Joan L. Herman

Joan L. Herman is codirector emeritus of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is past president of the California Educational Research Association. She has held a variety of leadership positions in the American Educational Research Association, National Organization of Research Centers, and Knowledge Alliance, and she is a frequent contributor at the National Academies’ National Research Council (NRC). She served on the Joint Committee for the Revision of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, and is a member NRC’s Board on Testing and Assessment. An elected fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Herman is current editor of Educational Assessment. Herman received her EdD in learning and instruction from the University of California, Los Angeles.

updated 2000