Randy Bennett

Assessment Innovation Matters

Principal

Randy Bennett is Principal with Assessment Innovation Matters. He was the Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation in the Research division at ETS from 2010 to 2025. His work has focused on integrating advances in cognitive science, technology, and measurement to design equitable assessment approaches intended to have positive impact on teaching and learning. His most recent work centers on personalizing assessment through generative AI and non-AI means so as to account better for the cultural, social, and other relevant differences that individuals bring to assessment. From 1999 to 2005, he directed the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Technology-Based Assessment project, which included the first administration of computer-based performance assessments to nationally representative samples of school students and the first use of logfile data in such samples to measure problem-solving processes. From 2007 to 2016, he directed the CBAL research initiative, which focused on creating theory-based summative and formative assessment intended to model good teaching and learning practice. He is a past president of the International Association for Educational Assessment, an organization constituted of governmental and nongovernmental nonprofit measurement organizations throughout the world, and a past president of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). He is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and an elected member of the National Academy of Education, as well as recipient of the NCME Bradley Hanson Contributions to Educational Measurement Award, the Teachers College Distinguished Alumni Award, the AERA E. F. Lindquist Award, and the AERA Cognition and Assessment SIG Outstanding Contribution to Research in Cognition and Assessment award.