马蒂亚斯·冯·达维尔（李·佩莱格里尼饰）
马蒂亚斯·冯·达维耶, Distinguished 太阳城官网 Scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners, 被命名为J. 唐纳德·莫南，S.J., University Professor in 教育 effective in fall 2020, Stanton E.F. 沃瑟姆，查尔斯F. 多诺万,年代.J., Dean of the Lynch School of 教育 and Human Development, has announced.
Von Davier succeeds Lynch School 太阳城官网 Professor Philip G. Altbach, who served as the Monan Professor in 教育 for nearly two decades. The professorship is named for the late 24th president of 太阳城网赌平台.
This spring, in advance of his faculty posting, von Davier will join the Lynch School-hosted TIMSS和PIRLS国际学习中心, which conducts regular international comparative assessments of student achievement in mathematics and science and reading, on behalf of the Netherlands-based International Association for the 评价 of 教育al Achievement. TIMSS and PIRLS enable participating countries to make evidence-based decisions for improving educational policy.
从秋天开始, von Davier will teach courses in psychometrics, 统计数据, 以及大规模的评估, 拉里·勒德洛说, professor and chair of the Lynch School’s Measurement, 评价, 统计数据, 及评核部.
“We are very pleased to have Professor von Davier join our faculty,” said Ludlow. “He not only brings technical expertise in a broad range of measurement and statistical domains, but also great creativity in recognizing and generating important problems and strategies for how to attack them. His name has already been mentioned in our Ph.D. 太阳城网赌平台申请, and we expect he will quickly attract additional highly talented masters and doctoral students to our department. We look forward to the new projects that he will add to our portfolio, and the many unique research opportunities that students will find available with him.”
Von Davier’s areas of expertise include item response theory, 称为IRT, 潜在类分析, 诊断分类模型, and the analytical methodologies used in large-scale educational surveys. 他目前的工作与延伸有关, implementing and applying multidimensional IRT, IRTree, 潜在反应模型, as well as speed/accuracy models to process data research using log-file and timing data from large-scale assessments.
“I very much look forward to joining the BC faculty,” he said. “I had heard about BC while working at the Institute for Science 教育. I was helping other research assistants as part of the German team of the 1995 TIMSS study, which was conducted by BC’s International Study Center. 自从来到美国.S. in 2000, I realized that there were so many scholars who either worked at BC, 在那里学习过, 或者有一个现在在BC工作的主管, or had some other form of association—all of whom had a strong connection to the educational measurement research I was conducting. 多年来, my connection to BC deepened as I got more involved in research on international comparative assessment and extended my collaboration with [TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center Executive Directors] Ina Mullis and Michael Martin and later, 林奇学派的亨利·布劳恩.
“One of the many strengths of BC is its ability to build and systematically support an area of leadership in an area of inquiry, and to attract students and faculty by fostering an environment that allows them to thrive and to develop globally recognized expertise. I am very excited to join this community and to work together with faculty and students on research that pushes the envelope of educational measurement and assessment in years to come.”
在他被NBME任命之前, an independent non-profit organization that conducts high-quality assessments of health care professionals, von Davier was a senior research director at the 教育al Testing Service’s 太阳城官网 & 发展部门, and co-director of ETS’s Center for 全球 Assessment, leading large-scale psychometric research and operational analysis for international comparative studies such as the Programme for International Student Assessment, and the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. He also served as the psychometric advisor delegated by ETS to serve as a member of the project management team of TIMSS and PIRLS.
Von Davier has authored and co-authored more than 130 research articles, 章节和太阳城官网报告, 编辑了五本书. 的创始联合编辑 大规模教育评估, a joint publication of the IEA and ETS, he was editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. 此外，他还是该系列的联合编辑 Methodology of 教育al Measurement and Assessment, 并担任执行主编 心理测量学这是心理测量学会的期刊.
His honors include the ETS 太阳城官网 Scientist award, the National Council of Measurement in 教育 Brad Hanson Award for Contributions to 教育al Measurement, and the American 教育al 太阳城官网 Association’s Division-D award for Significant Contributions to Measurement and 太阳城官网 Methodology.
Von Davier earned a doctorate in psychology with a specialty in psychometrics from Germany’s University of Kiel.
Phil Gloudemans | University Communications | January 2020