Autor: Dave Bartram

Dave Bartram is Past President of the International Test commissionand is heading ITC projects on international guidelines forstandards in test use and standards for computer-based testing andthe Internet. He is Chair of the British Psychological Society”s Steering Committee on Test Standards and Convenor of the European Federation of Psychologists” Associations Standing Committee on Tests and Testing. He is President-Elect of the IAAP”s Division 2. Professor Bartram is Research Director for SHL Group plc. Priorto his appointment with SHL in 1998, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science and the Environment, and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hull. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society.In 2004 he received the BPS award for Distinguished Contributionsto Professional Psychology. His specialist area is computer-basedtesting and Internet assessment systems. Within SHL he is leadingthe development of their next generation of Internet-based deliverysystems and the development of a multi-dimensional generic Competency Framework. He has published large numbers of popular, professional andacademic articles and book chapters, and has been the Senior Editorof the BPS Test Reviews. He has been an editor or co-author ofseveral works including the 1992, 1995 and 1997 BPS Reviews of Psychometric Tests; Organisational Effectiveness: the Role of Psychology (with Ivan Robertson and Militza Callinan, published in2002 by Wiley)and the BPS Open Learning Programme for Level A(Occupational) Test Use (with Pat Lindley, published by BPSBlackwell in 1994. Ronald K. Hambleton holds the title of Distinguished University Professor and is Chairperson of the research and Evaluation Methods Program and Executive Director of the Center for Educational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the United States. He earned a B.A. in 1966 from the University of Waterloo in Canada with majors in mathematics and psychology, andan M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Torontowith specialties in psychometric methods and statistics. Professor Hambleton teaches graduate-level courses in educational andpsychological testing, item response theory and applications, andclassical test theory models and methods, and offers seminarcourses on applied measurement topics. He is co-author of severaltextbooks including (with H. Swaminathan and H. Jane Rogers)Fundamentals of Item Response Theory (published by Sage in 1991)and Item response Theory: Principles and App0licaitons (publishedby Kluwer in 1985), and co-editor of several books including International Perspectives on Academic Assessment ( with Thomas Oakland, published by Kluwer in 1995), Handbook of Modern Itemresponse Theory ( with Wim van der Linden, published by Springer in1997) and Adaptation of Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment ( with Peter Merenda and Charles Spielberger, Published by Earlbaum in 2005). His research interestsare in the areas of item response model applications to educationalachievement and credentialing exams, standard-setting, testadaptation methodology, score reporting and computer-base testing.he has received several honors and awards for his more than 35years of measurement research including honorary doctorates from Umea University in Sweden and the University of Oviedo in Spain, the 1994, National Council on Measurement in Education Career Award, the 2003Association of Test Publisher National Award for Contributions to Computer-Based Testing, and the 2005 E.F.Lindquist Award for Contributions to Assessment. Professor Hambleton is a frequent consultant to state department ofeducation, national government agencies and credentialingorganizations.