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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 315-324

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From page 315...
... is the Ohio Board of Regents eminent scholar in industrial and organizational psychology at Bowling Green State University, where he has been a faculty member since 1991. Known for his work in the area of certification and employment testing, his research interests include the roles of formative assessments in learning and performance; assessment and development of managerial, executive, and other social skills; observation, impression formation, behavior prediction, and decision making, as in employment interviews, assessment centers, and performance appraisals; employee selection; and job analysis and job performance.
From page 316...
... His research has focused on the economic analysis of public schools, specifically the link between student outcomes and measures of school spending, including class size, teachers' salaries, and teachers' level of education. His work has also examined the role that standards and expectations play in student achievement and has included studies of various forms of school choice and an evaluation of San Diego's Blueprint for Student Success.
From page 317...
... She is an elected member of the Council of the Association for Public Policy and Management. Hannaway has served on the editorial board of a number of journals and is past editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the main policy journal of the American Educational Research Association.
From page 318...
... Her 25-year career has focused primarily on developing employment credentialing assessments and conducting validation research studies, and she specializes in the area of designing performance assessments. Knapp has been involved with testing in a wide variety of occupations and employment settings, including a screening assessment for the Army's Foreign Language Recruitment Initiative; credentialing examinations for legal administrators, independent medical examiners, nursing home administrators, physical therapists, system administrators, and veterinary surgeons; and a variety of selection and screening assessments used for jobs in the military.
From page 319...
... , inclusion of special needs students in assessment programs, developing assessments for state and federal accountability programs, and setting standards for the National Assessment of Adult Literacy. From 1984 to 1999, she worked at the Asso­ ciation of American Medical Colleges on the Medical College Admission Test, directing operational programs and leading a comprehensive research program on the examination.
From page 320...
... He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Oregon Milken Educator Award; the 1997 Oregon Teacher of the Year; the Oregon Academy of Sciences Citation for Science Teaching; the 1994 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching; the Outstanding Biology Teaching Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers; and the Tandy Technology Scholar for Science Teaching.
From page 321...
... He has written numerous books and articles on a wide range of sociological and behavioral science topics. He has received many honors and awards, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968, the American Philosophical Society in 1976, and the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
From page 322...
... Her work has ranged in focus from the educational needs of students with limited English proficiency, to recruiting and preparing nontraditional teacher candidates of color, to preparing culturally responsive teachers. She has conducted studies of culturally responsive teaching, policies and practices in the education of immigrant students, effective instructional practices in bilingual classrooms, increasing the diversity of the teaching force, and strategies for transforming teacher education for diversity.
From page 323...
... She has been a long-time consultant to NAEP reading tests and served on the Planning Committee for the devel­ opment of the 2007 NAEP Reading Framework. She recently served as codirector and principal investigator of the U.S.


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