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	EDMS News > EDMS alumna Dr. Jing Gao donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni. > Congratulations to Yoonjeong Kang, who won the Graduate Student Best Paper Award from the Educational Statisticians SIG of AERA. > Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Hancock, who received the College of Education's 2012 Award for Outstanding Scholarship. > Congratulations to Dr. Andre Rupp, whose book Diagnostic Measurement: Theory, methods, and applications has received the AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Research Methodology Award. > Congratulations to Yuan Zhang, who was appointed to serve as Division D Junior Graduate Student Representative for the Graduate Student Council of the American Educational Research Association in 2011-2012. > EDMS alumna Dr. Karen Douglas and her husband donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni and their families. > Congratulations to Xiaodong Hou, who accepted a position at AIR as a statistician / econometrician. > EDMS alumnus Roy Levy was recently named by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Click here for more information. > Recent graduate Min Liu donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni. > EDMS alumnus Dr. Jaehwa Choi and his wife Dr. Sunhee Kim donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni and their families. > Dr. Gregory R. Hancock won the 2011 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring by the American Psychological Association, Division 5. > Recent graduate Hsiu-Fei Wang donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni. > Congratulations to Younyoung Choi, winner of a Psychometric Society Travel Award. > Congratulations to Min Liu, who accepted a position at the University of Hawaii as an Assistant Professor. > Congratulations to Nidhi Kohli, who accepted a post-doctoral fellow position at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute. > Congratulations to Ying Li, who accepted a position at AIR as a psychometrician. > EDMS alumna, Dr. Terry Alban, named superintendent of Frederick County. Click here for more information. > Nidhi Kohli is the 2011 AERA SIG/EdStat Graduate Student Paper award winner. > Congratulations to Dr. Robert J. Mislevy on being named Professor Emeritus, and for being appointed the Frederic M. Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics at Educational Testing Service. > Dr. André Rupp was named 2011 program chair for AERA SIG: Cognition & Assessment, and 2012 program co-chair for NCME. > Congratulations to Ph.D. graduates Will Dardick, Brandi Weiss, Ru Lu, and Hsiu-Fei Wang. Congratulations to M.A. graduates Philip Stablein, Austin Fossey, Jenny Kirkbride, Meredith Mislevy, and Ying Zhang. > Ru Lu accepted a position at ETS as associate psychometrician. > Feifei Li accepted a position at ETS as associate psychometrician. > Hsiu-Fei Wang accepted a position as statistician at inVentiv Clinical Solutions. > Min Liu received a Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for 2010-2011. > Dr. André Rupp was named “Outstanding Reviewer for 2009” for the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, for which he will receive an award by the American Educational Research Association. > Ying Li received an award from the College of Education International Travel Fund to present her research. > Dr. Bill Schafer was named a Fellow of the American Counseling Association. > Jessica Mislevy and coauthor won the 2009 Best Paper Award by the North East Association of Institutional Research. > Hsiu-Fei Wang received an AERA Division D Graduate Student Travel Award. > Dr. Hong Jiao received an AERA/NSF grant for: "Differential item functioning analysis for testlet-based assessments." >Dr. Greg Hancock was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. >Dr. Greg Hancock was named Associate Editor of Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisiplinary Journal. > Dr. Hong Jiao named a GATE Fellow (Global Awareness in Teacher Education) for the College of Education. > Dr. Hong Jiao has been appointed co-chair of the AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Measurement and Research Methodology Award Committee. > Feifei Li welcomed the birth of her son Frank Chen on Aug. 30th! > Dr. Andre Rupp and Dr. Robert Mislevy received an NSF grant in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin -- AutoMentor: Virtual Mentoring and Assessment in Computer Games for STEM Learning. > Jing Gao accepted a position as psychometrician at Second Language Testing, Inc., in Rockville, MD. > Junhui Liu got a summer internship at HumRRO in Kentucky. > Brandi Weiss won an Ann G. Wylie dissertation fellowship. > Heather Mann accepted a position as Associate Research Scientist, ETS Research & Development Division, in the ETS Center for Validity Research. > Dr. Bob Mislevy received the 2009 Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address Award from recognition by AERA Division D. > Jennifer Koran accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Educational Statistics and Measurement in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education at Southern Illinois University. > Dongyang Li accepted a position as a psychometrician at Prometrics in Baltimore. > Ying Li and Xiaodong Hou received ACT Summer Internships. > EDMS Students and Faculty in over 50 sessions at the 2009 AERA/NCME meeting: PDF or Excel > Dr. Hong Jiao was appointed to the committee of the American Educational Research Association on Significant Contribution for Educational Measurement and Research Methodology. > Dr. Jeffrey Harring, with Dr. Rebecca Silverman, received an IES grant: "Investigating breadth, depth, & comprehension in English monolingual & Spanish-English bilingual elementary school students." > Dr. George Macready, with Brandi Weiss, received a grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence for their undergraduate teaching mentorship program. > Dr. André Rupp received a University of Maryland Graduate Research Board 2009 Summer Research Award for his research project entitled, "Robustness of diagnostic classification models due to model misspecification: Toward a consumer report for multidimensional measurement models." > Dr. Hong Jiao received a Fall 2008 College of Education SPARC grant for her research project entitled, "Rasch mixture model for testlet-based assessments." > Brandi Weiss received a Fall 2008 College of Education SPARC grant for her research project entitled, "Latent variable models for estimating quadratic relationships in structural equation modeling." > Dr. André Rupp received a Fall 2008 College of Education SPARC grant for his research project entitled, "Modeling developing expertise through epistemic games: Quantifying uncertainty about learner profiles."
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