Marianne Perie is WestEd’s Senior Research Director of Assessment and Accountability, responsible for shaping the agency’s psychometric and assessment research. Perie provides deep measurement expertise that draws on her more than two decades of experience working to improve educational equity through high-quality research.
Perie has helped more than a dozen states develop and implement fair, valid, and innovative systems of assessment and accountability. Her expertise is in test design and psychometrics, emphasizing the usability and interpretation of data.
She has worked on state-level operational programs, designed and evaluated interim assessments for districts, and contributed to research for international assessments, including the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). She has also worked with states and consortia to design and validate alternate assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. In addition, she led a reporting group for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, also known as the Nation’s Report Card) and has served on advisory committees for the National Assessment Governing Board.
Perie co-led a team that received a WestEd Strategic Investment Grant to develop an updated bias review protocol to review assessment tasks and items for relevance, currency, and inclusiveness. The project team will use those tasks and items as the use-case for developing and testing the protocol.
Perie earned her PhD in Educational Research, Evaluation, and Measurement from the University of Virginia, and BA in Psychology from Cornell University.