Author: Randy Elliot Bennett
Title: Distinguished Scientist
Bio: Randy Bennett is Distinguished Scientist in the Research & Development Division at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Bennett began his employment at ETS in 1979. Since the 1980's, he has conducted research on the applications of technology to testing, 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 on the computer, on multimedia and simulation in testing, and on generating test items automatically. For this work, Dr. Bennett was given the ETS Senior Scientist Award in 1996 and the ETS Career Achievement Award in 2005.  He is the editor or author of seven books and many other publications including, "Reinventing Assessment: Speculations on the Future of Large-Scale Educational Testing" (ftp://ftp.ets.org/pub/res/reinvent.pdf), "How the Internet will Help Large-Scale Assessment Reinvent Itself" (http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n5.html), and “What Does it Mean to Be a Nonprofit Educational Measurement Organization in the 21st Century” (http://ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/Nonprofit.pdf). He has made presentations on these and related topics throughout the world. His work, and that of his colleagues, has been profiled in the George Lucas Educational Foundation publication Edutopia (http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-reinventing-standardized-tests), in Education Week's Teacher Beat online blog ( http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2009/05/has_the_research_on_formative.html), and in a recent report from Education Sector (http://www.educationsector.org/research/research_show.htm?doc_id=826893).