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James Wollack
Expert on test security/cheating/academic misconduct, test development, placement testing, and educational measurement
Associate professor, educational psychology; director, Testing and Evaluation Services, UW Center for Placement Testing School of Education Work: 608-262-5863 — Home and cell phones available upon request jwollack@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Test security, including cheating detection, preventing cheating and designing test security systems
- Test development, including item writing, test validation, item bias, item analysis, scoring/grading, test equating
- Item response modeling, including item response theory and classical test theory
- University-level placement testing, particularly throughout UW-System
Achievements
- Fellow, UW Teaching Academy
- Editor, "Handbook of Test Security" (in development)
- President & Program Chair of the Measurement Services Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association