Accessibility and Inclusion - Covers inclusive methods across content development and candidate experience, including stakeholder considerations, accessibility and accommodations, and how digital and AI-enabled tools can expand access while maintaining fairness and validity.
Assessment for Education (Pre-k to Higher Ed) - Explores technologies, evidence-based methods, and practices that enhance assessment across Pre-K through higher education. Focus on approaches that inform and adapt instruction in real time across digital, hybrid, and instructor-led environments, including adaptive systems, formative and summative assessment, accessibility, and AI-supported feedback. Sessions should highlight practical applications, research, and implementation insights that support responsiv
Business Strategies - Focus on the business of testing, including branding, marketing, customer development, digital transformation, and communication strategies to evolve credentialing and assessment programs in technology-enabled environments.
Delivery and Candidate Experience - Explores test delivery models, proctoring, and platform innovation, including remote and global delivery. Emphasizes candidate experience throughout their journey including preparation, delivery, reporting, and strategies to help candidates reduce test anxiety.
Design, Development, and Psychometrics - Focuses on assessment design, psychometric models, item development, new assessment approaches, AI-assisted authoring, standard setting, and job analysis, along with SME engagement and development.
Security - Covers fraud prevention, detection, and enforcement; anomalous testing behavior; data protection and privacy; forensics; and the use of analytics and advanced technologies to mitigate threats.
Skills, Credentialing, and Workforce Alignment - Covers certifications, microcredentials, and other approaches to validating skills, including skills frameworks, workforce alignment, lifelong learning models, and technology-enabled methods of demonstrating capability.
Trust, Ethics, and Policy in Assessment - Examines ethics, legislation, regulation, and policy shaping responsible testing practices, including data governance, transparency, fairness, and the responsible use of AI and emerging technologies.
Select all that apply. You are not guaranteed to be assigned to these topics.