Joint Committee Co-Chairs Selected for the Revision of the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing

The Management Committee of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (the Standards) and its sponsoring organizations – the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) announce the selection of Drs. Andres (Andy) De Los Reyes and Ye Tong as the co-chairs of the Joint Committee for the Revision of the 2014 Standards Testing Standards.

Dr. Andres (Andy) De Los Reyes is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland. Dr. De Los Reyes is past chair of APA’s Board of Educational Affairs (BEA), current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical and Child Adolescent Psychology, and a longstanding member of APA. His expertise is in psychometrics and clinical assessment of diverse populations in developmental and mental health contexts. He received his PhD in Clinical Science from Yale University.

Dr. Ye Tong is the Senior Vice President of Assessment Operations at the National Board of Medical Examiners, past president of NCME, longstanding member of NCME and AERA, and a founding member of Women in Measurement. Dr. Tong is a national recognized expert in measurement, with publications and presentations in areas such as equity in assessment, equating, computer adaptive testing, and educational policy. She received her PhD in Educational Measurement and Statistics from the University of Iowa.

The selection process incorporated member input from all sponsoring organizations that informed the thorough set of selection criteria that was applied. Moving forward, the Management Committee will work with Drs. Tong and De Los Reyes to select Joint Committee members. The Joint Committee will then engage in a multi-stage revision process, one that will ultimately make the revised Standards more timely, relevant, accessible, and therefore useful in today's context of educational and psychological testing.