Scott Hinders helped write the book about operational best practices in statewide assessment programs. Mr. Hinders co-authored the 2010 Operational Best Practices for Statewide Large-Scale Assessment Programs, the first edition of the guide developed by the Association of Test Publishers and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

That experience – and more than twenty years in the assessment industry working across content development, scoring, reporting, project management, and customer service – has prepared Mr. Hinders for his role at NWEA. Here, he collaborates with Publishing, Research, Product Engineering, Partner Accounts, and NWEA business partners to develop operational and technological solutions that fulfill the needs of traditional paper processes and hand scoring.

Chris Rozunick draws upon nearly two decades of experience developing assessments that appropriately harness technology to help students show what they know. While at the National Center for Educational Accountability, Ms. Rozunick played a large role in the American Diploma Project, which brought together fifteen states to establish graduation benchmarks that signify readiness for jobs and college.

Ms. Rozunick co-authored the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) scientific literacy framework. In ten years leading content development at Pearson, Ms. Rozunick developed training materials for item writers and content specialists. She guided staff on topics including content standards, item and test specifications, assessment blueprints, test design and construction, and fairness for English-as-a-second-language, English Language Arts/Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and special education and alternate assessments. Prior to Pearson, Ms. Rozunick analyzed student data for the Texas Education Agency Student Assessment Division and the Florida Department of Education.

Dr. Christina Schneider provides technical expertise to states, districts, and schools desiring to build coherent, cohesive connections across classroom, interim, and large scale assessments. Dr. Schneider has led psychometric work and standard settings for large-scale assessment programs and co-developed the framework for creating Range achievement level descriptors (ALDs) for statewide achievement tests, a framework currently used by forty percent of states. Before joining NWEA, Dr. Schneider worked with the states of Utah, Florida, Georgia, and those in the Smarter Balanced® Consortium to develop ALDs comingled with learning progressions that show more clearly the learning outcomes targeted by assessments. At NWEA, Dr. Schneider oversees Ph.D.-level scientists working on summative assessment contracts and sets the technical direction for those contracts.