Testing
General Principles
Featured Articles
The Testing Column: What Everyone Needs to Know about Testing, Whether They Like It or Not
June 2012 (Vol. 81, No. 2)
- The Testing Column: Testing Basics: What You Cannot Afford Not to Know
By Joanne Kane, Ph.D. | Andrew A. Mroch, Ph.D. |
September 2017 (Vol. 86, No. 3)
What the Bar Examination Must Achieve: Three Perspectives
By Michael T. Kane, Ph.D. |
September 2012 (Vol. 81, No. 3)
Test Development
Featured Articles
- The Testing Column: Writing, Selecting, and Placing MBE Items: A Coordinated and Collaborative Effort
By Joanne Kane, Ph.D. | April Southwick |
Spring 2019 (Vol. 88, No. 1)
MEE and MPT Test Development: A Walk-Through from First Draft to Administration
By Judith A. Gundersen |
June 2015 (Vol. 84, No. 2)
The Testing Column: Quality Control for Developing and Grading Written Bar Exam Components
By Susan M. Case, Ph.D. |
June 2013 (Vol. 82, No. 2)
Test Administration
Featured Articles
- The Testing Column: The Bar Admission Administrator and NCBE: The Dynamic Duo
By Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D. |
Spring 2018 (Vol. 87, No. 1)
- Shhh . . . California Examinees May Be Sleeping In after Day Two of the Bar Exam
By Patrick R. Dixon | Alan S. Yochelson |
June 2017 (Vol. 86, No. 2)
- Is Sooner Sometimes Better than Later? Arizona’s Early Bar Exam
By Hon. Scott Bales |
March 2017 (Vol. 86, No. 1)
Test Security and Cheating
Featured Articles
- How to Keep Cheaters from Passing the Bar Exam
By Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D. | James A. Wollack, Ph.D. |
December 2016 (Vol. 85, No. 4)
- Deter, Detect, Decide: A Framework to Address Cheating on the Bar Exam
By Rachel R. Watkins Schoenig |
June 2016 (Vol. 85, No. 2)
Investigating Exam Misconduct: Best Practices Before, During, and After the Exam
By Deborah J. Harris | Rachel R. Watkins Schoenig |
May 2010 (Vol. 79, No. 2)
Grading and Scoring
Featured Articles
The Last Resort: Estimating Scores When Bar Exam Parts Are Missing
By Andrew A. Mroch, Ph.D. |
August 2009 (Vol. 78, No. 3)
- 13 Best Practices for Grading Essays and Performance Tests
By Sonja Olson |
Winter 2019-2020 (Vol. 88, No. 4)
Equating and Scaling
Featured Articles
- The Testing Column: Scaling, Revisited
By Susan M. Case, Ph.D. | Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D. | Joanne Kane, Ph.D. | Douglas R. Ripkey |
Fall 2020 (Vol. 89, No. 1)
The Testing Column: Demystifying Scaling to the MBE: How’d You Do That?
By Susan M. Case, Ph.D. |
May 2005 (Vol. 74, No. 2)
Standard Setting
Featured Articles
- Standard Setting 101: Background and Basics for the Bar Admissions Community
By Michael T. Kane, Ph.D. | Joanne Kane, Ph.D. |
Fall 2018 (Vol. 87, No. 3)
- The Testing Column: Standards? We Don’t Need No Stinking Standards!
By Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D. |
June 2017 (Vol. 86, No. 2)
Conducting Examinee-Centered Standard-Setting Studies Based on Standards of Practice
By Michael T. Kane, Ph.D. |
November 2002 (Vol. 71, No. 4)
Performance Trends
Featured Articles
- 2019 Statistics
Fall 2020 (Vol. 89, No. 1)
- The Testing Column: February 2019: The Light at the End of the Tunnel
By Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D. |
Summer 2019 (Vol. 88, No. 2)
- The Testing Column: July 2018 MBE: The Storm Surge, Again
By Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D. |
Fall 2018 (Vol. 87, No. 3)
ADA Accommodations
Featured Articles
New Regulations Under Titles II and III of the ADA: What Has Changed Relative to the Administration of Licensing Examinations?
By Robert A. Burgoyne | Caroline M. Mew |
March 2011 (Vol. 80, No. 1)
Malingered ADHD Evaluations: A Further Complication for Accommodations Reviews
By Lindsey J. Jasinski, Ph.D. | John D. Ranseen, Ph.D. |
December 2011 (Vol. 80, No. 4)
MBE
Featured Articles
Recent Changes in NCBE’s Multiple-Choice Examination Programs
By Beth E. Donahue |
August 2008 (Vol. 77, No. 3)
MBE Test Development: How Questions Are Written, Reviewed, and Selected for Test Administrations
By C. Beth Hill |
September 2015 (Vol. 84, No. 3)
MEE and MPT
Featured Articles
The MPT: Assessment Opportunities beyond the Traditional Essay
By Diane F. Bosse |
December 2011 (Vol. 80, No. 4)
MEE and MPT Test Development: A Walk-Through from First Draft to Administration
By Judith A. Gundersen |
June 2015 (Vol. 84, No. 2)
MPRE
Featured Articles
Recent Changes in NCBE’s Multiple-Choice Examination Programs
By Beth E. Donahue |
August 2008 (Vol. 77, No. 3)
UBE
Featured Articles
- The Testing Column: Did UBE Adoption in New York Have an Impact on Bar Exam Performance?
By Andrew A. Mroch, Ph.D. | Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D. |
Winter 2019-2020 (Vol. 88, No. 4)
- Testing Knowledge of Local Law: What Are UBE Jurisdictions Doing? Part Two
By Steve McCrae | Geoffrey R. Bok | Hon. Geoffrey W. Barnard | Marie E. ThomasGriffith |
Winter 2019-2020 (Vol. 88, No. 4)
- Testing Knowledge of Local Law: What Are UBE Jurisdictions Doing?
By Beth Fleishman | Jonathan A. Azrael | Jeffrey C. Shipley | Jeffrey M. Ward | Lisa Perlen |
Fall 2019 (Vol. 88, No. 3)
Computer-Based Testing (CBT)
Featured Articles
The Testing Column: Exploring the Pros and Cons of Moving to Computer-Based Testing for the Bar Exam
By Susan M. Case, Ph.D. |
March 2012 (Vol. 81, No. 1)
- The Testing Column: July 2019 MBE: Here Comes the Sun; August 2019 MPRE: Here Comes the Computer
By Mark A. Albanese, Ph.D. |
Fall 2019 (Vol. 88, No. 3)