GeoVerse Lab
← Education & Training Development Division

Assessment & Certification Center

Designs assessment instruments and manages certification programs to ensure competency and quality assurance, implementing formative and summative assessments that credential learners against professional standards such as AAPG and SEG.

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Lee Cronbach🔑
⭐ Center Chief
Lee Cronbach
Center Head
💡 Cronbach's alpha, educational assessment
Frederic M. Lord🔑
1912–2000
Frederic M. Lord
Researcher
💡 Pioneered the application of item response theory to practical testing problems, laying the statistical foundation for computerized adaptive testing used by the SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT and TOEFL
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Louis Guttman🔑
1916–1987
Louis Guttman
Researcher
💡 Developed Guttman scaling (scalogram analysis), a deterministic latent-structure model that classifies respondents into discrete, ordered attribute patterns — the conceptual ancestor of modern cognitive diagnostic models
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E. F. Lindquist🔑
1901–1978
E. F. Lindquist
Researcher
💡 Created the ACT college admissions test and the Iowa Testing Programs, and pioneered large-scale machine-scored standardized test development
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Robert Glaser🔑
1921–2012
Robert Glaser
Researcher
💡 Coined and developed criterion-referenced testing, interpreting scores against fixed competency standards rather than a norm group, and pioneered individually prescribed instruction
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Harold Gulliksen🔑
1903–1996
Harold Gulliksen
Researcher
💡 Author of Theory of Mental Tests (1950), the standard synthesis of classical test theory and reliability estimation
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Nathan Mantel🔑
1919–2002
Nathan Mantel
Researcher
💡 Co-developed (with William Haenszel) the Mantel-Haenszel procedure, later adapted by ETS researchers as the standard statistical test for differential item functioning
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Ledyard Tucker🔑
1910–2004
Ledyard Tucker
Researcher
💡 Developed foundational test equating procedures (Tucker equating) and precursor work later formalized as the Angoff standard-setting method
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Michael Scriven🔑
1928–2023
Michael Scriven
Researcher
💡 Coined the formative/summative distinction in evaluation and developed goal-free evaluation methodology
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Goldine Gleser🔑
1915–2004
Goldine Gleser
Researcher
💡 Co-developed generalizability theory with Lee Cronbach, Nageswari Rajaratnam and Harinder Nanda, extending reliability theory to multi-facet measurement designs
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Georg Rasch🔑
1901–1980
Georg Rasch
Researcher
💡 Developed the Rasch (one-parameter logistic) model, founding modern item response theory and the property of specific objectivity
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Carl Brigham🔑
1890–1943
Carl Brigham
Researcher
💡 Created the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) for the College Board, establishing the modern norm-referenced large-scale aptitude testing paradigm
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Grant Wiggins🔑
1950–2015
Grant Wiggins
Researcher
💡 Co-created (with Jay McTighe) Understanding by Design, the backward-design framework for building performance tasks and scoring rubrics around transferable understanding
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Ralph W. Tyler🔑
1902–1994
Ralph W. Tyler
Researcher
💡 Founded modern program evaluation methodology (the 'Tyler rationale') and chaired the committee that created the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), earning the title 'father of educational evaluation and assessment'
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Fred M. Newmann🔑
1937–2023
Fred M. Newmann
Researcher
💡 Developed the framework of authentic intellectual work and authentic assessment criteria, linking student portfolios and tasks to real-world-relevant standards of scholarship
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William H. Angoff🔑
1920–1993
William H. Angoff
Researcher
💡 Developed the (modified) Angoff method for judgmentally setting cut scores on certification and licensure examinations
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Rensis Likert🔑
1903–1981
Rensis Likert
Researcher
💡 Developed the Likert scale, the summated multi-item rating-scale method now used worldwide to measure attitudes, satisfaction, and self-reported competencies
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David Krathwohl🔑
1921–2016
David Krathwohl
Researcher
💡 Co-authored (with Benjamin Bloom) the Affective Domain handbook of the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, and later co-led its 2001 cognitive-domain revision
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Samuel Messick🔑
1931–1998
Samuel Messick
Researcher
💡 Formulated the unified theory of validity treating construct validity as the whole of validity, including consequences of test use
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