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Walter Chason Receives 1996 Doctoral Fellowship Award in Applied Measurement

New York, NY, July 1996 - Professional Examination Service is pleased to announce that Walter Chason has been selected to receive the 1996 Doctoral Fellowship Award in Applied Measurement. Established as part of the PES public service mission, the year-long fellowship provides an opportunity for research on measurement and public-policy issues related to the development, validation, and use of licensure and certification examinations.

The award will support Chason as he completes his doctoral studies in the Educational Measurement and Research program at the University of South Florida. Working with supervision from his adviser Jeffrey D. Kromrey, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the university, Chason will conduct research comparing classical- and item response theory (IRT)-based methods of detecting aberrant response patterns. The research will use data from a credentialing examination to determine the levels of accuracy in detecting simulated aberrant response patterns under varying conditions of cheater/cheatee ability and number of items copied.

Chason holds Bachelor's degrees in Zoology and Clinical Chemistry, and graduated with a Master's degree in Science Education from the University of South Florida in 1990. He has gained extensive applied measurement and research experience working for the Department of Testing and Evaluation in the Hillsborough County public school system, Tampa, Florida, and for the Institute for Instructional Research and Practice at the University of South Florida, where he is currently Supervisor of Psychometrics. The co-author of a number of research papers, Chason has presented his work at various academic meetings including the 1995 and 1996 annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association.

Submissions for the Doctoral Fellowship Award were judged by a panel of three external reviewers: Ronald K. Hambleton, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Richard Jaeger, Ph.D., Excellence Foundation Professor of Educational Research Methodology and Director of the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; and John J. Norcini, Ph.D., Executive Vice President for Evaluation and Research at the American Board of Internal Medicine and recipient of the 1995 PES Award for Scientific Contributions to Credentialing.

Fellowship support for doctoral study is one of several annual PES awards. For more information about the PES awards program and other public service activities, please contact: Karen Cullen, Public Service Activities Manager, Professional Examination Service, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115-0089, (212) 367-4276, fax: (212) 367-4266, e-mail: mission@proexam.org.

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