This month, the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) proudly marks our 75th anniversary, celebrating a legacy of research, innovation, and service spanning seven-and-a-half decades. From our beginnings supporting the [...]

Special Operations Forces (SOF) have long operated on a simple reality: the operator is the platform. While missions, technologies, and operating environments continue to evolve, human performance remains the [...]

It can be challenging to build an assessment that authentically measures the depth and breadth of student learning and focuses on important competencies rather than isolated decontextualized academic content [...]

Educators, like most professionals, are given more responsibility as their expertise and experience grow. Most school principals, content specialists, and district-level personnel have been classroom teachers. Because the summative [...]

“Everyone hates summative end-of-year assessments!” Complaints about them are rampant among educators, legislators, parents, students, and even some measurement professionals. The tests come at the wrong time, just when [...]

Years of research and experience have demonstrated that structured interviews are highly effective at predicting applicant success, while enhancing more consistent, objective application relative to other assessments. However, the [...]

Anyone who has ever taken a test when the stakes are high—to get a job, promotion or certification, to graduate from high school, to enter college or the military, [...]

HumRRO emerged from the pandemic in 2021 stronger and more agile than ever. It is fitting that the year also marked HumRRO’s 70th anniversary. Our longevity is a testament [...]

The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) enacted in 2015 stipulates that “all children receive a well-rounded education” and emphasizes that schools should work to “close student achievement gaps.” [...]