Neal Kingston Editor

Neal Kingston is the Director of the Achievement and Assessment Institute, Co-Director of the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, and Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Kansas. He has managed all aspects of the educational testing process for both general and alternate assessments, including as an Executive Director at Educational Testing Service, Associate Commissioner for Curriculum and Assessment at the Kentucky Department of Education, Senior Vice President at Measured Progress, Vice President and General Manager at CTB/McGraw-Hill, and Director of CETE at the University of Kansas. He has published and presented more than 100 articles, papers, and book chapters on assessment. Amy Clark is a Research Associate in psychometrics at the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas. She began her career as a classroom teacher and received both her M.S and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Kansas specializing in Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics. Her research interests include exploring potential threats to validity, accountability issues, and diagnostic assessment.