Getting Serious About Test Score Reporting

Abstract

Ronald K. Hambleton holds the titles of Distinguished University Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Educational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned an M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Toronto with specialties in psychometric methods and statistics. Professor Hambleton has taught graduate-level courses in item response theory and applications, classical test theory, and principles of assessment at UMass since 1969. He is the author or co-editor of nine books on educational assessment and has published papers on applications of item response theory, and such topics as criterion-referenced assessment, test adaptation methodology, test score reporting, standard-setting, and computer-based testing, over his 45 years in the assessment field.