October 2023
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In October 2021, the Graduate Student Issues Committee at NCME called their graduate students to create a study group about the current edition of The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (Standards). During this study group, we studied eachchapter of the Standards and consulted with different Experts about its content and potential for improvement. After a year of work in this group, we continued writing a statement representing graduate students and young professionals from NCME about our view on the new edition of the Standards. This document presents our views about most of the foundational chapters in the document. We wrote this statement using a democratic process, voting on each of its sections among its contributors, and ratified by the group of graduate students with a 90% percentage of approval (N = 19). In our recommendation, we denounce a reputational debt left by the older generations in our field, the need for a clear anti-racist, decolonizing, and culturally responsive stance in the new edition of the Standards, and a need for a better writing process that can react faster to a changing environment. We also recommend making full use of digital formats now available for consensus documents like the Standards.