What We Do

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.

Learning and Thriving Across the Lifespan: Building on the E. W. Gordon Legacy on Affirmative Development and Equitable Education for Every Learner

• The total number of conference registrants: 700. 

• Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speech: 1,735 views as of  June 29, 2021. 

• Click on live links here to view sessions.

• Opening Ceremony

• Session I

• Session II

• Session III

• Session IV

• Reflection Sessions

• Closing Ceremony with Professor Gordon's speech

Learn more about Professor Gordon's intellectual legacy here. 

Learn more about the distinguished speakers and sessions here.