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Randy Elliot Bennett
Educational Testing Service

Randy Bennett is Distinguished Presidential Appointee at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and service in educational measurement. Dr. Bennett began his employment at ETS in 1979. Since the 1980's, he has conducted research on the applications of technology to testing and teaching, on new forms of assessment, and on the assessment of students with disabilities. Dr. Bennett's work on the use of new technology to improve assessment has included research on presenting and scoring open-ended test items via computer, on multimedia in testing, and on generating test items automatically. Dr. Bennett is the editor or author of seven books and many other publications including a widely-cited monograph, "Reinventing Assessment: Speculations on the Future of Large-Scale Educational Testing" (http://www.ets.org/research/pic/bennett.html). He has made presentations on this and related topics throughout the world. Dr. Bennett is currently leading a series of studies designed to lay the groundwork for introducing computerized testing to the U.S. National Assessment of Educational Progress.