• Develop an appropriate test design including test specifications and pretest strategy for nationally created assessment instruments based on industry standards for security, validity reliability, fairness and defensibility.• Conduct and perform data analysis, such as classic and IRT analysis, reliability and validity analysis, experimental/confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and equating and vertical scaling on existing/developing test items utilizing Mplus, SPSS… Show more • Develop an appropriate test design including test specifications and pretest strategy for nationally created assessment instruments based on industry standards for security, validity reliability, fairness and defensibility.• Conduct and perform data analysis, such as classic and IRT analysis, reliability and validity analysis, experimental/confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and equating and vertical scaling on existing/developing test items utilizing Mplus, SPSS, and IRTPRO.• Produce technical documentation related to item, test and program performance, and periodic reports including tables and figures related to program performance. Show less

• Responsible for producing test instruments and assisting with the coordination of the Office of Test Development staff to plan, develop, facilitate, and revise locally created assessment instruments and materials.• Conducted IRT analyses on existing test items and determined the psychometric properties of test and test items to assist Test Development staff in building accurate, valid, and reliable tests and editing/revising items by producing detailed item analyses utilizing IRTPRO and… Show more • Responsible for producing test instruments and assisting with the coordination of the Office of Test Development staff to plan, develop, facilitate, and revise locally created assessment instruments and materials.• Conducted IRT analyses on existing test items and determined the psychometric properties of test and test items to assist Test Development staff in building accurate, valid, and reliable tests and editing/revising items by producing detailed item analyses utilizing IRTPRO and SPSS.• Prepared and edited interim reports, technical reports, final reports, letters, and internal memoranda Show less

- Tutored and assisted students individually and in small groups in order tohelp them master assignments and learn concepts presented by instructors. - Performed teaching-related duties including development of materials,preparation and administration of examinations, and grading.

- Managed CNS student data.- Conducted descriptive and inferential data analyses. - Produced and documented tabular and graphic results. - Extensive programming in SAS.- Evaluated several programs in CNS to improve the quality of the programs.

- Managed and created datasets from a large database.- Extensive programming in SAS.- Reviewed and created sample data sets utilizing SAS for graduate students from across the United States.

- Managed and created datasets from an extensive database utilizing SPSS.- Identified items posing potential problems in tests using SIBTEST and GMH computer programs based on item response theory (IRT).