Paldroe was founded in 2024 by a team of educational assessment researchers, technology innovators, and industry executives who believe assessments should measure not just what students know, but what they can do with that knowledge.
Our founders bring decades of experience designing, developing, and delivering large-scale educational assessments, including pioneering work in online testing, interactive performance tasks, accessibility, and automated scoring. Together, we are applying that experience to make sophisticated performance assessments easier to develop, administer, and score.
Through TestQuill, we are creating new possibilities for assessment developers to build engaging, accessible, and meaningful tasks while preserving the flexibility and interoperability of open standards.
A team that has spent careers building, researching, and scaling the assessments that students take every day.
Co-Founder
Dr. Cohen brings more than three decades of experience in educational measurement, assessment technology, and industry leadership. As President and Chief Statistician of AIR Assessment (now Cambium Assessment), he helped build one of the nation's largest statewide assessment providers. He pioneered innovations in online testing, accessibility, and interactive science assessments, including leading a multistate initiative to develop simulation-based science tasks.
Co-Founder
Mr. Mamtora brings more than two decades of experience in software engineering, systems architecture, and technology leadership. As a senior engineering leader at AIR Assessment and Cambium Assessment, he helped develop and scale online testing systems, including technologies supporting accessible assessments. His experience also spans cloud-based services and distributed systems at Amazon Web Services, where he contributed to the development of scalable application technologies.
Co-Founder
Dr. Cohen is a cognitive psychologist specializing in computational modeling, human cognition, and decision-making. His extensive research includes federally funded studies of educational assessment, numerical reasoning, and accessibility for students with disabilities and English learners. His work has helped inform the design of accommodations and assessment interfaces that reduce barriers to student performance.
Co-Founder
Mr. Androes brings extensive executive leadership and technology experience in educational assessment and enterprise software development. His career includes senior leadership at Measurement Incorporated and earlier software engineering and management roles at IBM and NCS (now Pearson). He has guided the development and implementation of technology systems supporting large-scale assessment programs, combining technical expertise with experience managing complex operations.
Co-Founder
Dr. Palermo is an educational assessment executive and researcher with nearly two decades of experience advancing large-scale assessment practices and technologies. He has contributed to assessment initiatives across more than 25 states, with expertise spanning performance assessment, human and AI-based scoring, and assessment innovation. An active contributor to the educational measurement community, he has led funded research and published extensively on scoring accuracy, validity, fairness, and emerging assessment technologies.
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