Testing International Volume 42, December 2019 Gdonm Editor: Nicky Hayes International Test Contents Commission ITC President’s Message 2 PRESIDENT Kurt Geisinger Editor’s Message 3 Buros Center for Testing / University of Nebraska, USA Conference News 5 Publication and Communications Committee 7 PRESIDENT-ELECT Aletta Odendaal International Journal of Testing update 8 Stellenbosch University, South Africa Membership, Involvement & Marketing Committee 9 SECRETARY-GENERAL Paula Elosua, Universidad del Pais Vasco, San Research & Guidelines Committee 12 Sebastian, Spain Around the World: the SIP 13 TREASURER April Zenisky, University of Massachusetts Book Review: schooling across the globe 16 Amherst, USA Compêndio de Avaliação Psicológica 17 COUNCIL MEMBERS Elected Members ITC book series: new book preview 18 Anna Brown, University of Kent, United Kingdom Philippe Sonnleitner: Gamification - 3 Lessons learned 22 Neal Schmitt, Michigan State University, USA Stephen G. Sireci, University of Massachusetts Keesha Taylor: Diminishing academic cheating 26 Amherst, USA Solange Wechsler, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil Co-Opted Members Dragos Iliescu, SNSPA Bucharest, Romania Kadriye Ercikan, Educational Testing Service, USA Peter Macqueen, Compass Consulting, Australia Wayne Camra ACT Inc. Observers Samuel Greiff, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Gonggy Yan, Beijing Normal University REPRESENTATIVES IUPsyS Representative Ann Watts, IUPsyS IAAP Representative Jacques Gregoire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium EDITORS International Journal of Testing Stephen Stark, University of South Florida, USA Testing International Nicky Hayes, United Kingdom Testing International is a publication of the International Test Commission ITC President’s Message Sharing internationally has become easier Kurt Geisinger with the Internet. But face-to-face sharing continues to be best! I have seen the listing President, of invited speakers and it is a impressive list. International Test Hearing from David Bartram or Barbara Byrne Commission alone is worth the price of admission and I hope Ron Hambleton will be there; meeting him and catching his enthusiasm is equally valuable. Kurt Geisinger As a student/intern some 44 years ago, I was Buros Centre for Testing / working with a distinguished psychometrician. University of Nebraska He told me that when he was my age (at that time) he thought he had invented a new and great statistical procedure. He said he had As those of us in the northern hemisphere spent a year working on it and thought he had face the cold weather season, I for one am a new and better way to analyze data. But looking forward to the summer, and am in when he started using it, he realized he had particular looking forward to a summer re-invented principal component analysis. At highlight: the International Test Commission the time, this individual was in charge of biannual conference in Luxembourg. It is hard psychometric research at one of the major not to wax poetic or hyperbolic about the testing companies in the world. Needless to impact of the conference. I have attended say, we can all learn from others and learning the ITC conferences since 1999 when there from others from other countries is the most were two conferences organized by the fun way to do so. It can save us from wasting International Test Commission: one was a our time, but, more importantly, can help us semi-recognized conference on test learn new approaches and new techniques adaptation at Georgetown University in that may be more commonly used in the Washington, DC and the other was the official United States. One comes to realize too that ITC conference at the University of Graz in we are indeed all brothers and sisters around Graz, Austria. Both were outstanding the world; international conferences catalyze conferences—academic mountaintops (which such relationships and we can learn what life is easier to imagine in Austria than in the is like for many others. geological and political swampland of Washington, DC). And the ITC conferences In the past few months, a colleague of mine, have only become better and better. Janet Carlson, who also happens to be my wife, and I wrote a chapter on the history of When you receive this message, you may still psychological testing in North America for an have time to submit a symposium, paper, or ITC book that is being published on the history poster. I hope you do. The more different of testing around the world. I quickly came to voices the better. Testing in all its venues the understanding that American testing (clinical, educational, and industrial- would have been considerably behind where it organizational as examples) is a wonderful is today if not for work in Great Britain, profession and we should all be proud both to France, and Germany. Galton, Binet, and enjoy it and to share what we have learned Wundt, respectively, are gametes who with others. To me, that is the single brought about modern psychological testing greatest aspect of the conference. and we are all indebted to them and hundreds 2 of others! Sharing was critical around the beginning of the 20th century and it is just as important today. We can all be part of the continued development of testing. When I was an undergraduate student in Call for Nominations psychology, I had a rare opportunity. George Miller, a former American Psychological Thomas Oakland Award for Association President and a distinguished Distinguished Contributions to Testing experimental psychologist (who was famous for the “Magic Number 7 + or – 2”), came to and Assessment my campus to provide a series of lectures. I attended them and was even charged to walk The Thomas Oakland Award for Distinguished him from a couple of buildings to the next contributions to Testing and Assessment recognizes an building where he had meetings. I remember individual who has made noteworthy contributions to some of those discussions almost 50 years research or practice in educational or psychological assessment and who has had a positive impact at either later. At one point, he told me that an international level, or within their home country psychology as a social science had really had that represents a model for others to follow. Examples only two truly major contributions to include (but are not limited to): • innovative knowledge. The two were: learning and assessment formats that lead to more valid assessment testing. I might modernize his two terms • contributions to statistics or research design in test validation • improved procedures for adapting tests slightly to behavior change (learning) and across languages • improved methods for evaluating assessment (testing); neither of these word assessments used across multiple languages or cultures, changes are major ones. I believe that testing or • contributions to improved testing policies and continues to be one of the truly central foci in practices. psychology, and our work has spread into Nominators must be Full, Affiliate, or Individual business, education, and medicine to name a members of the ITC. All nominators must submit: (a) a few areas. nomination letter describing the nominee’s contributions; (b) two letters of support from two So please come to Luxembourg. This summer different countries, (c) a current copy of the nominee’s all roads lead to Luxembourg. I look forward CV, highlighting the scholarly accomplishments relevant to the nomination. to seeing you, but even more, I look forward to hearing what you have to say! Nominations should be sent to Stephen G. Sireci, Chair, Thomas Oakland Award Committee at [email protected]. Deadline for receipt of nominations: February 1, 2020. The recipient of the award receives free conference registration, and $1,000 in travel expenses to attend the conference. The award is given every second year, at the respective ITC Conference. 3 From the Editor Call for Papers Frontier Research in Educational Measurement (FREMO) will be hosted on September 9-10, 2020 at the University of Oslo, Norway. The submission system is open with submission Nicky Hayes deadline February 2. The conference website is at http://www.uio.no/fremo. Editor "Testing International" For more information, please contact Bjorn Anderson at [email protected]. Welcome to the latest issue of Testing International. As our Chairman says, we're all getting excited about our visit to Luxembourg in Call for Articles and July! All the details are on the website, so don't Announcements: forget to book in! This issue sees an interesting set of committee Testing International (TI) reports, letting us all know what has been happening behind the scenes since out last issue. Deadline for the June 2020 issue: In addition to these, we have an article about the May 15, 2020 new testing section of the SIP: the Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología, bringing together TI is the newsletter of the International Test testing professionals from across the Americas . Commission, and disseminates information I'm delighted to report that we have three book about national / international assessment reviews this issue - do please let us know your projects and initiatives, new test opinion of any books on testing that you've come developments, recently published books / articles, upcoming conferences and across! workshops, and topical issues in the field of Finally, Philippe Sonnleitner continues our testing and assessment to the international discussion of gamified testing with a useful community.