Congratulations to all those who have received awards from NCME!
The Alicia Cascallar Award for an Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Scholar was established to honor Alicia’s professional commitment and accomplishments. This year’s winner is Dr. Ye Ma for her paper “Analyzing Examinee Comments using DistilBERT and Machine Learning to Ensure Quality Control in Exam Content”.
The NCME Annual Award for Exceptional Achievement in Educational Measurement recognizes exceptional achievement in multiple categories during the previous three years, including an outstanding technical or scientific contribution, or in recognition of exceptional service. This year’s winner is Dr. Christina Cipriano for her innovative and groundbreaking work in applied educational measurement called Project Flourish promoting racial equity and social justice.
The Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement honors Bradley’s contributions to the field and further advances the goals embodied in his work. This year’s winners are Dr. Chun Wang and Dr. David Weiss for the project “Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Testing and Adaptive Measurement Change“.
The Brenda H. Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award honors an outstanding dissertation in the field of educational measurement. This year’s winners are Dr. Victoria Song and Dr. Matthew Naveiras. Dr. Song’s dissertation has been recognized for its innovative approach to addressing the diversity-validity dilemma in high-stakes selection. Dr. Naveiras’s dissertation advances the field of educational measurement by developing novel methods for analyzing process data and eye-tracking data in large-scale assessments.
The Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award, with the support of the Millman endowment, honors Dr. Millman’s work by recognizing a scholar at the early stages of his/her career. This year’s winner is Dr. Kylie Gorney in recognition of her exceptional contributions to applied measurement.
The NCME Award for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement honors a person whose contributions over a career have had a widespread positive impact on the field. This year’s winner is Dr. Sandip Sinharay in recognition of his remarkable contributions to educational measurement through prolific research, dedicated service, and influential mentorship.
Alicia Cascallar Award:
Dr. Yiqin Pan and Dr. Kaiwen Man
Dr. Pan has been recognized for the paper “A Weak Supervised Learning Approach for Detecting Item Preknowledge in CAT”. Dr. Man has been recognized for the paper “Detecting preknowledge cheating via innovative measures: A mixture hierarchical model for jointly modeling item responses, response times, and visual fixation counts”.
Annual Award:
Drs. Alina A. von Davier, Robert J. Mislevy, and Jiangang Hao
This year’s winners are Drs. Alina A. von Davier, Robert J. Mislevy, and Jiangang Hao for their exceptional achievement in educational measurement in the form of their edited and authored book, Computational Psychometrics: New Methodologies for a New Generation of Digital Learning and Assessment (With Examples in R and Python).
Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement:
Drs. Chris Han, Edison Choe, Hwanggyu Lim, Jamie Malatesta, Paulius Satkus, Sung-Hyuck Lee, and Yan Fu
This year’s winners are Drs. Chris Han, Edison Choe, Hwanggyu Lim, Jamie Malatesta, Paulius Satkus, Sung-Hyuck Lee, and Yan Fu for the project “Development of the Next Generation Computerized Adaptive Design for GMAT Focus Exam”.
Brenda H. Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Dr. Kylie Gorney and Dr. Klint Kanopka
This year’s winners are Dr. Kylie Gorney and Dr. Klint Kanopka for their exceptional contributions to educational measurement. Dr. Gorney’s dissertation has been recognized for its pioneering work in using item scores and distractors to detect aberrant behavior in educational assessments. Dr. Kanopka’s dissertation has been recognized for its exceptional contribution to psychometrics and educational measurement. His work introduces innovative models to address position effects in testing with machine-learning algorithm, the application of the drift-diffusion model to lexical decision tasks, and a novel metric for evaluating the fit of polytomous item response models.
NCME Career Contributions Award:
Dr. Terry Ackerman
This year’s winner is Terry Ackerman in recognition of his exemplary scholarship, career contributions to the measurement community, and service to NCME.
Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award:
Dr. Esther Ulitzsch
This year’s winner is Dr. Esther Ulitzsch in recognition of her contributions to the field and service to NCME.
Alicia Cascallar Award:
Hwanggyu Lim, Graduate Management Admission Council
Annual Award:
Hong Jiao, University of Maryland, Qiwei He, ETS & Bernard Veldkamp, University Of Twente
Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement:
Paul Dean, ETS, Duanli Yan, ETS & Priya Kannan, WestEd
Brenda H. Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Jiawei Xiong, Pearson
NCME Career Contributions Award:
Henry Braun, Boston College University
Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award:
Joseph A. Rios, University of Minnesota
Alicia Cascallar Award:
Susu Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Annual Award:
National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA)
Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement:
David Magis, University of Liege, Duanli Yan, ETS and Alina von Davier, Duolingo
Brenda H. Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Kaiwen Man, University of Alabama
NCME Career Contributions Award:
William Stout, University of Illinois
Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award:
Brian Leventhal, James Madison University
Alicia Cascallar Award:
Carol Eckerly, ETS
Annual Award:
No Recipient
Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement:
Steven Culpepper & James Balamuta, University of Illinois at Urbana
Brenda H. Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Dandan Liao, Cambium Assessment Inc., and Esther Ulitzsch
NCME Career Contributions Award:
Hua Hua Chang, Purdue University
Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award:
Wenchao Ma, University of Alabama
Alicia Cascallar Award:
Edison Choe, Graduate Management Admission Council
Annual Award:
Michael J. Kolen and Won-Chan Lee, University of Iowa
Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement:
Matthew Johnson and Sandip Sinharay, ETS
Brenda H. Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Seohyun Kim, University of Virginia
NCME Career Contributions Award:
Mark Wilson, University of California Berkeley
Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award:
Shiyu Wang, University of Georgia
Robert Mislevy
Shelby Haberman
Qiwei He
Scott Monroe
Maria Bolsinova
Hongwen Guo, Mo Zhang, Paul Deane, Randy Bennett
Catherine Gewertz
Matthew Gaertner and Brian Leventhal
Dr. Brian E. Clauser
Minjeong Jeon
Dr. Stefanie Wind
Dr. Sandip Sinharay
Photographed left to right: Dr. Andrew Ho, Dr. Benjamin Shear, Dr. Sean Reardon, Dr. Erin Fahle, Dr. Katherine Castellano
Not pictured: Dr. Ken Shores, Dr. Demetra Kalogrides
Linda Cook
Minjeong Jeon
Qiwei He
Megan Kuhfeld
Wenchao Ma & Jimmy de a Torre
Kyung (Chris) Han
and Mark Wilson (President)
Mark Reckase
Katherine Castellano
Okan Bulut
Youn-Jeng Choi
Yuanchao Bo
Sun-Joo Cho
Hollis Lai
Not Pictured, Mark Gierl
Dr. David Thissen
Dr. Laine Bradshaw
Dr. Peter Baldwin
Dr. Ronli P. Diakow
Dr. Chaitanya Ramineni, Dr. Brent Bridgeman and Dr. Paul Deane
Dr. Sandip Sinharay, Dr. Shelby J. Haberman and Dr. Kyong Hee Chon
Dr. Chun Wang
Dr. Yoon Soo Park
Dr. Min-Jeong Jeon
Dr. Hong Jiao
Dr. Sun-Joc Cho
award winners
Not pictured below: Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement – Dr. Lihua Yao
Dr. Susan Embretson
Dr. Kyung T. Han
Dr. Chun Wang
Dr. Duanli Yan
Allan Cohen
Ying Cheng
Kyung T. Han
Zhushan Li
Matthias von Davier
Derek Briggs