Current roles and responsibilities at the center include:

• Serve as assessment liaison for 10-15 undergraduate/graduate academic programs.
• Work with the JMU honor council on the honor code test.
• Coordinate the academic program component of the annual JMU Alumni survey

Courses frequently taught include:

• Classical Test Theory and Generalizability Theory
• Research and Inferential Statistics
• Doctoral seminar in Research Design

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2008)
  Concentration: Educational and Psychological Measurement
• M.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2006)
  Concentration: Applied Statistics, Measurement, and Program Evaluation
• B.A., University of Delaware (1996)
  Concentration: Anthropology and Biology

Goodman, J.T., Luecht, R.M. (2009, April). Residual covariance structures of complex performance exercises under various scaling and scoring methods: A simulation study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA.

Willse, J., & Goodman J., (2008). Comparison of MIMIC and IRT based analysis of subgroup differences. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 68, 587-602

Willse, J., Goodman J., Allen N, & Klaric, J. (2008). Using structural equation modeling to examine group differences In assessment booklet designs with sparse data”. Applied Measurement in Education, 21, 253-272.

Goodman, J.T., Luecht, R.M., Zhang, Y. (2008, March). An examination of the magnitude of conditional covariance of the complex performance assessments of a large-scale examination under various scoring and scaling methods. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of Measurement in Education, New York, NY.

Goodman J., & Luecht, R.M. (2007). Assessing the dependencies and dimensionality of the simulations on the Uniform Certified Public Accounting Examination. AICPA Technical Report, W0703. Ewing, NJ.

Goodman, J. T., (2007, October). Using conditional covariance structures to inform scoring and scaling decisions. Paper presented at the 23rd annual IRT workshop at the University of Twente, Eschede, Netherlands.

Ackerman, T., Heafner,T., Goodman, J., & Bartz, D. (2007, April). Teacher effect model for impacting student achievements. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago IL.

Willse, J. T., and Goodman, J. T. (2006, June). Comparison of MIMIC and IRT based analysis of subgroup differences. Paper presented at the annual 2006 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Montréal, Ontario.

Goodman J., Willse, J., Klaric, J., & Allen N. (2006, April). Identification of differential item functioning for different survey assessment booklet designs. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Willse, J., Goodman J., Allen N.,& Klaric, J. (2006, April). Comparison of the structure found for different survey booklets designs using structural equation modeling. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the American Educational Research Association, CA.

Klaric, J., Goodman J., Willse, J., & Allen N. (2006, April). Recovery of item parameters estimates from item data generated according to different survey assessment booklets. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the American Educational Research Association, CA.

Goodman, J. (2006, March). Recovery of DIF using the Mantel-Haenszel procedure with sparse data designs . Poster presented at the 2006 UNCG School of Education Research Symposium. Greensboro, NC.

Goodman, J., & Bartz, D. (October 2005). Comparing teacher perceptions of content professional development using online survey. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Toronto, CA.

Goodman, J., & Bartz, D. (October 2005). Collecting data from sensitive populations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Toronto, CA