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We are excited to announce that the proposal submission portal for the 2026 NCME Annual Meeting is now open! Proposals will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. PDT on Friday, September 12, 2025. Learn more: ncme.org/events/event-descri… #NCME2026

New from the NCME Career Center: Senior Efficacy Research and Psychometrics Analyst, Khan Kids (PreK – 2nd Grade), Khan Academy More: buff.ly/vnBwvVq

A special issue of EM:IP honors colleague Bob Mislevy, guest edited by Randy Bennett, celebrating his influence, from large-scale assessment and validity to Bayesian networks, sociocognitive foundations, and computational psychometrics. 👉️ buff.ly/mNSTOO0 #EMIP #NCME

🏅 Nominations are now open through January 8 for NCME 2027 Awards, providing an opportunity to recognize the good work and ideas contributed by outstanding individuals within our organization. 👉️ buff.ly/yuQiUUv

Last chance! This year’s Nominating Committee requests the nominations of fellow NCME members to set the election slate for three-year terms for the NCME Board of Directors. Nominations are due by October 30! 👉️ buff.ly/dAjtAeM

📕 A recent Journal of Educational Measurement article suggests that second-order DCMs with appropriate constraints may offer a practical way to support both growth measurement and diagnostic classification within operational assessment systems. 👉 buff.ly/o3yTmR3

NCME has joined 19 scientific, statistical, and professional organizations in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick urging the Department to restore key protections to its Scientific Integrity Policy. 👉️ buff.ly/Ag5sq2E

Stay informed of what’s happening at NCME, including important, upcoming online programs, and more! 👉️ buff.ly/QB9oBRg

NCME’ Committee on Informing Assessment Policy is pleased to co-host a virtual feedback session with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), led by Ben Erwin, CCSSO’s Director of Assessment and Accountability. 🗓️ November 6, 11 a.m. Eastern 👉 buff.ly/TQw8UA8

It's time! This year’s Nominating Committee requests the nominations of fellow NCME members to set the election slate for three-year terms for the NCME Board of Directors. Nominations are due by October 30! 👉️ buff.ly/dAjtAeM

NCME is now seeking the next Editor-in-Chief of EM:IP—someone interested in helping shape those conversations and guide the journal through its next chapter. 👉️ buff.ly/PVzlrol

Please join us in welcoming Carl Setzer, Director of Psychometrics and Research at AICPA, as the new Visuals Editor for Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice (EM:IP)! 👉️ buff.ly/8oo5RIH

Thanks to the generosity of its donors, the Endowment now exceeds $150,000. At this milestone, the NCME Board and the new NCME Endowment Committee are proud to announce the three inaugural recipients of NCME Endowment funding. 👉️ buff.ly/EViaA6y

Mirrors and Windows, developed by Brian Levanthal, is a video interview series highlighting the journeys of those working in educational measurement and assessment. This week, we are joined by Dr. Kyndra Middleton! 📹️ buff.ly/VVwvwyJ 👉 buff.ly/ULd2SVb

📕 A recent Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices article shows the potential of language models to support scalable, accurate item-to-standards alignment in large-scale assessment development. 👉 buff.ly/2Ya1cpM

The GenAI Evidence Hub, which was developed through AIME in 2025 to synthesize research methods & results evaluating the validity, reliability and fairness of GenAI in three assessment domains. 🗓️ October 22, 2 p.m. Eastern 👉 buff.ly/9SUVDit

Join the Educators of Measurement SIGIMIE for an October Coffee Hour featuring the editors of the Instructional Topics in Educational Measurement Series and Teaching Educational Research Methods. 🗓️ October 21, 1 p.m. Eastern 👉 buff.ly/vk4PfMU

This panel brings together three NCME journal editors and a senior AI researcher to explore what AI developments mean for the field. 🗓️ October 21, 1 p.m. Eastern 👉 buff.ly/MoRjSnj

Are you a graduate student working on a writing project? Join us for a supportive one-hour weekly writing hangouts in October and November, designed to help you stay focused, accountable, and connected with fellow scholars. 👉️ bit.ly/4yLCI4R

🏅 Nominations are now open through January 8 for NCME 2027 Awards, providing an opportunity to recognize the good work and ideas contributed by outstanding individuals within our organization. 👉️ buff.ly/yuQiUUv

As part of the NCME Endowment Matching Challenge, past presidents will be matching donations and reflecting on their presidency and the future of NCME. This month, we hear from Derek Briggs, NCME President from 2021 to 2022. 👉️ buff.ly/D4MWDQW