About Kristen Huff

Kristen Huff, M.Ed., Ed.D., currently serves as the Head of Measurement at Curriculum Associates, where she works with a team of assessment designers, psychometricians, data scientists and researchers in the development of online assessments integrated with personalized learning and teacher-led instruction. Prior to this role, she served as the Senior Fellow for the New York State Education Department as well as serving in leadership roles with several major assessment companies. Dr. Huff has deep expertise in k-12 large scale assessment design and validation, has presented and published consistently in educational measurement conferences and publications for over 25 years. She served as a technical advisor for the 2026 NAEP Frameworks in Reading and Mathematics, as the inaugural Co-Chair of the NCME Task Force on Classroom Assessment 2016-2020, is the recipient of the 2021 Career Achievement Award from the Association of Test Publishers, is first author of the forthcoming Educational Measurement, 5th Edition (Oxford University Press), Designing and Developing Educational Assessments (Huff, Nichols, and Schneider), and is the NCME Representative to the Management Committee for the revision of the 2014 Joint Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, published by AERA, APA, and NCME.