Like most industires, measurement is in a period of profound change.  Advances in technology, changes in customer needs and demands, advances in psychometric theory and praactice, and the ever-changing political and regulatory changes all drive change.  This session reviews the evolution of the profession over the past twenty-five years and explores the challenges and opportunities for innovation provided by the rapid changes in the educational and employment sectors.  Increasing interest in gamification, demands for ever more efficient assessments deployable on mobile deivces, open source technologies, badges/microcredentials as well as crowd sourcing in education are among the factors shaping the future for testing and assessment that will be discussed in this session.

The session will be organized around a series of themes such as the ones listed above.  For each theme one presenter will set the historical context by reviewing some of the advances, challenges, and, when appropriate, dead-ends associated with the theme.  Two presenters will then discuss current influencers and disruptors affecting current practice and business models.  This interplay among the presenters will be augmented with opportunitiees for the audience to participate with their own examples and theories about how measurement will change in the near future.

The presenters represent different segments within the measurement community including education, employment, and licensure/certification.  In some cases, the disruptors will have similar impacts across segments while in others the imapcts may be quite different.  The presenters will discuss these differences and opportunities for one segment to benefit from the lessons learned in other segments.

The session will conclude with an open dicussion among the presenters and the audience and commentary from the chair.