An approach to constructing educational assessments that uses evidentiary arguments to reveal the reasoning underlying the design of the test. The test designers begin with an analysis of the types of evidence necessary to make valid claims about what test takers know or can do.

Evidence-centered design is a systematic approach to test development. The design work begins with developing claims (the inferences we want to draw about what students know and can do). Next, evidence statements are developed to describe the tangible things we could point to, highlight or underline in a student work product that would help us prov [..]