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Director, 2017 - Present

Micheline Chalhoub-Deville is a Professor of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and President Elect of the International Language Testing Association (ILTA).  She is recognized for her publications in second language testing and validity. She has directed federally-funded projects to design and develop foreign language proficiency-based and computer adaptive tests as well as a K-12 academic English language assessment battery.  She is the founder and first president of the Mid-West Association of Language Testers. She has received the ILTA Award for Best Article on Language Testing. She has been awarded the ETS TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award and the UNCG SOE Outstanding Senior Scholar Award.

Graduate Student Researcher, 2017 - 2018

Jeremy Acree is a PhD student and Graduate Assistant in the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a concentration in Program Evaluation. His research interests currently include use and influence of evaluation and culturally responsive approaches to evaluation, particularly in educational contexts.

Graduate Student Researcher, 2017 - Present

Ramsey is a PhD student and Graduate Assistant in the Department of Educational Research Methodology with a concentration in measurement and a minor in statistics.  His research interests include foreign/second language assessment, standardized formative assessment, assessment in multilingual contexts, and control-sample matching techniques.

Graduate Student Researcher, 2017 - Present

Karen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a concentration in Measurement. She is currently a Test Development Manager at the American Board of Pediatrics and previously worked as the Section Chief of Analysis and Reporting at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. 

Graduate Student Researcher, 2017 - 2018

Lexi is a PhD student and Graduate Assistant in the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a concentration in Measurement. Her research interests include nontraditional educational assessment (e.g. noncognitive assessment, game-based assessment, etc.), the influence of noncognitive factors in education, and the application of item response theory (IRT) to atypical assessment data (e.g. MIRT, GGUM, etc.).

Graduate Student Researcher, 2017 - 2018

Bess is a PhD candidate and Graduate Assistant in the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a concentration in Measurement.  She holds a master’s of arts in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include test design, educational technology, and issues of fairness and validity.

Graduate Student Researcher, 2017 - Present

Meltem Yumsek is a PhD student and Graduate Assistant in the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a concentration in Measurement. She is interested in foreign/second language assessment, application of measurement models in language testing and validation of large-scale, standardized testing programs.

Graduate Student Researcher, 2017 - Present

Julianne Zemaitis is a PhD student and Graduate Assistant in the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a concentration in Measurement. She is interested in assessment and evaluation in the context educational accountability with a focus on the validation of large-scale, standardized testing programs and policy implications of data use.