About this Journal
Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation (PARE) is an online journal providing access to refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, and evaluation. Manuscripts published in PARE are scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about methodological issues and practices, and offer unique contributions to the literature. PARE is intended to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends, and research developments from a variety of settings.
PARE is also committed to highlighting research that focuses on equity in assessment and measurement. To that end, we encourage the submission of manuscripts that address issues of equity and fairness – particularly articles that focuses on the assessment experiences and outcomes for historically marginalized populations.
Volume 31 • 2026
Articles
Giving Voice to Stakeholders on Fair and Valid Use of Accommodations and Universal Tools in Digital Standardized Tests
Sabine Dierick, Fauve De Backer and Katrien Struyven
2026-01-02 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 1
How Raters Differ: A Study of Structured Oral Mathematics Assessment
Samuel Sollerman
2026-01-08 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 2
Applied Shewhart Charts in Education to Understand Chronic Absenteeism Across the State of California: A Methods Application
Erica Geary, Lloyd Provost and Brandon Bennett
2026-01-09 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 3
The Effects of Stimuli Format on a Computer-Based Decoding Task
Amanda M Kern, Michelle K Hosp, John Hosp, Amanda M Marcotte and Derek B Rodgers
2026-01-15 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 4
Text Complexity Versus Task Complexity: Item Difficulty Modeling for Reading Items
Christina Schneider, Jing Chen and Jeremy Heneger
2026-02-03 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 5
Assessing the Measurement Equivalence of a Set of Items: Item-specific Diagnostics on an Interpretable Metric
Johan Braeken and Saskia van Laar
2026-02-16 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 6
Placement Testing as a Sociocultural Act: Rethinking Assessment for Heritage Language Learners in the Canadian Context
Fati Osuman
2026-03-06 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 7
Increasing the Generalizability of Open-Ended Survey Item Responses
Emily Diaz, John H. Hitchcock and Greg Norman
2026-04-21 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 9
Systematic Data Validation: Improving Research by Improving Data Quality
Jamie DeCoster, Michelle K. Francis, Garam Lee and Elise Rubinstein
2026-05-11 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 10
Advancing Toward Democratic Assessment in Morocco: EFL Teachers’ Critical Language Assessment Literacy
Youssef Oufela
2026-05-19 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 11
Bayesian Lasso Regression for Identifying Home and Parental Predictors of Reading Achievement: Evidence from PIRLS 2021 Türkiye
Fatih Ozkan
2026-05-20 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 12
Rethinking Cohen’s d: From Effect Size to Detectability
Andreas M. Brandmaier
2026-05-28 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 13
The CORE Framework: A Process-Oriented Approach to Boosting Survey Response Rates in Grant-Funded Program Evaluation
Haiyang Su
2026-06-28 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 14
Performance of Data Mining Methods for Propensity Score Analysis with Multilevel Data
Meng Fan, Henry May and Zachary Collier
2026-07-13 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 15
The Effect of Rating Order on Raters’ Assessing of Speaking
Mojtaba Taghvafard and Alireza Ahmadi
2026-07-21 Volume 31 • 2026 • Article 16