Stephen Murphy, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, GA, US

Georgia, United States

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Alpharetta, GA

Dover, New Hampshire

Merged Company - AdvancED and Measured Progress

Dover, New Hampshire

Rolling Meadows, IL

Assist Vice President in managing internal staff of psychometricians.Assist in the design and planning of psychometric solutions for product development or customer contracts.Plan and select appropriate statistical and psychometric techniques and methodologies involved in the accurate scoring, analysis, and reporting of program activities.Collaborate with.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Responsible for the leadership and direction of Psychometric Services across Pearson locations. In addition, he is responsible for the management of the full-range of psychometric support on national and state services.
• Work with leadership to establish strategic direction of the psychometric support for a wide range of assessment programs
• Lead the direction and management of talent in support of current and new assessment programs within psychometric services
• Direct managers and research scientists completing psychometric work to support a variety of testing programs, including developing budget, yearly resource planning, and training
• Organize and consult with internal and external groups on the design of assessment programs in meeting desired outcomes
• Provide full range of psychometric support to customers, develop innovative techniques and processes, and conduct cutting-edge research studies

• Manage research scientists and research associates completing psychometric work to support large-scale high-stakes testing programs, including developing budget, yearly resource planning, and training.
• Provide full range of psychometric support to state customers, develop innovative techniques and processes, and conduct cutting-edge research studies.
• Coordinate and consult on various and unique testing programs for design and implementation of calibration, linking, and equating analyses.
• Design and coordinate research studies, including analysis specifications, study documentation and formal oral or written reports.
• Organize and consult with internal and external groups on the form design and test construction process recognizing immediate and long-term implications.
• Demonstrate project management skills necessary to lead and direct all psychometric aspects of multiple assessment programs or research projects, or a single large and complex assessment program or research project.

• Lead psychometrician for multiple large-scale, high stakes end of instruction and 3-8 assessment programs
• Conduct, guide, design, and create technical documentation for scaling and equating
• Organize and coordinate with other research scientists, research assocaites, subject-matter experts, and/or the client all aspects of psychometric work supporting the testing programs
• Develop budgets and coordinate resources across programs
• Design research studies and research analysis specifications and coordinated study resources, completed documentation, and conducted formal reports for written and oral presentation
• Coordinate, write, and review technical design for proposals, as well as putting together the costs for the bid

• Lead psychometrician for large-scale, high stakes end of instruction assessment program
• Provide full-service psychometric activities including field test design, construction of operational test forms, calibration, equating, and scaling, data analysis (item analysis, differential item functioning, IRT.
• Provide psychometric support to other state testing programs

• Psychometric reviews (item analysis, reliability, and validity) of tests implemented for selection purposes
• Developed and analyzed multiple large databases for research on different personality inventories and job performance dimensions (database-level and meta-analytic-level analyses)
• Researched job analytic and personality assessment tools
• Analyzed job analysis, selection, and performance data to set guidelines, including cut scores, for implementing assessment procedures using multiple forms of validity evidence
• Research plan for implementing use of personality in international locations (norms/equivalence concerns)

• Developed testing programs for personnel selection through content-based job analytic techniques
• Implemented selection systems (MQs, interviews, etc.) based on outcomes from analysis of job data
• Developed tests in litigated environment where followed court agreed test development methodology
• Meticulously followed AERA, EEOC and SIOP guidelines for selection development and implementation

Phd, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Activities and Societies: Grant Lead and Research Assistant – Ethical Decision-Making • Psychometrically validated measures of ethical.

M.A., Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Ba/Ba, Psychology/Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Basketball