Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessment: 2021 Annual Report

Chair: Sang Eun Woo, PhD, chair

• Deborah Bandalos, PhD,
• Mariana Cherner, PhD
• Eric Y. Drogin, PhD
• Nadya Fouad, PhD
• Scott Lee Graves, PhD
• Radhika Krishnamurthy PhD
• Nathan Kuncel, PhD
• Stephen Sireci, PhD

Staff Liaison: Marianne Ernesto

Members of CPTA continued to:

• Monitor activities related to organizationally sponsored outreach and educational efforts involving the 2014 edition of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. 
• Participate in the development and revision of policy initiatives related to observers in the testing situation.  

These activities support the following APA strategic goals:

• Utilize psychology to make a positive impact on critical societal issues.
• Prepare the discipline and profession of psychology for the future.
• Elevate the public’s understanding of, regard for, and use of psychology.
• Strengthen APA’s standing as an authoritative voice for psychology.

Members of CPTA continued to monitor and participate in the standard-setting activities of the Association of Test Publishers (ATP), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), (an international standards organization whose members include various countries from around the world), and the International Test Commission (ITC) of which APA is an organizational member.

These activities support the following APA strategic goals:

• Utilize psychology to make a positive impact on critical societal issues.
• Prepare the discipline and profession of psychology for the future.
• Elevate the public’s understanding of, regard for, and use of psychology.
• Strengthen APA’s standing as an authoritative voice for psychology.

In 2021, members of CPTA completed the following projects:

• A symposium for the 2021 APA virtual convention highlighting the issues of fairness in testing for school admissions titled, Testing in School Admissions: Issues of Bias, Fairness, & Practical Utility.
• A six-part video series on issues related to the application of technology to testing and assessment titled, Technology in Testing and Assessment.

Members of the Committee also continued their participation with staff of the APA Department of Communications to develop content related to testing and assessment for publication on various APA sponsored media outlets/platforms.

These activities support the following APA strategic goals:

• Utilize psychology to make a positive impact on critical societal issues.
• Elevate the public’s understanding of, regard for, and use of psychology.
• Strengthen APA’s standing as an authoritative voice for psychology.

As a member group, CPTA continued participation in the activities of:

• The Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education (CPSE)
• The International Test Commission (ITC)
• The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE), which continued the revision of two JCSEE publications, the Personnel Evaluation Standards (in Education) and the Program Evaluation Standards.

These activities support the following APA strategic goals:

• Utilize psychology to make a positive impact on critical societal issues.
• Prepare the discipline and profession of psychology for the future.
• Elevate the public’s understanding of, regard for, and use of psychology.
• Strengthen APA’s standing as an authoritative voice for psychology.