Scott Marion

Scott Marion, Ph.D., is the Principal Learning Associate at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment after 10 years as executive director. He is a national leader in conceptualizing and designing innovative and balanced assessment systems and accountability reform to support instructional and other critical uses. Dr. Marion is a member of the National Academy of Education and serves on the National Assessment Governing Board, overseeing the National Assessment of Educational Progress. He coordinates and/or serves on 10 state or district Technical Advisory Committees (TAC) for assessment and accountability.

His research focuses on validity, implementing balanced assessment systems, and the instructional usefulness of assessments. Dr. Marion co-edited the recently published Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems and co-authored Understanding Instructionally Useful Assessments. Dr. Marion is a co-author of the validity chapter in the forthcoming volume of Educational Measurement and has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder with a concentration in Measurement and Evaluation.  

Email Scott Marion at: Smarion@nciea.org