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Professional Vita – January 25, 2011 JOHN FREMER EDUCATION Columbia University 1970 Ph.D. Major: Educational Psychology, Measurement Teachers College Columbia University 1964 M.A. Major: Educational Psychology Teachers College City University of 1962 B.A. Major: Psychology New York (Brooklyn (Phi Beta Kappa & Magna cum Laude) College) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2003-Present Caveon Test Security – Current position President, Caveon Consulting Services, previously President, Vice President, Educational Services, and Senior Director of Security Services 1987 - 2003 Educational Testing Service - Senior Development Leader, School and College Services and Director of Education, ETS Global Institute. 1983 - 1987 The Psychological Corporation - Vice President and Director, Measurement Division. Responsible for the Direction of the Computer-Based Testing, Educational Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, and Admissions and Credentialing areas. 1965 - 1983 Educational Testing Service - Held a variety of administrative and professional positions in the statistical analysis and test development areas such as: Director of Test Development and Statistics, Elementary and Secondary School Programs; Associate Director, Center for Statewide Educational Assessment, Chairman, Verbal Aptitude Department, Test Development Division, etc. 1964 Institute of Language Arts, Teachers College, Columbia University and Lexington School for the Deaf, New York City - Research Assistant. 1962 - 1964 Horace Mann Lincoln Institute of School Experimentation, Teachers College, Columbia University - Research Assistant. PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS The content of controlled continuous word associations. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Speech and Hearing Association, Chicago, October 1965. (With Walter H. MacGinitie) The College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test as a predictor of academic achievement in secondary schools in England. Journal of Educational Measurement, 1968, 5, 235-241. (With William E. Coffman and Philip H. Taylor)

Professional Vita – January 25, 2011 JOHN FREMER EDUCATION€¦ · Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education, September 1975. (With George Elford, Robert Kates, and Kathleen Rice)

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Page 1: Professional Vita – January 25, 2011 JOHN FREMER EDUCATION€¦ · Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education, September 1975. (With George Elford, Robert Kates, and Kathleen Rice)

Professional Vita – January 25, 2011

JOHN FREMER

EDUCATION

Columbia University 1970 Ph.D. Major: Educational Psychology, Measurement Teachers College

Columbia University 1964 M.A. Major: Educational Psychology

Teachers College City University of 1962 B.A. Major: Psychology

New York (Brooklyn (Phi Beta Kappa & Magna cum Laude) College)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003-Present Caveon Test Security – Current position President, Caveon Consulting Services, previously President, Vice President, Educational Services, and Senior Director of Security Services

1987 - 2003 Educational Testing Service - Senior Development Leader, School and College Services and Director of Education, ETS Global Institute.

1983 - 1987 The Psychological Corporation - Vice President and Director, Measurement Division. Responsible for the Direction of the Computer-Based Testing, Educational Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, and Admissions and Credentialing areas.

1965 - 1983 Educational Testing Service - Held a variety of administrative and professional positions in the statistical analysis and test development areas such as: Director of Test Development and Statistics, Elementary and Secondary School Programs; Associate Director, Center for Statewide Educational Assessment, Chairman, Verbal Aptitude Department, Test Development Division, etc.

1964 Institute of Language Arts, Teachers College, Columbia University and Lexington School for the Deaf, New York City - Research Assistant.

1962 - 1964 Horace Mann Lincoln Institute of School Experimentation, Teachers College, Columbia University - Research Assistant.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

The content of controlled continuous word associations. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Speech and Hearing Association, Chicago, October 1965. (With Walter H. MacGinitie)

The College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test as a predictor of academic achievement in secondary schools in England. Journal of Educational Measurement, 1968, 5, 235-241. (With William E. Coffman and Philip H. Taylor)

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A look at the Scholastic Aptitude Test - 1969. Paper presented at workshop of Union County Regional School District English Teachers, February 1969.

Computer assisted item writing - II. (sentence completion items) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Los Angeles, February 1969. ETS TDM-69-1, June 1969. (With E. J. Anastasio and D. M. Marcotte)

The content of controlled continuous word associations. Chapter in Verbal Ability of the Deaf Child. Teachers College Press, spring 1969. (With Walter H. MacGinitie)

Computer assisted item writing - I. (spelling items) Journal of Educational Measurement. 1969, 6 69-74. (With E. J. Anastasio)

The Michigan Basic Skills Assessment Battery. Seminar at the Michigan School Testing Conference (NCME sponsored), Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1970.

Test construction and test analysis workbook. Document prepared for use in workshops on test development, November 1969.

Special studies. Chapter six of The College Board Technical Manual William Angoff (Ed.), CEEB 1970. (With Marjorie O. Chandler)

Recognition memory for approximation to English in deaf and hearing subjects at three age levels. ETS TDR-71-1. March 1971.

Relationship of verbal ability to English language achievement. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Catholic Educational Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 1971.

Criterion-referenced interpretations of survey achievement tests. ETS TDM-71-1. January 1972.

Planning a test. Filmstrip with associated audio track and printed supplementary materials. ETS, March 1972.

Student involvement in test development: A case study. ETS TDR-72-3. May 1973. (With C. Jones and W. Kastrinos)

Ego organization and scientific careers. Paper presented at New York Psychoanalytic Institute. June 8, 1972. (With Rosett, Robbins, and Watson)

Recognition memory for approximations to English in deaf and hearing subjects at three age levels. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, September 1972.

Criterion-referencing. Center for Statewide Educational Assessment Newsletter. 1972, 1, (2), 2-4.

Review of criterion reading: Individualized learning management system. The Reading Teacher. 1973, 26, 521-527.

Developing a criterion-referenced assessment program. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, New Orleans, February 1973.

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Services in the area of criterion-referenced and objectives-referenced measurement: What, why, and where next. Paper adapted from a presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, March 1973.

Criterion-referenced testing and language skills: A working bibliography. November 1972 and May 1973. (With Joan Knapp)

Measuring learning in common body of knowledge subject areas: A test developer's view. AACSB Bulletin. 1973, 10, 22-24.

Criterion-referenced testing: Definitions and applications. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the College Entrance Examination Board, New York City, October 1973.

Applications of criterion-referencing to schools. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Educational Records Bureau, New York City, November 1973. (ETS RM-74-10, May 1974).

Developing tests for assessment programs: Issues and suggested procedures. Princeton, New Jersey: Center for Statewide Educational Assessment, January 1974.

Criterion-referenced testing. Presentation at the Educational Staff Seminar. (Co-sponsored by RAND and ETS) Princeton, N.J., February 1974.

Development of handbook for conducting task analyses and developing criterion- referenced tests of language skills. ETS PR-74-11, March 1974. (With Michael Zieky, Gary Marco, and Susan Valentine)

Handbook for conducting task analyses and developing criterion-referenced tests of Language skills. ETS PR-74-12, March 1974. (With Matthew Sherman and Michael Zieky, Editors)

Considerations concerning the development of objectives and associated test questions for objectives-referenced or criterion-referenced testing. NCME sponsored presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Atlantic City, April 1974.

Standardized intelligence tests. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Art Admissions Officers, New York, April 1974.

Assessing competency with tests. Presentation at Naval Reserve Research Co. No. 4, Princeton, New Jersey, June 1974.

Criterion-referenced testing. Director of NCME-sponsored discussion session at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-South Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1974.

Criterion-referenced testing, the state of the art. Presentation at Governors State University, February 1975.

Development of school-based criterion-referenced testing systems. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Washington, D.C., April 1975.

Handbook of management standards for awarding high school diplomas. Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education, September 1975. (With George Elford, Robert Kates, and Kathleen Rice)

Setting and evaluating criterion standards. Chapter 2 of CAEL Project Report: Implementing a Program for Assessing Experiential Learning. Princeton, New Jersey, CAEL, Educational Testing Service, January 1976.

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Graduating early: The question of an equivalency examination for Florida High School Students. Report prepared for the Florida Department of Education, August 1976. (With Hervey Scudder and Judy Willingham)

The validity and uses of testing and new forms of assessment -- an issue for school boards; minimum skills performance testing and high school graduation requirements. Presentation at the meeting of the New England/Mid Atlantic School Board Association Leaders, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, September 1976.

Criterion-referenced tests and basic education. Presentation at the Conference of Directors of State Testing Programs, Princeton, New Jersey, October 31- November 1, 1976.

Assessment of basic skills across the nation. Presentation at meeting of Bay Area Council on Measurement and Evaluation in Education, Hayward California, January 1977.

Practical considerations in reporting the results of tests of educational achievement. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of National Council on Measurement in Education, New York City, April 1977.

Setting and evaluating competency standards for awarding high school diplomas. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of National Council on Measurement in Education, New York City, April 1977.

Minimal basic competency in reading: What should be measured? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York City, April 1977.

Standards, competency-based promotion, differential diplomas and their impact on graduation requirements. Presentation at College Entrance Examination Board Major School Systems meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1977.

Setting standards for basic skills reading assessment. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association, Miami Beach, Florida, May 1977.

Some implications of diplomas by testing. Presentation at the Conference on Large Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1977.

Assessment of basic skills: The state of the art. Presentation at the New Jersey School Boards Association meeting, Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 1977.

Minimal competency tests - what do they measure? Presentation at Educational Records Bureau Annual Meeting, New York City, October 1977.

The real world of testing for minimum essentials: General issues confronted in developing the Basic Skills Assessment. Presentation at the Conference of Directors of State Testing Programs, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1977.

Minimum competency testing: Fad or fashion? Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1978. (a second presentation was made at the first regional version of the conference in Gaylord, Michigan in April 1978.)

In response to Gene Glass. Article on the minimum competency movement. Phi Delta Kappan, May 1978.

Positive aspects of minimum competency testing. Presentation at the Alabama Conference on Minimum Competency Testing, University of Alabama, May 1978.

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Nature of minimal competency tests and the issues of proficiency standards. Presentation at the Invitational Conference on Minimal Competency Testing for military personnel, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, May 1978.

Setting test performance standards by a process that is technically and educationally sound. Presentation at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1978.

Development of a National Basic Skills Testing Program. Presentation at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1978.

Minimum competency testing: Major issues and suggestions for school districts. Presentation at Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit #13 Superintendents' Retreat, Pocono Hershey Hotel, September 1978.

Establishing cut-off scores (and) Selecting items to measure skills: What kinds and how many. Presentations at the HBJ 1978 Gulf Coast Invitational Conference on Measurement in Education, Tallahassee, Florida, October 1978.

Review of major issues in minimum competency testing. Presentation at Northeastern Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Ellenville, New York, October 1978.

Guidelines for developing and using minimum competency tests. Paper for the AERA Topical Conference, Minimum Competency Achievement Testing: Motives, Models, Measures and Consequences, Washington, D.C., October 1978. (With Michael Zieky)

Using and interpreting the results of criterion-referenced tests: Promise, progress, and unresolved problems. Presentation at the First Annual Johns Hopkins University National Symposium on Educational Research, Washington, D.C., October 1978.

Minimum competency testing: Fad or fashion? Keynote address at Seventh Annual Mid-South Educational Research Association Meeting, New Orleans, November 1978.

Current issues in educational testing: Setting standards for students, school programs, and testing. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the European Council of International Schools, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1978.

Critical issues in testing. Distinguished Visitor presentation at Louisiana State University, LSU Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, Annual Lawrence Lecture, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 1979.

Critical issues in minimal competency testing. Presentation at the Second Annual School Leadership Conference, Northern Kentucky University, March 1979.

The role of testing in developing competence in adolescents. Paper prepared for New Jersey Educational Research Association meeting, East Brunswick, New Jersey, April 1979.

Why should some tests be secure? Paper prepared for spring conference of the National Consortium on Testing, Arlington, Virginia, April-May 1979.

Learning from and responding to criticism of educational testing. Presentation at session "An Analysis of Testing Criticism: What do the Critics Say, What Should Testers Do?" Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Denver, Colorado, June 1979.

Critical issues in minimal competency testing. Presentation at the Elementary School Heads Association 1979 Conference, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1979.

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Critical issues in minimal competency testing. Presentation at the New Jersey Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Annual Conference, Somerset, New Jersey, November 1979.

Minimum competency testing. Presentation at "Issues in Testing" seminar for the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit, Princeton, New Jersey, November 1979.

Basic skills assessment. Presentation at workshop for the Mercer County Personnel and Guidance Association, Princeton, New Jersey, December 1979.

Planning and development of assessment instruments. Presentation for the task forces of the North Carolina Quality Assurance Program for the State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, North Carolina, December 1979.

Measurement of reading as a basic skill. Keynote presentation at workshops held by Addison-Wesley at Saddlebrook, New Jersey and Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, January 1980.

Minimum competency testing: Issues and implications. Presentation at the joint conference of the Texas Society of College Teachers of Education and the Texas Association of Teacher Educators, San Antonio, Texas, April 1980.

Goals and standards setting in competency programs. Presentation at the Annual Large School Systems Invitational Conference on Measurement in Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 1980.

A look into the crystal ball: Testing needs for the 1980's. Presentation at the Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1980.

A Balanced view of admissions testing. Debate with Ralph Nader and Stanley Kaplan at the Distinguished Lecture Series for The William Paterson College in Wayne, New Jersey, October 1980.

Adapting and interpreting standardized tests for handicapped students. Paper presented at the National Conference on Minimum Competency Testing for Handicapped Students, Orlando, Florida, February 1981.

Impact of test disclosure legislation on test development. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, April 1981.

Impact of test disclosure legislation on national testing programs. Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1981.

Truth in testing. Debate with Allan Nairn (author of the Reign of ETS) at the Florida Educational Research Association meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, November 1981.

Standardized tests and handicapped students: Test development and interpretation. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 1982.

Truth in testing: The New York experience. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 1982.

Adapting standardized tests for handicapped students. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of NCME in New York, March 1982.

Testing for the 80's. Keynote address at conference at the Educational Improvement Center-Northeast in West Orange, New Jersey, May 1982.

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Test disclosure legislation and how it has affected testing. Address to Greater Trenton Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi in Princeton, May 1982.

Setting standards for tests: Development and use. Presentation at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1982.

Have we reached any consensus about competency testing and standards setting? Presentation at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1983.

Will competency testing of teachers or students improve excellence in education? Presentation at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, November 1983.

Equating different forms of tests. Presentation of the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1984.

Future role of assessment. Presentation of the Annual Conference on Large- Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1984.

Using microcomputers to develop tests: An alternative point of view. Educational Measurement, Volume 3, No. 2, Summer 1984.

Current developments in psychological testing. Presentation at meeting of the Cleveland Psychological Association, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1984.

Major developments in testing. Presentation at the Granite City School District Fall Educational Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1984.

Current trends in testing. Presentation at the Florida Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 1984.

Trends in test content and use. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1985.

What's going on in the assessment of higher order skills? Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1985.

Future trends in testing. Presentation at the Los Angeles Unified School District Testing Conference, Los Angeles, California, March 1985.

Appropriate quality assurance roles for professional associations. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, Illinois, April 1985.

Current trends in testing. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Florida Association of School Administrators, Orlando, Florida, June 1985.

An overview of changes and trends in state-level assessment programs. Presentation at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1985.

How does the testing industry ensure the usefulness of standardized test scores? Presentation at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1985.

Current and future uses of microcomputers in achievement and guidance testing. Presentation at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1985.

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Progress of working group on the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California, August 1985.

Ethical concerns in computer-based testing. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California, August 1985.

Should intelligence tests be used in the schools?: A balanced perspective. Presentation at the Northeastern Educational Research Association Annual Convocation, Kerhonksen, New York, October 1985.

Item bias in state testing programs. Presentation at the Conference of Directors of State Testing Programs, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1985.

Applying the 1985 test standards to the development and use of tests. Presentation at the Florida Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, November 1985.

Issues in large-scale writing assessments. Indiana University Conference on Language Assessment, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 1986.

What are critics saying about testing and why? Presentation at the Connecticut Assessment Conference, New Haven, Connecticut, April 1986.

Critique and perspective on trends in testing and evaluation. Presentation at the Connecticut Assessment Conference, New Haven, Connecticut, April 1986.

Procedures for developing a Code of Fair Testing in Education. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California, April 1986.

Review of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, in Journal of Educational Measurement, 1986, 23, 94-96.

Code of fair testing in education. Educational Measurement, Volume 5, No. 2, Summer 1986.

Procedures for developing a code of fair testing in education. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August 1986. (With Theodore P. Bartell)

The assessment of higher-order thinking skills: Recent Developments. Chapter in Assessing Higher Order Thinking Skills, ERIC/Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation, Report 90, 1986. (With Mark Daniel)

Should intelligence tests be used in the schools?: A balanced perspective. NERA Researcher, September 1986.

What's going on in the assessment of higher order skills? Presentation at Washington Educational Research Association Meeting, Bellevue, Washington, October 1986.

Measurement 1986 and beyond. Presentation at Texas Association for Counseling and Development Conference, Waco, Texas, October 1986.

Alternative considerations in implementing state by state comparisons. Presentation at the Conference of Directors of State Testing Programs, Princeton, New Jersey, October 1986.

The future of educational and employment testing. Presentation at the Planning Conference of The Commission on Testing and Public Policy, Berkeley, California, December 1986.

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The call for national indicators of student achievement: Implications for assessment in Texas. Presentation at Annual Texas Testing Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, February 1987.

Rethinking of education and educational measurement for the 21st century. Presentation at the Northwest Evaluation Association Meeting, Olympia, Washington, March 1987.

Using the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education to improve testing. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Measurement in Education, Washington, D.C., April 1987.

Turning psychological and measurement theory into practice: Current developments in testing and item writing. Presentation at the Annual Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Boulder, Colorado, June 1987. (With Gale H. Roid)

Using the Code of Fair Testing to improve testing. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York City, August 1987.

Promoting fairness in testing: Development of a code of good practice. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1988.

A Testmaker’s perspective on the question of bias in college admissions testing. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1988.

The Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1988.

Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1988.

Answering questions that students and parents ask most often about testing. Presentation at the National Conference of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1988.

Educational measurement: 1988 and beyond. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Consortium of Suburban Schools, Chicago, Illinois, November 1988.

Development of nationally available standardized tests. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1988.

Code of Fair Testing Practices. Presentation at the SRA Pergamon Conference on Testing and Measurement, Scottsdale, Arizona, November-December 1988.

New directions in school and college testing. Presentation at the Annual Washington State Assessment Conference, Seattle, Washington, December 1988.

Educational accountability: Ethics and fairness in testing. Presentation at Maryland State Department of Education, Educational Accountability Conference, Westminster, Maryland, December 1988.

Current activities of the Joint Committee on Testing Practices. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, California, March 1989.

Testing companies, trends, and policy issues: A current view from the testing industry. Chapter in Testing and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation: The Workplace and the Law. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, Massachusetts, 1989.

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The Joint Committee on Testing Practices and the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. Educational Measurement, Volume 8, No 1, Spring 1989, 23-24, with Esther Diamond).

Using the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education: Strengths and Limitations. Presentation at Spring Conference of the Personnel Testing Council of Southern California, Culver City, California, May 1989.

Code of Fair Testing Practices. Presentation at the Annual Assessment Conference of the Education Commission of the States and the Colorado Department of Education, Boulder, Colorado, June 1989.

Developing a Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. American Psychologist, Volume 44, No 7, July 1989, 1062-1067. (With Esther Diamond and Wayne Camara)

Advancing fairness in educational testing: Present efforts, additional needs. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1989.

Measuring your performance as a user of standardized tests. Presentation at the National Conference of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, New York, New York, October 1989.

Guiding student preparation for college. Paper prepared for College Board Commission for New Possibilities for the Admissions Testing Program, November 1989.

Who is really responsible for improving testing in this country? Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1990

Understanding testing: All I know is what I read in the papers. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1990.

What is so real about authentic assessment? Presentation at the Annual Assessment Conference of the Education Commission of the States and the Colorado Department of Education, Boulder, Colorado, June 1990.

What's wrong with testing and what can we do about it? Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Educational Records Bureau, New York City, October 1990.

New possibilities in the Admissions Testing Program. Presentation at the College Board National Forum, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1990.

Performance assessment in Utopia and other places. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1991. (with Clare Burstall)

What's wrong with standardized testing and what can we do about it? Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1991.

Changes to the College Board SAT: What, why, when, and the implications for our students. Presentation at the Annual Statewide Conference of the Hispanic Association for Higher Education of New Jersey, Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 1991.

Ethical conduct in high stakes testing. Keynote address at the Annual Texas Testing Conference, Austin, Texas, March 1991.

The new College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test: What, why, and how. Presentation at the Annual Spring Conference of the Personnel Testing Council of Northern California, Sacramento, California, March 1991.

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Regaining Trust report: A possible course of action. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, Illinois, April 1991.

Performance testing and standardized testing: What are their proper places? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, Illinois, April 1991. (Paper subsequently published by National Association of Test Directors.)

Performance assessment and accountability programs: Match or Mismatch. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1991.

Changing large scale assessment programs: Learning from the experience of others. Presentation at the Annual Assessment Conference of the Education Commission of the States and the Colorado Department of Education, Breckinridge, Colorado, June 1991.

Reporting authentic assessment: Is calamity brewing? Presentation at the Annual Assessment Conference of the Education Commission of the States and the Colorado Department of Education, Breckinridge, Colorado, June 1991.

Do alternative assessments comply with the AERA/APA/NCME Standards for Testing? Presentation at the Annual Assessment Conference of the Education Commission of the States and the Colorado Department of Education, Breckinridge, Colorado, June 1991.

Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. Presentation at the Hawaii Department of Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 1991.

Edumetric considerations in the design of the New SAT. Presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California, August 1991.

Responding to student and parent questions about testing for college. Presentation at the National Conference of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1991.

Standards for educational testing. Presentation at the Policy Seminar on Educational Assessment, Sponsored by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, the Michigan State Board of Education, and the National Conference of State Legislatures, Lansing, Michigan, October 1991.

Preserving ethics in testing as accountability pressures increase. Presentation at the Annual Testing Conference of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Greensboro, North Carolina, January 1992.

Increasing public understanding of testing. Presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Association for Counseling and Development, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1992.

Teachers College and testing: The debate continues. Emeriti-sponsored seminar, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, April 1992.

Edumetric considerations in the design of the New SAT. Presentation at the World Congress of Comparative Education, Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 1992.

Edumetric considerations in the design of the New SAT. Presentation at the International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium, July 1992.

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High-stakes testing and gatekeeper uses of assessment in school and college testing. Presentation at the Centennial Convention of the American Psychological Association as part of the symposium "One hundred years of psychological testing," Washington, DC, August 1992.

Ethical conduct in high stakes testing and performance-based assessment. Keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Florida Educational Research Association, Orlando, Florida, November 1992.

Florida's Blueprint 2000: An assessment perspective. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Florida Educational Research Association, Orlando, Florida, November 1992.

Creating quality measures for improved accountability. Presentation at the South Texas Assessment and Evaluation Conference, South Padre Island, Texas January 1993.

Transition 2000: Computer-based testing. Presentation at the Middle States Regional Meeting of the College Board, Washington, DC, February 1993.

Computer-based testing implementation issues. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1993.

What should determine the content of the SAT? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the national Council on Measurement in Education, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1993.

What's wrong with testing and what can we do about it? Presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, August 1993.

Innovations in college admissions testing: New aspects of the SAT. Presentation at the Annual Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1994.

Meeting professional and educational standards for performance assessment. Presentation at the Annual Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1994.

What is/was this thing called "intelligence" and how do we know? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1994.

Development and use of the New SAT. Presentation at the Columbus Public Schools, Columbus, Ohio, May 1994.

Helping people understand standardized testing -William H. Angoff's contributions. Presentation at the American Psychological Association's Annual Convention, Los Angeles, California, August 1994.

Awaiting you on the assessment horizon: Computerized adaptive testing. Presentation at the Assessment 95 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Assessment in Counseling and the ERIC Counseling and Student Services Clearinghouse, Tucson, Arizona, January 1995.

A videotape for schools. Presentation at the Assessment 95 Conference, Co-sponsored by the Association for Assessment in Counseling and the ERIC Counseling and Student Services Clearinghouse, Tucson, Arizona, January 1995.

Ethics in classroom testing: What is cheating? Presentation at the Annual Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1995.

Computer-based testing: Where are we now, where are we headed? Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1995.

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Briefing on the New SAT. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Equal Opportunity Development Fund Association, Newark, New Jersey, March 1995.

What were the reactions to changes in the SAT? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, California, April 1995.

The ABC's of school testing: What teachers and parents would like to know. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, California, April 1995.

Use of a statement of test taker rights in educational testing. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, California, April 1995.

Computerized testing in education: Where are we now and where are we going? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Assessment in Counseling, Denver, Colorado, April 1995.

The ABCs of School Testing. Presentation at the National Conference on Large Scale Assessment, Phoenix, Arizona, June 1995.

SAT score scale change. Presentation at the National Conference on Large Scale Assessment, Phoenix, Arizona, June 1995.

Admissions to universities and colleges: Values and new techniques. Presentation at the European Congress of Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 1995.

Lessons for testers from the NACAC Commission on Standardized Testing Report. Presentation at the National Conference of the National Association of College Admission Counselors, Boston, Massachusetts, September 1995.

Using the ABCs of School Testing to improve the quality of assessment. Presentation at the Oakland County Curriculum Council, Pontiac, Michigan, October 1995.

The use and misuse of tests in an educational setting. Presentation at the New Jersey Association for Assessment in Counseling, Lincroft, New Jersey, October 1995.

Balance between multiple choice and performance assessment. Presentation at the Public Schools of North Carolina 1995 Accountability Testing Conference, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, October 1995.

Use of a statement of test-taker rights in educational testing. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, Florida, December 1995.

Joint Committee on Testing Practices works to improve quality of testing. Score, Volume 19, No. 1 January 1996

SAT and ACT: Separating fact from fiction. Presentation at the College Board Southwest Regional Meeting, Houston, Texas, February 1996.

Alternative assessments and national standards: The cart before the horse? Presentation at the College Board Western Regional Meeting, San Francisco, California, February 1996.

“ABC’s of School Testing:” What parents want to know. Presentation at the Annual Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1996.

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Developments in national assessment programs in the US. Presentation at the “Advances in Assessment of Student Learning” Conference, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, May 1996.

The balance between multiple choice and performance assessment. Presentation at the 1996 CCSSO National Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Phoenix, Arizona, June 1996.

Public perceptions of educational testing: Four controversies. Presentation at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, August 1996.

Promoting high standards for test use: Developments in the US. European Journal of Psychology, Volume 12, No. 2, 1996, 160-168.

Test-taker rights and responsibilities. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1997.

Separating fact from fiction in statements about college admissions testing. Presentation at The College Board Middle States Regional Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, February 1997.

Test development: Issues and suggested procedures. Presentation in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Testing and Evaluation Center lecture series, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, March 1997.

Admission to U.S. universities and colleges. Presentation in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Testing and Evaluation Center lecture series, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, March 1997.

Improving testing and assessment practices. Presentation at the American Counseling Association World Conference, Orlando, Florida, April 1997.

National tests and the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. Presentation at the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council/ Board on Testing and Assessment Workshop on Voluntary National Tests of Reading and Mathematics Achievement: Regulatory and Licensing Issues, Washington, D.C., June 1997.

Ethics in educational testing at the state level. What is so hard to understand? Presentation at the Annual Assessment Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 1997.

Making sense of testing, Plansmart, Volume 1, No. 2, Fall 1997

Understanding testing. Presentation at the Assessment 98 Conference of the Association for Assessment in Counseling, St. Petersburg, Florida, January 1998.

The Politics of testing: Its uses and abuses. Presentation at the Western Regional Meeting of the College Board, Pasadena, California, February 1998.

National and state standards and assessments. Presentation at the Western Regional Meeting of the College Board, Pasadena, California, February 1998.

Public concerns about standardized testing in education. Presentation at the Middle States Regional Meeting of the College Board, Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 1998.

The rights and responsibilities of test takers. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Measurement in Education, San Diego, California, April 1998.

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An Educational test developer's perspective on the rights and responsibilities of test takers. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on measurement in Education, San Diego, California, April 1998.

What do the AERA/APA/NCME testing standards mean to state and local testers? Presentation at the CCSSO Annual National Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 1998.

Strategies for evaluating school level tampering. Presentation at the CCSSO Annual National Conference on Large Scale Assessment, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 1998.

Testing issues in the United States: Guidelines and responses from the Joint Committee on Testing Practices (JCTP). Presentation at the Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1999.

“Review of test taker rights and responsibilities.” Presentation at the Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1999.

Tools for improving test use in assessment and appraisal. Presentation at the World Conference of the American Counseling Association, San Diego, California, April 1999.

What parents would like to know about standardized testing. Presentation at the CCSSO Annual National Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Snowbird, Utah, June 1999.

Testing and assessment in the service of training. Presentation at the International Finance Corporation International Conference on Education and Training, Washington, DC, June 1999.

“Assessment – How in the world did we get here?” Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2000.

“What parents need to learn about assessment – and how to teach them.” Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2000.

“Materials for improving test use by counselors.” Presentation at the American Counseling Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, March 2000.

“Promoting parents’ assessment literacy: A pooling of procedural ploys.” Presentation at the CCSSO Annual National Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, Snowbird, Utah, June 2000.

Helping parents to understand test scores and standardized testing. Presentation at the Educational Records Bureau Annual Conference, New York City, New York, October 2000.

Using the AERA/APA/NCME Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing to improve the quality of testing. Presentation at the Fourth Forum on Educational Evaluation, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, October – November 2000.

Standards in psychological and educational testing. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Florida Educational Research Association, Tallahassee, Florida, November 2000.

How assessments can be useful in informing the policy debate and investments. Presentation at the National Conference and Technical Group Meeting, Islamabad, Pakistan, November 2000.

Materials for improving test use by counselors: Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. Presentation at American Counseling Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 2001.

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The Top Ten Things Parents Want to Know about Testing: How NCME can help. Presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Seattle, Washington, April 2001.

In search of fair large-scale assessments: Testing students with disabilities. Presentation at the CCSSO National Conference on Large Scale Assessment, Houston, Texas, June 2001.

Developing, promoting, and revising a plain language Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education. Presentation at the European Congress of Psychology, London, England, July 2001.

Computer-Based Testing: Building the Foundations for Future Assessments, published in 2002 by Lawrence Erlbaum, Co-editor with Craig N. Mills, Maria Potenza, and William C, Ward. Postsecondary admissions testing. Chapter in Assessing Individuals with Disabilities, Edited by Ruth B. Ekstrom & Douglas K. Smith, published in 2002 by the American Psychological Association, Co-author with Julie P. Noble and Wayne Camara. Titans of testing. Keynote session at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, Palm Springs, California, February 2004. Ten things that parents really want to know about testing. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2004. Identifying, investigating, correcting, and preventing Test Cheating. Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2004.

What’s right with testing? Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2004. Exposing the ten most wanted test cheaters. Presentation at the Washington Certification Network, Alexandria, Virginia, March 2004. Why use tests and assessments? Chapter One in Measuring up: Assessment Issues for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators, Edited by Janet E. Wall & Gary R. Walz, published in 2004 by ERIC Counseling and Student Services Clearinghouse and the National Board of Certified Counselors. Security planning. Presentation at the Caveon Security Summit, Snowbird, Utah, September 2004. Exposing the ten most wanted cheaters. Presentation at the NOCA Annual Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, November 2004. Titans of testing - #2 keynote session at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, February, 2005. Using humor in presentations about testing. Poster session at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 2005. Reducing cheating on state assessments. Presentation at the CCSSO National Conference on Large Scale Assessment, San Antonio, June 2005. Codes of conduct for testing: A National perspective. Presentation at the Washington Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, December 2005, Seattle, Washington.

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Securing and proctoring online assessments. Chapter 13 in Online Assessment and Measurement: Foundations and Challenges, edited by Mary Hricko and Scott L. Howell, Idea Group, 2005. (With Jamie Mulkey as senior author) Trends in testing: The UK, US, Europe and beyond. Session at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, February 2006. Setting standards for test security. What do we need? What do we have? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, California, April 2006. Ten most wanted cheaters on state assessments and the methods they use. Presentation at the CCSSO National Conference on Large Scale Assessment, San Francisco, California, June 2006. What a tangled web they weave: Coping with the top ten cheaters on educational tests. General session presentation at the Texas Assessment Conference, Austin, Texas, December 2007. Using statistical indicators of possibly inappropriate testing behavior. Presentation at the Texas Assessment Conference, Austin, Texas, December 2007. “True” confessions of low down, dirty rotten, cheaters: How they cheated and how they were caught. Presentation at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, Palm Springs, California, February 2007. The daily test security show. Presentation at the NOCA Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November, 2007. Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater: How to beat the cheats. Presentation at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, March 2008, Dallas, Texas. The Best Practices Working Group: Update on operational best practices. Presentation at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, March 2008, Dallas, Texas. Confront test fraud head On: A Team approach. Presentation at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, March 2008, Dallas, Texas. Current status of national and state efforts to ensure fairness in educational assessment by preventing and detecting cheating. Presentation at the CCSSO National Conference on Student Assessment, June 2008, Orlando, Florida. Taking control: Strategies for regaining the initiative in the struggle to deter and detect test cheating. Presentation at the Sixth Conference of the International Test Commission, July 2008, Liverpool, England. Test Security Threats to Validity. Presentation at the Association of Test Publishers Annual Conference, February 2009, Palm Springs, California. A Formal debate regarding the instructional sensitivity of items on educational accountability tests. Presentation at the CCSSO National Conference on Student Assessment, June 2009, Los Angeles, California.

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State Assessments: Following the Rules. Presentation at the CCSSO National Conference on Student Assessment, June 2009, Los Angeles, California. Formal Debate – Instructional Sensitivity. Presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, May 2010, Denver, Colorado. Ten commandments of test security. Presentation at European Association of Test Publishers Conference, July 2010, Sitges, Spain. International trends in test security. Presentation at the International Test Commission Conference, July 2010, Hong Kong. Ten commandments of test security. Presentation at European Association of Test Publishers Conference, September 2010, Sitges, Spain.

WORKSHOPS AND COURSES

Workshops on item writing and test development procedures (1966-1976) Niagara Falls Public Schools, New York; Archdiocese of Philadelphia Schools; Academic Evaluation Council, Detroit, Michigan; University of Puerto Rico; Miami Dade Junior College; Sparta Public Schools, New Jersey; Florence, Public Schools, New Jersey; Hopewell Valley Public Schools, New Jersey.

Why make your own tests of reading? Paper presented at test construction workshops at the In-Service Program for Teachers sponsored by the Board of Education, Niagara Falls, N.Y., and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Secondary Schools, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1967.

Developed and presented section on measurement indicators and criterion- referenced testing for initial ETS Programs of Continuing Education Course - "Assessment and Evaluation in Education and Planning," (1971) participated as speaker and discussion leader for four subsequent versions of the course (1971-73).

Test construction and analysis in relation to minority/poverty students. Paper presented at Essex County College Workshop for New Jersey Junior Colleges on Testing Problems. March 1971.

Developed and presented sections on instrumentation for state assessment and on criterion-referenced testing for Center for Statewide Educational Assessment workshop for staff at State Department of Education, Sacramento, California, December 1972.

Developmental Chairman (With Michael Zieky) of ETS Programs of Continuing Education 4-1/2 day Intensive Residence Course - "Criterion-Referenced and Objectives-Referenced Measurement" - Chairman and/or session leader at initial course in September 1973, and for subsequent course meetings two to three times each year for seven years. Developed and presented one-day abbreviation of course for post-conference workshop at College Board Northeast Regional Office Annual Meeting, Newton, Massachusetts, February 1975.

Workshop on "Attitudes toward School" at the Annual Conference of the Educational Records Bureau, New York City, October 1974.

Developed and presented workshop - "Designing and Developing a School-based Criterion-Referenced Testing System" Paramus, New Jersey School District Leadership Conference, November 1974.

Developed and presented - "Criterion Standards" at Cooperative Assessment of Experiential Learning (CAEL) workshop, St. Louis, Missouri, September 1975.

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Conducted workshop on Planning a Test, Writing Test Questions/Items, Reviewing Items and Tests at the American Medical Records Association Educator's Workshop, Miami Beach, Florida, October 1975.

Served as presenter and resource person on "Evaluation of Work Learning Programs" at the Education Development Center, Work Learning Conference, Natick, Massachusetts, December 1975.

Developed and presented workshop - "Designing School Testing Programs." Hunterdon County, New Jersey School Superintendents' Conference, May 1976.

Conducted workshop on "Competency Based Education, Criterion-Referenced Testing, Setting Standards for Tests" at the American Medical Records Association Educators' Workshop, Toronto, Canada, September 1976.

Guest speaker on "Criterion-Referenced Testing" at the Teacher/Learning Task Force Workshop on Test Construction and Analysis, sponsored by Mercer County Community College, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1977.

Leader of conference on "Evaluating Student Progress in Relation to Competency Based Education" sponsored by Lehigh Valley School Study Council, Mt. Pocono, Pennsylvania, September 1977.

Conducted workshop on strategies for developing minimal level skills examinations for the Duval County Schools, Jacksonville, Florida, December 1977.

Presented workshop on "Developing Minimum Competency Testing Programs" for the South Carolina Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Columbia, South Carolina, January 1978.

Conducted workshop on "Models for Developing Minimum Competency Tests" at Kanawha County Schools, Charleston, West Virginia, February 1978 and August 1978.

Conducted a Standards Setting/Test Assembly workshop at the New Hampshire Accountability Assessment Consortium in Concord, New Hampshire, June 1980.

Developed and presented workshop on "The Art of Pretesting Achievement Test Items" at World Bank Seminar on Using Examinations and Testing to Improve Educational Quality, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 1989.

Keynote speaker on "Authenticity, Validity, and Efficiency: The Fit between Conventional and Authentic Assessment" at Kent Intermediate School District Workshop, Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 1992.

Developed and presented workshops on "Issues in Testing: What you should know to help students,” Princeton, New Jersey, for the National Urban League (February 1992) and ASPIRA (March 1992).

Developed and presented unit on "District Level Assessment Issues" at the North Central Michigan College Workshop, Charlesvoix-Emmet Intermediate School District, Michigan, May 1992.

Presented at workshop on "The New SAT I: Reasoning Tests" at the National Forum of the College Board, New York City, October 1992.

Presented unit on the New SAT and PSAT/NMSQT to Guidance Services Staff of the Columbus Public Schools, Columbus, Ohio, May 1994.

Presented unit on "Developing high professional standards for school assessment development and use" at the Symposium for Educational Leaders, Wintergreen, Virginia, July 1994.

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Presented a series of workshops on testing issues over a ten day period to the Department of Educational Measurement, Umea University, Umea, Sweden, November-December 1994.

Conducted workshop on “Controversial issues in large-scale assessment, Using appropriate standards, Performance-based assessment, and The Value of testing” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, May 1996.

Conducted workshop on “Developing, implementing, and evaluating selection testing programmes” at the Port Elizabeth Technikon, South Africa, May 1998.

Presented workshops on testing issues to the Department of Educational Measurement, Umea University, Umea, Sweden, August 1999.

Designed and presented a series of workshops on testing as part of my position as Director of Education, ETS Global Institute, July 2000 – October 2003

Conducted workshop of Test Security Planning and Risk Analysis (with Laura Edgar, Steve Addicott, and Gary Smith) at the National Organization of Competency Assurance (NOCA) Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 2006.

CONSULTATION

Construction of tests of concept attainment in four subject matter fields, Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning, December 1969;

Admissions procedures and collection and analysis of follow-up data on graduates, The Cooper Union, New York City, 1970-76;

Development of objectives for introductory psychology course, Columbia University, September 1972 - April 1972;

Evaluating competencies of high school graduates, California Dept. of Education, March 1974;

Development of functional literacy examination, Duval County, Florida, School Board, August to October 1974;

Assessing competencies of student nurses, Governors State University, February 1975.

Write summary statements re: U.S. reading and mathematics education, TEAM Associates, November 1975;

Evaluating experiential learning, Community College of Vermont, February 1976.

Experienced Based Career Education Evaluators' Meeting on Program Outcomes, Research for Better Schools, San Francisco, California, April 1976.

Development of minimal level skills tests, Duval County School Board, Florida, October 1977 - January 1978;

Prepared policy papers on high school diplomas and transcripts and on remedial program for the New Jersey Department of Education, January 1978;

Development of high school competency examinations, Kanawha County, West Virginia, December 1977 - 1980;

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Review of state assessment plans - Pennsylvania, June 1978, Maryland, June 1978, Florida, July 1981;

Review of Title One/Chapter One Evaluation Models, Department of Education, Washington, D.C., July 1985;

Development of critical thinking tests, NFER Publishing Company, United Kingdom, 1988.

Development of vocational guidance materials. SRA-Pergamon Publishing Co., 1988-89.

Review of procedures for determining qualifications of prospective test purchasers, National Computer Systems, 1989-90.

Review of standards for improving the quality of collecting and reporting information, Westat, 1990.

Review of plans and materials for New Jersey Early Warning Test, New Jersey Department of Education, 1991.

Chair of Testing Advisory Panel for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 1991-1999.

Review of plans to develop career interest inventory for Department of Defense Manpower Data Center, 1993 and 1994.

Developing college admissions and school achievement tests, National Testing Center, University of Umea, Sweden, November-December 1994.

Development of a testing and evaluation center, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, March 1997.

Development of admissions, placement, and evaluation instruments, University of Port Elizabeth and Port Elizabeth Technikon, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, May 1998.

Developing college admissions tests, program evaluation, and approaches to test design, August 1999, National Testing Center, University of Umea, August 1999.

Chair of international panel for the evaluation of the national college entrance examination system, Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, 2001-2002.

Developing large scale assessments, computer-based testing, and other topics – various countries participating in ETS Global Institute programs, 1999 –2003.

Developing and using tests. Trenton High School, Trenton New Jersey, March 2002.

Member of Technical Advisory Committee, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2003 – present.

Security consulting to admissions, certification, and state assessment clients, 2003-present.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association for Assessment in Counseling

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American Educational Research Association Association of Test Publishers

National Council on Measurement in Education Phi Beta Kappa Phi Delta Kappa