International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing

Mission Statement

The International Association for Computerized and Adaptive Testing (IACAT) is an organization that is incorporated exclusively for scientific, educational, literary, and charitable purposes.

Its purposes include:

Encouragement of scholarly efforts to:

Advance the science of adaptive testing in all fields of applied psychological and educational measurement;
Improve adaptive instruments and procedures for their administration, scoring, interpretation, and use;
Improve applications of adaptive assessment of individuals and evaluations of assessment programs.

Dissemination of knowledge about:

Theory, techniques, technologies and instrumentation available for adaptive measurement in all relevant human, institutional, and social characteristics;
Procedures appropriate to the interpretation and use of such technologies and instruments;
Applications of adaptive measurement in individual and group evaluation studies.

To achieve these aims, IACAT will:

organize international meetings and discussions;
promote the publication of relevant information by means of its own and other publication outlets;
stimulate international cooperation on research projects relevant to a scientifically and ethically sound use of adaptive testing;
be available to act as an intermediary in international negotiations concerning the publication and marketing of adaptive tests;
advance professional development and work to raise standards governing test development and use.