Current roles and responsibilities at the center include:

• Serve as assessment liaison for the writing and rhetoric program, the social work oral exam, honor code assessment, alumni survey, and departments in student affairs
• Director of statistical analysis for a U.S. Department of Education Teacher Quality grant awarded to the S.C. Department of Education

Courses frequently taught include:

• Research and Inferential Statistics
• Classical Test Theory and Generalizability Theory
• Nonparametric Statistics

• Ph.D., University of South Carolina (2004)
  Concentration: Educational Psychology & Research
• M.S., Augusta State University (1996)
  Concentration: Psychology
• B.S., University of Georgia (1994)
  Concentration: Psychology

Finch, H., Barton, K., & Meyer, J. P. (2006). Differential item functioning for accommodated versus not accommodated students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco.

Kissel, H., Meyer, J. P., & Liu, X. (2006). Successful retention of new and minority teachers: Results from SASS and TFS. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.

Meyer, J. P., & Seaman, M. A. (2006). Expanded tables of the Kruskal-Wallis H statistic. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.

Meyer, J. P., & Wise, S. L. (2006). Including item response time in a distractor analysis via multivariate kernel smoothing. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco.

Liu, X., & Meyer, J. P. (2005). Teachers’ perceptions of their jobs: a multilevel analysis of the Teacher Follow-up Survey 1994-95. Teachers College Record, 107, 985-1003.

Huynh, H., Barton, K., Meyer, J.P., Porchea, S., & Gallant, D. (2005). Vertically moderated standards for SC PACT 1999 assessments of English Language Arts and mathematics: A look back from adjacent-grade student data. Applied Measurement in Education, 18, 115-128.

Meyer, J. P. (2005). An ability and response time item characteristic surface [cover visual and narrative]. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices, 24(2), 1-2.

Meyer, J. P., Huynh, H., & Seaman, M. A. (2004). Differential item functioning methods based on small samples: An illustration based on an attitude survey. Journal of Educational Measurement, 41, 331-344.

Huynh, H., Meyer, J. P., & Gallant, D. (2004). Comparability of student performance between regular and oral administrations for a high-stakes mathematics test. Applied Measurement in Education, 17,39-57.

Huynh, H., & Meyer, J. P. (2003). Maximum information approach to scale description for affective measures based on the Rasch model. Journal of Applied Measurement, 4,101-110.