Assessment of Complex Cognition: Commentary on the Design and Validation of Assessments

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Acknowledgements

The preparation of this commentary was supported, in part, by Project READI, a multidisciplinary, multiinstitution collaboration aimed at research and development to improve complex comprehension of multiple forms of text in literature, history, and science. The first author's thinking on matters of assessment of historical, scientific and literary reasoning have benefitted from discussions with his READI colleagues. Project READI is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education, through Grant R305F100007 to University of Illinois at Chicago. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the US Department of Education.

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James W. Pellegrino is the Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Psychology, and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Co-director of UIC's Learning Sciences Research Institute and Mark Wilson is Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.