Faculty
educational research, measurement, and evaluation
ERME's outstanding faculty and rich intellectual resources provide students with the ideal setting for learning and professional growth. A survey of similar doctoral programs in North America, presented in a paper at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), April 2001, placed the Lynch School program in the top 10 overall. (Survey - PDF)
Current ERME Faculty Research Projects
Each faculty member has their own webpage with research interests, selected publications, current CV, and more. Click the links below to visit these sites.
- Evaluation of the "Essential for Some, Good for All" initiative in the Province of Ontario.
- Linking performance on the NAEP mathematics assessment to instructional practices.
- Comparison of the impact of signature programs at BC on student outcomes.
- Investigating the sensitivity of value-added analysis to choices of scales and models
- Embodied Cognition
- Cognitive Ethnography
- Conceptual Change in Science
- Interaction Analysis
- Embedded Classroom Assessment
- Rasch Measurement & Psychometrics
- Ongoing research projects study measurement models and estimation methods with the application to survey data, educational measurement data, and quality of life research data.
- Lag-3 and Lag-6 autocorrelations in course evaluations
- Measuring Responsive Curriculum Practices
- Suppressor variable effects
- Cross cultural comparisons of Learning to Teach for Social Justice
- Computer Adaptive Testing in physical rehabilitation
- TIMSS--International assessments of mathematics and science at 4th and 8th grades
- TIMSS Advanced--International assessments of advanced mathematics and physics at 12th grade
- PIRLS--International assessment of reading at 4th grade
- prePIRLS--International reading assessment at the primary level for economically developing countries
- eLearning for Educators, with Dr. Joseph Pedulla
- Evolution Readiness: A Modeling Approach, with the Concord Consortium
- IT and College Pathways through application of Technology to explore Urban Ecological Challenges, in collaboration with Teacher Education and Counseling Psychology faculty
- eLearning for Educators, with Dr. Laura O’Dwyer and Dr. Michael Russell
- Teacher Development and Teacher Retention: Unraveling Complex Issues, with Dr. Larry Ludlow and Teacher Education faculty
- Ongoing research in democratic theories of education, policy, and evalutation, evaluation research as a public good, race-conscious education policies, and mixed methods educational research.
Faculty Highlights 2013
Retired Faculty
Dr. Walter Haney, retired 2011
Emeriti
Dr. Albert Beaton, Augustus C. Long Distinguished Professor Chair
Dr. George Madaus, Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy Chair