Sandra Sweeney, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Adjunct lecturer for both undergraduate and graduate courses related to statistics, educational and psychological measurement, research methods, and diversity in education.

Collaborating with an interdisciplinary research team and public elementary schools to conduct research on computational thinking funds of knowledge of Black and Brown families. Designing professional development workshops for research teams that include teachers, researchers, and administrators on how to collect/analyze funds of knowledge data from children and families.

Teaching Assistant for Embracing Diversity undergraduate education course

Amherst, Ma

Amherst, Massachusetts

In this role I evaluated interim assessments and programmed an assessment evaluation tool for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, performed data analyses and investigated the predictive validity of a state-wide assessment, and completed decision accuracy and consistency studies for the 2018 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards exam.

Assisted with teach for the one undergraduate and one graduate statistics course.

Amherst, Ma

Assisted with assessment development for the Massachusetts Adult Proficiency Tests for math and reading which included constructing parallel assessments in a multi-stage adaptive test framework.

Amherst, Massachusetts

Graduate Research Assistant in the Research, Educational Measurement and Psychometrics department of the College of Education. Assisted with research related to educational measurement and validity for the adult education community, as well as research related to accelerated learning programs in developing countries.

Summer research internship during which I supported the company’s research agenda with regard to equity and innovation in assessment through data analysis and collaborative research. In addition, I continue to work alongside NWEA personnel on research related to culturally responsive assessment.

Princeton, New Jersey

While working under the mentorship of Sandip Sinharay, I conducted research about nature and consequence of the relationship between Item Response Theory (IRT) difficulty and discrimination parameters. Analyzed eight large testing data sets from grade six through college in various subjects. Designed and performed several simulation studies using R software. Authored a paper on the research that was published in the Journal of Educational Measurement.Reference:Sweeney, S. M., Sinharay, S., Johnson, M. S., & Steinhauer, E. W. (2022). An Investigation of the Nature and Consequence of the Relationship between IRT Difficulty and Discrimination. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 41(4), 50-67.

Amherst, Ma

Consulted on research and statistical methods for graduate students at faculty and taught statistical and measurement workshops for the College of Education.

South Hadley, Ma

Assisted with research related to adult literacy in the Cognition Lab of the Psychology department. In this role I collected and analyzed data from participants and initiated reliability studies for a battery of literacy tasks.

Assisted with teach for the Statistics classes in the Psychology department.

Stamford, Ct. Usa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Norwalk, Ct

Editor in Chief of NCC's Journal of the Arts

New Canaan, Ct

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Psychometrics And Quantitative Psychology

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychology, Senior

Activities and Societies: Student Government Association

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa