Psychological tests are essential tools that help psychologists make decisions about people. The Board of Assessment (BoA) of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA) has various projects aimed at improving tests and testing practices across Europe and beyond. In this presentation, we share two BoA projects. The first is the BoA’s flagship project, which focuses on tests:...
The value of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in informing evidence-based policymaking relies on the degree of precision with which population-level statistics are estimated and reported. But also, the degree to which those aggregate statistics can be meaningfully compared (e.g., country-level mean scores) and the interpretations made based on those comparisons are...
Standards play a crucial role in guiding practices in Educational and Psychological Assessment. Various professional associations continuously update guidelines to support practitioners in assessment-related processes, leading to the emergence of different approaches. However, how do these associations gather information to propose new standards? To what extent do they consider users’...
The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing have been published by the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association, and the National Council on Education since the 1950s. They are currently under revision, and the forthcoming version, is expected to be published in 2026. In this presentation, a member of the Joint Committee revising the...
