Biography
Stephen G. Sireci, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Educational Assessment in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned his Ph.D. in psychometrics from Fordham University and his master and bachelor degrees in psychology from Loyola College in Maryland. Before UMass, he was Senior Psychometrician at the GED Testing Service, Psychometrician for the Uniform CPA Exam and Research Supervisor of Testing for the Newark NJ Board of Education. He is known for his research in evaluating test fairness, particularly issues related to content validity, test bias, cross-lingual assessment, standard setting, and computerized-adaptive testing. He has authored/coauthored over 130 publications, and is the co-architect of the multistage-adaptive Massachusetts Adult Proficiency Tests. He currently serves or has served on several advisory boards including the Texas Technical Advisory Committee, and the Puerto Rico Technical Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a Fellow of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association. Formerly, he was President of the Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA), Co-Editor of the International Journal of Testing, a Senior Scientist for the Gallup Organization and a member of the Board of Directors for the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). Currently, he is Past-President of NCME and serves on the Board of Trustees for HumRRO. He has received several awards at UMass including the School of Education’s Outstanding Teacher Award, the Conti Faculty Fellowship, and the Chancellor’s Medal (the highest faculty honor at UMass). He has also received the Donlon Award for Distinguished Mentoring and the Doherty Award for Outstanding Service from NERA, and the Samuel J. Messick Memorial Lecture Award from Educational Testing Service and the International Language Testing Association.
