JoinEditor's roundtable: Standard-izing test items (January 2005)
American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061, one of the first organizations to focus on content standards and their role in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, is launching a new effort funded by the National Science Foundation to help science and mathematics teachers, curriculum and test developers, and education researchers meet the challenges of standards-based assessment. A detailed scope of that work and its possible applications is discussed in this article.