Faculty and Staff
The faculty in the Department of Educational Research Methodology represent a variety of teaching, professional, and research interests.
ERM Faculty and Staff
- Terry Ackerman, Professor and ERM Chair (E-Mail)
Educational measurement and practical applications of item response theories, including computerized adaptive testing, test construction, equating, differential item/test functioning and ability estimation; theory and application of multidimensional item response theory; applied statistics
- Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Professor (E-Mail)
Second/foreign language testing and assessment, including proficiency, performance-based, computer-based/adaptive, & achievement testing; large-scale/standardized testing, especially in international contexts; the assessment of less commonly taught languages, and language policy and planning in educational testing
- Robert Henson, Assistant Professor (E-Mail, Webpage)
Educational measurement, latent variable modeling with an emphasis on skills diagnosis models, factor analysis, item response theory, classical test theory, test construction, and multivariate statistics
- Rachel Hill , ERM Administrative Support Associate (E-Mail)
- Ric Luecht, Professor (E-Mail)
Educational measurement, employment and professional testing; performance assessments; standard setting; design of computerized testing systems; integration of cognitive science and measurement; automated test assembly; structural equation modeling; experimental design; multivariate statistics
- Rick Morgan, Assoc. Professor/SOE Director of Assessment (E-Mail)
Educational measurement, test construction, equating, differential item functioning, applied statistics, performance assessments
- Minhee Seo, Visiting Professor (E-Mail)
Educational measurement, test construction, measurement theories, computerized adaptive testing, standardized testing applications
- John Willse, Assistant Professor (E-Mail)
Educational measurement, practical applications of classical and modern test theory, outcomes assessment in higher education, computer adaptive testing