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Pages 79-82

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... is a senior program officer in the Board on Testing anc3 Assessment of the National Research Council. Previously, she served as a senior research associate with the Com79
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... His current research includes work on item response theory (IRT) moue1 fit, optimal test design, differential item functioning, computer-aaaptive testing, test translations and adaptations, problems associated with score reporting and stanuaru-setting, reliability assessment on creuentialing exams, and validity issues associated with performance assessments in education and the creuentialing field.
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... Her areas of expertise in' elude the development of curriculum and instructional methodology for teaching reacling, as well as the design anc3 construction of assessment tools to measure reacling achievement. She has clone considerable work related to the development of the National Assessment of Educational Progress reacling tests anc3 served as an adviser for the Voluntary National Tests for 4th~gracle reacling.
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... Her current work includes the refinement anc3 application of methods she anc3 her colleagues have clevelopec3 for assessing differential item functioning (item bias) in small samples, as well as a book for the general public on the use of stanciarclizec3 testing in college anc3 graduate school admissions.
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