Short Bios of Invited Speakers

Robert Mislevy, Professor at the University of Maryland, applies developments in statistical methodology and cognitive research to practical problems in educational and psychological measurement. His work has been recognized with honors and awards such as the American Educational Research Association's Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research, the National Council of Measurement in Education's Award for Technical Contributions to Educational Measurement (three times), the ETS Senior Research Scientist Award, and the International Language Testing Association's Samuel J. Messick Memorial Lecture Award. In 1992, he was elected president of the Psychometric Society and nominated as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and in 2003 he was presented the National Council of Measurement's Award for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement.  His work has included a multiple-imputation approach for integrating sampling and test-theoretic models in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a Bayesian inference network for updating the student model in an intelligent tutoring system, and a demonstration of a framework for monitoring and improving portfolio assessment evaluation (in the context of the Advanced Placement Studio Art Portfolio assessment). Homepage

Eunice Jang (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Assistant Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is working on integrating formative diagnostic assessment into ESL literacy instruction. Homepage | Publications

Yong-Won Lee (Ph.D., Penn State University) is a faculty member in the English
Language and Literature Department at Seoul National University. He was formerly a senior research scientist at Educational Testing Service, investigating the use of Criterion for analysis of ESL learners’ essay responses to the Writing section of the TOEFL.

Nathan Carr (Ph.D., UCLA) is Assistant Professor of TESOL at California State Fullerton specializing in language assessment.  His work at UCLA included a study investigating the use of computational analysis of constructed responses on an ESL test.

Xiaoming Xi (Ph.D., UCLA) is Senior Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service.  She has conducted research on many aspects of language assessment including development of a validity argument for a test using computational responses analysis.

Mat Schulze (Ph.D., UMIST/Manchester) is Associate Professor of German at University of Waterloo in Ontario.  His research focus is the application of linguistic theory to computer-assisted language learning (CALL). He is working on the computational implementation of German grammar, computerized adaptive language testing and the on-line teaching and learning of German. Homepage

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