CZI Educational Assessment and Equity Advisory Board
Jennifer Randall
Jennifer Randall is the Dunn Family Chair of Psychometrics and Test Development and the founding President of the Center for Measurement Justice. Dr. Randall received her bachelor’s (1996) and master’s (1999) degrees from Duke University and her doctoral degree from Emory University (2007). She began her career first as a public-school teacher in secondary history working with racially and ethnically minoritized students. It was in this capacity as a high school teacher that she began to recognize the ways in which traditional assessment practices cause deep and irreparable harm to the most marginalized students- the students the system should be seeking to serve the most. Her work seeks to disrupt white supremacist, racist logics in assessment through justice-oriented practices that are explicitly and unapologetically antiracist. She is committed to working with Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities and our co-conspirators to explore the ways in which we can create a justice-oriented assessment system culture in which the sociocultural identities of students are deliberately considered and valued – not as an afterthought, but rather – in the planning and development phases of assessment.
Currently, she is engaged with several research projects to re-imagine the current assessment design process from construct articulation to score administration. She works closely with students, parents, and teachers to identify their needs/wants from assessments in order to translate that into an assessment experience for students that is meaningful, culturally affirming, and empowering. Dr. Randall sits on numerous state and national working groups, committees, and technical advisories as a fierce advocate for antiracist, liberating processes and regulations that center the needs of Black, Brown, and Indigenous students. She currently teaches graduate courses in quantitative methods and assessment.
