Activities
AERI achieves its mission through four main activities:
- Conferences and forums
- Publications, reports and policy briefs
- Sponsored research and evaluation projects
- Capacity-building institutes on selected measurement, evaluation and methodological topics for domestic and global audiences
Today, AERI pursues a proactive agenda of knowledge creation, translation, dissemination and capacity building in the assessment and evaluation sciences. A driving element in AERI’s work is the mobilization of knowledge to different academic audiences, policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders. Recent activities marking AERI’s new identity included the following.
- AERI held its Inaugural Conference in March, 2012: “Conversations on Validity”
- AERI’s second conference was held in December, 2013: “Testing Then and Now”
- AERI’s director co-facilitated its first national blog in March-May, 2014: “Assessing the Assessments "Education Week Blog 2014”
- The Inaugural AERI Institute was held in 2012. It drew over eighty participants and featured courses on standardized testing and assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, program accreditation, causal reasoning, and other methodological topics.
AERI Co-hosts the Gordon Centennial Conference
Learning and Thriving Across the Lifespan: Building on the E. W. Gordon Legacy on Affirmative Development and Equitable Education for Every Learner
AERI Co-hosts the Gordon Centennial Conference
Learning and Thriving Across the Lifespan: Building on the E. W. Gordon Legacy on Affirmative Development and Equitable Education for Every Learner
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The total number of conference registrants: 700.
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Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speech: 1,735 views as of June 29, 2021.
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Learn more about Professor Gordon's intellectual legacy here.
Learn more about the distinguished speakers and sessions here.