Current roles and responsibilities at the center include:

• Serve on Cluster Five committee in developing and refining the General Education objectives and assessment strategies.
• Oversee the Data Management Team, which is responsible for the cleaning and scoring of all Assessment Day data and external testing data.

Courses frequently taught include:

• Computer-Assisted Data Management & Analysis
• 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

Pastor, D. A. (in press). Cluster analysis. In G. R. Hancock & R. O. Mueller (Eds.), Quantitative methods in the social and behavioral sciences: A guide for researchers and reviewers.  New York: Taylor & Francis.

Wise, S. L., Pastor, D. A., & Kong, X. J. (2009). Understanding correlates of rapid-guessing behavior in low stakes testing: Implications for test development and measurement practice. Applied Measurement in Education, 22, 185-205.

Serpell, Z. N., Evans, S. W., Schultz, B. K., & Pastor, D. A. (2008). Incremental benefits of school-based treatment for adolescents with ADHD. The ADHD Report, 16, 1-7.

Grove, A. B., Evans, S. W., Pastor, D. A., & Mack, S. D. (2008). A meta-analytic examination of follow-up studies of programs designed to prevent the primary symptoms of oppositional defiant and conduct disorders. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 13, 169-184.

Cotten, M. R., & Pastor, D. A. (2008, October). A latent profile analysis of college students’ health and wellness behaviors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT.

Barry, C. L., & Pastor, D. A. (2008, October). Does the Relationship Between AP and SAT Scores Differ Across High Schools? A Hierarchical Approach. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT.

Jones, A. T., & Pastor, D. A. (2008, October). Change in PSAT and SAT scores over time. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT.

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.

Taylor, M. A., & Pastor, D. A. (2007). A confirmatory factor analysis of the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire. Educational & Psychological Measurement, 67, 1002-1018.

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.

Lau, A. R., & Pastor, D. A. (2007, October). Factor mixture models: Mixture modeling as a tool for studying measurement invariance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT.

Lau, A. R. & Pastor, D. A. (2007, October).  A hierarchical linear model of variability in test motivation across students and within students across tests.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT.

Swerdzewski, P. J., & Pastor, D. A. (2007, October).  Students’ nesting within high schools as a predictor of college GPA, worry, and confidence.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT.

Pastor, D. A., Lau, A. R., & Setzer, J. C. (2007, August). Modeling item response profiles using factor models, latent class models, and latent variable hybrids. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.

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

Halonen, J., Harris, C. M., Pastor, D. A., Abrahamson, C. E., & Huffman, C. J. (2005). Assessing general education outcomes in introductory psychology. In D. S. Dunn and S. Chew (Eds.), Best Practices in Teaching Introduction to Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Pastor, D. A. (2005, June). Assessment of health and wellness in general education. Paper presented at the Pacific Planning, Assessment and Institutional Research Conference, Honolulu.

Taylor, M. A., & Pastor, D. A. (2005, May). Adjustment to college as a predictor of first-year retention. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Institutional Research, San Diego.

Taylor, M. A., & Pastor, D. A. (2005, May). A confirmatory factor analysis of the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Institutional Research, San Diego.

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

Beretvas, S. N. & Pastor, D. A. (2003).  Using mixed-effects models in reliability generalization studies. Educational & Psychological Measurement, 63, 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, 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, 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.