Graduates of the Ph.D. Program
Associate Director, Center for Assessment & Research Studies Associate Professor of Graduate Psychology James Madison University ander2rd@jmu.edu
Graduated: 2001 Dissertation:Stereotype Threat: The Effects of Gender Identification on Standardized Test Performance
Director of Institutional Assessment, Office of Academic Affairs Tulane University, New Orleans, LA kbusby@tulane.edu
Graduated: 2005 Dissertation:Validity Study of the Leadership Attitudes and Beliefs Scale III
Research Scientist Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO; Alexandria, VA) HCampbell@HumRRO.org
Graduated: 2007 Dissertation:Invariance of the Modified Achievement Goal Questionnaire Across College Students with and without Disabilities
Associate Psychometrician, Research adn Development/Statistical Analysis Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ) jcid@ets.org
Graduated: 2009 Dissertation: Using explanatory item response models to examine the impact of linguistic features of a reading comprehension test on English language learners
Measurement Consultant amanda@dainisconsulting.com
Graduated: 2008 Dissertation:Methods for Identifying Differential Item and Test Functioning: An Investigation of Type I Error Rates and Power
Psychometrician Alpine Testing Solutions susanlynndavis@gmail.com
Graduated: 2005 Dissertation:Achievement Goal Orientation Across the College Career: A Latent Growth Analysis
Associate Assessment Specialist Assistant Professor of Graduate Psychology James Madison University fulchekh@jmu.edu
Graduated: 2004 Dissertation:Towards Measuring Lifelong Learning: The Curiosity Index
Research Scientist PreVisor (Chantilly, VA) sgutierrez@previsor.com
Graduated: 2009 Dissertation:Examining the Psychometric Properties of a Multimedia Innovative Item Format: Comparison of Innovative and Non-Innovative Versions of a Situational Judgment Test
Director, Evaluation Center Center for Creative Leadership (Greensboro, NC) hoolee@leaders.ccl.org
Graduated: 2005 Dissertation:Integrating and Evaluating Mathematical Models of Assessing Structural Knowledge: Comparing Associative Network Methodologies
Associate Psychometrician, Human Constructed-Response Scoring Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ jjoe@ets.org
Graduated: 2008 Dissertation:Using Verbal Reports to Explore Rater Perceptual Processes in scoring: An Application to Oral Communication Assessment
Psychometrician American Board of Surgery (Philadelphia, PA) ajones@absurgery.org
Graduated: 2009 Dissertation:Using the Right Tool for the Job: An Analysis of Item Selection Statistics for Criterion-Referenced Tests
Assistant Research Scientist The College Board (New York, NY) pkaliski@collegeboard.org
Graduated: 2009 Dissertation:An Empirical Demonstration of Direct and Indirect Mixture Modeling When Studying Personality Traits: A Methodological-Substantive Synergy
Psychometrician I Pearson Educational Measurement (Austin, TX) jadie.kong@pearson.com
Graduated: 2007 Dissertation:Using Response Time and the Effort-Moderated Model to Investigate the Effects of Rapid Guessing on Estimation of Item and Person Parameters
Project Director College of the Holy Cross alau@holycross.edu
Graduated: 2009 Dissertation: Using a mixture IRT model to improve parameter estimates when some examinees are amotivated
Psychometrician Pacific Metrics (Monterey, CA) slottridge@pacificmetrics.com
Graduated: 2006 Dissertation:Comparing the Relative Measurement Efficiency of Dichotomous and Polytomous Models in Linear and Adaptive Testing Conditions
Director of Institutional Research & Effectiveness Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, VA) bj.miller@emu.edu
Graduated: 2007 Dissertation:Unfolding Analyses of the Academic Motivation Scale: A Different Approach to Evaluating Scale Validity and Self-Determination Theory
Coordinator of Assessment, E-Learning Center Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ) Sue.Pieper@nau.edu
Graduated: 2003 Dissertation: Refining and Extending the 2 x 2 Achievement Goal Framework: Another Look at Work-Avoidance
Consultant in the areas of development, assessment, & program evaluation Adjunct Faculty, Edgewood College (Madison, WI) kscocos@sbcglobal.net
Graduated: 2002 Dissertation: Measurement of Critical Thinking in College Students: Assessing the Model
Psychometrician GED Testing Service, American Council on Education carl_setzer@ace.nche.edu
Graduated: 2008 Dissertation: Parameter Recovery of the Explanatory Multidimensional Rasch Model
Director of University Analysis, Reporting, & Assessment Salisbury University (Salisbury, MD) kosiegert@salisbury.edu
Graduated: 2005 Dissertation: Cyberspace Versus Face-to-Face: The Influence of Learning Strategies, Self-Regulation, and Achievement Goal Orientation
Assessment Consultant pswerdz@me.com
Graduated: 2008 Dissertation: Should We Worry About the Way We Measure Worry Over Time? A Longitudinal Analysis of Student Worry During the First Two Years of College
Psychometrician Accountability Services Division - Test Development Section North Carolina Department of Public Instruction mtaylor@dpi.state.nc.us
Graduated: 2009 Dissertation: An Application of Generalizability Theory to Evaluate the Technical Quality of An Alternate Assessment
Director of Assessment & Evaluation College of Education, James Madison University thelkad@jmu.edu
Graduated: 2006 Dissertation: Examinee Awareness of Performance Expectations and its Effects on Motivation and Test Scores
Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methodology School of Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro jtwillse@uncg.edu
Graduated: 2002 Dissertation: Controlling Computer Adaptive Testing's Capitalization on Chance Errors in Item Parameter Estimates
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