the state of Hawaiʻi has transformed the assessment landscape by leveraging policies, people, and practices to develop an assessment grounded in Hawaiian language, culture, and community. In the development of KĀʻEO, the focus on cultural and community validity (in alignment with the tenets of socioculturally responsive assessment) is a reflection of the KĀʻEO team’s work with our stakeholders, which has shifted us away from creating an assessment for communities to creating an assessment with communities. The measurement field can apply these lessons by asking the question: What if we completely reimagine the assessment development process and center community priorities within our landscape? This chapter aims to demonstrate to the field the transformative shifts that can take place to an assessment landscape when policies, people, and practices are reimagined.
