Helping school systems make measurement and assessment work for everyone they serve.
August 2026
Before you approve an assessment system, renew a contract, or explain a score to a family, you need to know what the evidence can support. What does the measure capture? What does it miss? What happens when the design does not fit a student's disability, home language, or way of showing what they know? Those questions surface in board meetings, professional development, IEP and 504 meetings, and procurement reviews. In many districts, the same few people face several questions at once.
These decisions affect students, families, educators, and taxpayers. MeasurementWorks starts with a quality bar you can defend before a decision reaches a classroom, a family, or a board. Each issue brings reports, policy guides, case studies, and tools to the next conversation you lead.
We start with what AI might change and what it must leave intact. Responsible Assessment in the AI Era, from the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and ETS, keeps validity, fairness, transparency, and trust in view as richer evidence emerges. The Duolingo English Test Responsible AI Transparency Report offers a public record of those commitments. School District AI Policy in Service of Learners, from the EDSAFE AI Alliance, brings those commitments into district practice.
Purpose means asking whose decisions assessment should improve and what educators, families, and learners need from the evidence. The Innovating for Whom We Measure webinar starts with those users. Mind Frames for Improving Educational Assessment and Achievement Network's case study, From Evaluation to Impact, show how evidence can shape teaching while there is still time to act.
Access by Design, Prioritizing Students with Disabilities in AI Policy, and the older-readers literacy case study center learner variation. They ask how to make evidence usable for the learner in front of you. Screen Value, Not Screen Time and the ITC/ATP Guidelines for Technology-Based Assessment tie technology choices to classroom use, privacy, and defensible measurement.
E-Rate and changing grant rules raise a policy question: what infrastructure and funding must remain in place for students to benefit?
Each month this fall, MeasurementWorks will curate current reporting, resources, and research on educational measurement, assessment, and AI-powered innovation for your next board meeting, procurement review, or team conversation.
We thank the authors, researchers, district practitioners, and policy teams who publish methods, name limits, and show their work. What would you need to know before asking a student, family, educator, or board member to trust and use a measure?
Dr. Eric Tucker and the Study Group