Dr. George Anthony Benners is Senior Director of Assessment Design and Evaluation at the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), where he leads a team of educators and assessment professionals advising on quality of content, psychometrics, and technology supporting new and existing educational assessment programs in New York City public schools. He also serves as Senior Psychometrician for the department where had leads research and adoption of assessment innovations such as engaging scenario-based performance tasks in technology enhanced, computer adaptive, and cognitive diagnostic assessments. Anthony is an active member of the a number of professional associations and participates in regional, state, and  national conversations on best practices and latest innovations in educational assessment so that the NYCDOE has the opportunity to design and implement high quality formative and summative assessment systems to support effective teaching and learning, provide NYC educational leaders and teachers actionable information to individualize, differentiate, and personalize classroom instruction and prepare our students for college and careers in the 21st century.
Dr. Benners received his Ph.D. in Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology from Fordham University. Before embarking on a path to higher education, he served in the US Army.