Mission

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.

• 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.