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Biography
His current work focuses on the design of assessments and assessment systems that measure college students learning, both their development of competence/ achievement and so-called “soft-skills” such as perspective taking. He co-created the Collegiate Learning Assessment with Steve Klein and built statistical models for estimating value added for the CLA and other college-level assessments. This work is summarized in Measuring College Student Learning: Accountability in a New Era (2010, Stanford University Press) and in recent papers on the measurement and statistical modeling of competence.
Other titles
Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, GSE Faculty Affairs
Program affiliations
CTE: Science Education
DAPS
Research interests
Assessment, Testing and Measurement | Higher Education | Psychology | Research Methods
Recent publications
Shavelson, R. (2026). The Godfather: David Berliner. EDUCATION POLICY ANALYSIS ARCHIVES, 34(28), 23–24.
Oser, F., Mueller, S., Obex, T., Volery, T., & Shavelson, R. J. (2018). Rescue an Enterprise from Failure: An Innovative Assessment Tool for Simulated Performance. ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS AND PERSPECTIVES, 123–44.
Shavelson, R. J., Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, O., & Marino, J. P. (2018). International Performance Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (iPAL): Research and Development. ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS AND PERSPECTIVES, 193–214.
