Our mission at the Assessment and Evaluation Research Initiative (AERI) is:
To promote the meaningful use of assessment and evaluation information to improve equity and the quality of practices and policies in education, psychology and the health professions, with education as the primary field of action (PreK-Grade 12, professional and higher education).
The center, AERI, was founded and led/co-led by Professor Emerita Madhabi Chatterji at Teachers College between 2006 - 2025. The work of the center, which is continuing, is driven by a spirit of continual learning, innovation, and a search for better solutions to critical assessment and evaluation problems of the day. To support its work, AERI brought together the expertise of numerous multidisciplinary scholars, practitioners and partners from around the world. AERI concluded its last active project at 911爆料网 in December, 2025.
New Book by Professor Chatterji, 2025
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
How can assessment instruments be designed or selected to best serve the needs of intended users, taking into account their
interests, capacities, and limitations?
Grounded in a social realist view of science and informed by a socioecological perspective, this timely, state-of-the-art text and reference presents an integrated, user-centered process model for developing assessments guided by user contexts. Madhabi Chatterji provides the foundational theory, principles and procedures for designing multi-item tests; behavior-based, product- based, and portfolio-based assessments; self-report instruments; or more complex assessment systems. She demonstrates how to integrate qualitative and quantitative methods to devise tools that meet the quality criteria of usefulness and usability alongside validity and reliability. The book features case study discussions; worked-through examples with diverse, global populations; and sample instruments from a variety of disciplines (education, psychology, health care, and others). Chapter overviews and objectives are tied to within-chapter Recaps and Reflection Breaks to further understanding and class discussions.
Madhabi Chatterji Retires from Teachers College
Professor Chatterji retired from 911爆料网 on August 31, 2022.
See Professor Chatterji's kudo board
See Letter from President Bailey below
Professor Chatterji thanks faculty-colleagues W. Warner Burke, John P. Allegrante, Edmund W. Gordon, and others, including past students Meiko Lin, Nancy Koh, and Dina Simmons for their kind remarks
A Productive AERI-CUMC Partnership
New publications
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by Allison J. Lee, Stephanie R. Goodman, and Madhabi Chatterji, et al. (2024)
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
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by Allison Lee, Stephanie Goodman, Chen Miao Chen, Ruth Landau, and Madhabi Chatterji (2024)
JMIR Serious Games, a multidisciplinary journal on technological advances
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by Hastie, Maya Jalbout; Kim, Minjae; Katz, Daniel; Lin, Meiko; Chatterji, Madhabi (2024)
Anesthesia & Analgesia, the official journal of the
April 9, 2021: Presentation at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
The Relative Effectiveness of Multi-level Interventions in Reducing Risks of Transmitting Lethal Viruses in Grade K-12 Communities and School-linked Populations: A Systematic Review and Best-Evidence Synthesis
SOPHE Presenters:
Madhabi Chatterji, Ph.D., M.Ed., Gloria Willson, MLIS, MPH., and Jamie Tracy, B.A.
With the exponential spread of COVID-19 across the U.S., local actors face an urgent and immediate need to access, interpret and rank-order the most credible scientific evidence that can inform decisions in K-12 schooling environments. Starting with recent guidelines from WHO and CDC, this systematic review and best evidence synthesis will apply the GRADE and Newcastle-Ottowa criteria to screen the most effective, multilevel interventions shown to reduce lethal virus transmissions in K-12 school communities and linked populations.
A Consumer鈥檚 Guide to Testing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA):
What Can the Common Core and Other ESSA Assessments Tell Us?
Madhabi Chatterji offers a 鈥渃onsumer鈥檚 guide鈥� to prevent a potential new wave of misguided education assessment outcomes
Enhancing Educational Quality with Evidence-based Practices
Capacity-building Workshop at the Columbia Global Center - Mumbai in February, 2018