Linda Cook ETS
Dr. Linda Cook is the 2025 recipient of the E. F. Lindquist Award. After obtaining her doctorate in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dr. Cook had a distinguished career at ETS, including as vice president of assessment and director of the Center for Validity Research. Dr. Cook’s work has enhanced our understanding of theoretical and applied issues in equating test scores. She has also focused on issues of fairness in educational assessment, including the provision of accommodations for test takers with disabilities, and co-authored the fairness chapter in the 2014 joint Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. Linda’s past leadership roles include vice president of AERA Division D and president of the National Council on Measurement in Education. Apart from her technical contributions, Linda is well known for mentoring generations of early career practitioners and scholars with warmth and wisdom.
Named in honor of an outstanding scholar and researcher, this annual award is presented jointly by the American Educational Research Association and ACT in recognition of outstanding applied or theoretical research in the field of testing and measurement. The award is meant to acknowledge a body of research of an empirical, theoretical, or integrative nature rather than a single study. Although the research is not required to have led directly to improved educational practices, it should nevertheless be rich in suggestions for additional research that does hold such promise. Particular emphasis will be given to research that has advanced the companion goals of greater understanding and improved use of testing and measurement techniques. Awardees may include individuals conducting research in a broad array of disciplines, such as education and psychology.
The winner of the award will be invited to give the E. F. Lindquist Award Lecture at the following Annual Meeting. An article emanating from the lecture will be considered for publications in the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.
Before 1987, the Award recognized only outstanding research in college student development. In 1987 and subsequent years it acquired a broader scope of recognition.
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