Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement: Hongwen Guo, Mo Zhang, Paul Deane, and Randy Bennett, ETS
The Bradley Hanson Award honors Bradley Hanson's contributions to the field and further advances the goals embodied in his work. Awards honor recently completed research projects or proposed new research projects that promise to make a substantive contribution to the field of educational measurement or the development, instruction or mentoring of new professionals in the field.
The committee selected this group because they have succeeded in using online process data (e.g., key strokes, mouse clicks, response time) to identify indications of writing processes, skills, and learning needs. Our field has been discussing the promise of process data for a range of uses for many years. Although this study is somewhat preliminary, it is one of the first in educational testing and shows promise for extension in writing and application in other areas.
Writing proficiency and its subskills are an important construct. Extensions of this work show promise for diagnostic reporting.
This is an interdisciplinary project. The team includes experts in statistics, writing, automated scoring, and assessment for learning.
Committee Chair, Steve Ferrara, Measured Progress
Nominator, Hongwen Guo, ETS