The Center for Educational Assessment at UMass Amherst is the publisher of the MAPT-CCR. We partner with numerous national and international agencies to carry out psychometric research and operational testing activities. These collaborations not only provide students in the REMP program with funding as full-time research assistants in the Center, but also offer students and faculty opportunities to work with testing professionals on numerous important psychometric questions and often lead to papers that are presented at national and international conferences and/or of publishable quality.

Distinguished University Professor and Center for Educational Assessment Executive Director Stephen G. Sireci has been involved with the MAPT-CCR from the project inception in 2003, and is the principal investigator for the contract with the Massachusetts Department of Education that supports our work on the MAPT-CCR.

April L. Zenisky is Director of the Center, and is the project manager and lead psychometrician for the MAPT-CCR. Like Steve, April has been involved with the MAPT-CCR since 2003.