Current roles and responsibilities at the center include:

• Serve on Cluster Five committee in developing and refining the General Education objectives and assessment strategies.
• Assist with the development of assessments for several undergraduate and graduate academic programs at JMU.

Courses frequently taught include:

• Computer-Assisted Data Management & Analysis
• Advanced Measurement Theory
• Hierarchical Linear Modeling

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2001)
  Concentration: Educational Psychology/Measurement and Statistics
• B.A., University of Texas at Austin (1995)
  Concentration: Psychology

Taylor, M. A., & Pastor, D. A. (in press). A confirmatory factor analysis of the Student
Adaptation to College Questionnaire. Educational & Psychological Measurement.

Pastor, D. A., Kaliski, P. K., & Weiss, B. A. (2007).  Examining college students’ gains in general education. Research & Practice in Assessment, 1, 1-20.

Evans, S. W., Serpell, Z. N., Schultz, B., & Pastor, D. A. (2007). Cumulative benefits of secondary school-based treatment of students with ADHD. School Psychology Review, 36, 256-273.

Pastor, D. A., Barron, K. E., Miller, B. J., & Davis, S. L. (2007). A latent profile analysis of college students’ achievement goal orientation profiles. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 32, 8-47.

Pastor, D. A., & Beretvas, S. N. (2006). Longitudinal Rasch modeling in the context of
psychotherapy outcomes assessment. Applied Psychological Measurement, 30(2), 100-120.

Halonen, J., Harris, C. M., Pastor, D. A., Abrahamson, C. E., & Huffman, C. J. (2004). Assessing general education outcomes in introductory psychology.   In Dunn, D. S. and Chew, S. (Eds.). Best Practices in Teaching Introductory Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Pastor, D. A. (2003). The use of multilevel IRT modeling in applied research: An illustration.  Applied Measurement in Education, 16(3), 223-243 .

Beretvas, S. N. & Pastor, D. A. (2003).  Using mixed-effects models in reliability generalization studies.  Journal of Educational and Psychological Measurement,62(1), 75-95.

Davis, L. L., Pastor, D. A., Dodd, B. G., Chiang, C., Fitzpatrick, S. J.(2003).  An examination of exposure control and content balancing restrictions on item selection in CATs using the partial credit model. Journal of Applied Measurement,4(1), 24-42.

Pastor, D. A., Dodd, B. G., & Chang, H. H. (2002).  A comparison of item selection techniques and exposure control mechanisms in CATs using the generalized partial credit model.  Applied Psychological Measurement, 26(2), 147-163.

Reid, R., Epstein, M. H., Pastor, D. A., & Ryser, G. R. (2000). Strength-based assessment differences across students with LD and EBD. Remedial and Special Education, 21(6), 346-355.