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Professor of Education Stephen G. Sireci
He currently serves on several advisory boards including the Graduate Management Admissions Council Technical Advisory Committee, the Technical Advisory Panel for the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy, and technical advisory committees for Puerto Rico, Texas, and New York. He is a Fellow of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, Past-President of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, a Senior Scientist for the Gallup Organization, and a member of the Board of Directors for the National Council on Measurement in Education. In 2003 he received the School of Education's Outstanding Teacher Award and in 2007 he received the University of Massachusetts Chancellor's Medal (listen to related NPR radio interview). Professor Sireci reviews articles for over a dozen professional journals and he is on the editorial boards of Applied Measurement in Education, Educational and Psychological Measurement, the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and Psicothema, and he is the co-editor of the International Journal of Testing.
Professor Sireci's current interests focus on issues related to test development, equity issues in testing, and the evaluation of educational programs. His specific research activities include creating procedures and models for evaluating test score reliability and validity (including differential item and test functioning), problems and issues related to computer-based testing, evaluating different language versions of tests, and test development issues such as standard setting and sensitivity review.
Professor Sireci's personal home page, containing information on his courses, his CV, and links to other sites of psychometric interest can be found here.
