Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment

The Doctoral Degree Program

Program Faculty and Research Interests

Dr. Peter Behuniak

Professor-in-Residence. Research Interests: Educational measurement, Large-scale assessment, Classroom based testing practices, Technology supported assessment, Instruction enhancing assessment applications.

Dr. D. Betsy McCoach

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology. Research Interests: Instrument Design, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling, Longitudinal Analysis, Underachievement, Psycho-educational Assessment.

Dr. Ann A. O'Connell

Associate Professor of Educational Psychology. Research Interests: Multilevel Models; Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Programs; Statistical Methods for Ordinal Data; Statistics Education.

Dr. H. Jane Rogers

Associate Professor of Educational Psychology. Research interests: Item response theory; differential item functioning; criterion-referenced measurement; Bayesian analysis; equating for polytomous data; and parameter estimation for polytomous item response models.

Dr. H. Swaminathan

Professor of Educational Psychology. Research interests: item response theory; multivariate statistical analysis; longitudinal analysis; factor analysis and structural equations modeling; Bayesian inference; large scale assessments.