Chair: Stefanie A. Wind, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Educational Measurement at the University of Alabama. Her primary research interests include the exploration of methodological issues in the field of educational measurement, with emphases on methods related to rater-mediated assessments, rating scales, Rasch models and item response theory models, and nonparametric item response theory, as well as applications of these methods to substantive areas related to education. Stefanie also serves the Rasch SIG as Co-Editor of Rasch Measurement Transactions. She has also previously served as program co-chair for the Rasch SIG. Contact: swind@ua.edu

Treasurer: Audrey Conway Roberts, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy at Bowling Green State University.  Her research interests focus on using quantitative measurement in evaluation and survey research so that data users can make informed decisions with valid results. For this reason, I conduct research in both K-12 and higher education environments, using a variety of quantitative techniques. Although my broader focus lies within quantitative methodologies, I am particularly interested in students’ and teachers’ perspectives of learning environments and how school decisions are made from this information.  Contact: audrobe@bgsu.edu

Secretary: Kaiwen Man, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling at the University of Alabama. Kaiwen has held many positions as Researchers including at the Association of American Medical College, at the Educational Testing Service, and at the Charted Financial Analyst. His research explores questions on the boundaries and interactions of the educational statistics, biometrics, and behavioral research literature with particular attention to models for eye-tracking data, responding process data, Bayesian statistics, and data mining. His works has been published in many peer-reviewed flagship quantitative journals such as Educational and Psychological Measurement, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and Applied Psychological Measurement. Moreover, he has received the prestigious 2022 National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Brenda Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award. Furthermore, his projects have been externally-funded by the ETS Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship program. Kaiwen earned his Ph.D. in Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation at the University of Maryland, College Park, and double Masters’ degrees in Economics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also earned his double Bachelors’ degrees in Economics and Psychology at Lanzhou University.  Contact:  kman@ua.edu 

Program Co-Chairs

Eli Jones, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Educational Psychology and Research department at the University of Memphis.  He received his Ph.D. from Brigham Young University (BYU) from the Educational Inquiry, Measurement, and Evaluation department.  He has also served as a postdoctoral researcher for the Network for Educator Effectiveness at the University of Missouri, as an assistant professor of research at Columbus State University (Georgia), and as a second grade public school teacher.  His research focuses on measurement and assessment in educational settings.  In particular, his work has explored issues relating to rater mediated assessment and other forms of performance assessment commonly used in educational settings, with an emphasis on classroom observation of teachers and teacher candidates. Methodologically, his work focuses on issues such as sparseness in rater networks, connectivity issues in ratings and the measurement of careless responses. His substantive efforts include research in teacher evaluations, student evaluations of teacher effectiveness, course evaluation and the development and validation of performance assessments and other measures used in K-12 and higher education settings. His work has been published in both educational and measurement journals such as Educational Research, Applied Psychological Measurement, the Journal of Educational Measurement and Educational Assessment. Contact: eli.jones@memphis.edu

Audrey Conway Roberts, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy at Bowling Green State University.  Her research interests focus on using quantitative measurement in evaluation and survey research so that data users can make informed decisions with valid results. For this reason, I conduct research in both K-12 and higher education environments, using a variety of quantitative techniques. Although my broader focus lies within quantitative methodologies, I am particularly interested in students’ and teachers’ perspectives of learning environments and how school decisions are made from this information.  Contact: audrobe@bgsu.edu