Handbook of Diagnostic Classification Models

Matthias von Davier is Distinguished Research Scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Until 2016, he was a senior research director in the Research & Development Division at Educational Testing Service (ETS), and co-director of the center for Global Assessment at ETS, leading psychometric research and operations of the center. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1996, specializing in psychometrics. In the Center for Advanced Assessment at NBME, he works on psychometric methodologies for analyzing data from technology-based high-stakes assessments. He is one of the editors of the Springer journal Large Scale Assessments in Education, which is jointly published by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and ETS. He is also editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (BJMSP), and co-editor of the Springer book series Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment. Dr. von Davier received the 2006 ETS Research Scientist award and the 2012 NCME Brad Hanson Award for contributions to educational measurement. His areas of expertise include topics such as item response theory, latent class analysis, diagnostic classification models, and, more broadly, classification and mixture distribution models, computational statistics, person-fit, item-fit, and model checking, hierarchical extension of models for categorical data analysis, and the analytical methodologies used in large scale educational surveys. Dr. Lee is an Associate Professor in the program of Measurement, Statistics & Evaluation, in the Department of Human Development at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in Statistics. Her research interests are primarily on psychometric approaches to solving practical problems in educational and psychological testing. Her areas of expertise include topics such as development and applications of diagnostic classification models, item response theory, latent class models, and analytical methodologies used in large scale assessments. In addition to her own research, Dr. Lee collaborates on various projects on the use of latent variable models for purposes of scale development/test construction and for validity studies.