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Office Number:
Education 3109
Phone Number:
(805) 893-7762
E-mail:
education.ucsb.edu rzwick
Rebecca Zwick
Professor, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)
Emphasis:
Research Methodology
Research Interests:
Educational measurement; Assessment literacy; Educational testing: validity, policy, fairness; Admissions testing; Educational statistics/data analysis; Educational research methods; Higher education admissions policy
Biography:
Research Areas and Interests: Applied statistics; educational and psychological measurement; statistical assessment of test fairness, test validity, testing policy; communicating with the public about educational measurement and statistics.
I received a doctorate in quantitative methods in education at the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. in Statistics from Rutgers University. After completing my Ph.D., I was a postdoctoral fellow at the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I then spent 12 years as a researcher at Educational Testing Service in Princeton. Since I joined the department in 1996, I have been developing and teaching courses in educational statistics and psychometrics. I'm also the leader of the emphasis in research methodology. I recently completed a National Science Foundation project in which my research team developed and evaluated instructional materials to help educators to better interpret standardized test results. In my latest project, I am exploring the effect of high school quality on the predictive validity of SAT scores and high school grade-point average. I serve on technical advisory committees for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Programme in International Student Assessment (PISA), and the SAT.
Recent Publications:
Zwick, R., Sklar, J.C., Wakefield, G., Hamilton, C., Norman, A. & Folsom, D. Instructional Tools in Educational Measurement and Statistics (ITEMS) for school personnel: Evaluation of three web-based training modules. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 27, pp. 14-27. 2008. [Journal Article]
Zwick, R. College admission testing. Paper commissioned by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, at www.nacac.net.org. 2007. [Commissioned Paper]
Zwick, R. & Green, J.G. New perspectives on the correlation of SAT scores, high school grades, and socioeconomic factors. Journal of Educational Measurement, 44, 23-45. 2007. [Journal Article]
Zwick, R. College admissions in 21st century America: The role of grades, tests, and games of chance. Harvard Educational Review, 77, pp. 419-428. 2007. [Journal Article]
Zwick, R. Higher education admissions testing. In R. Brennan (Ed.), Educational measurement (4th ed., pp. 647-679). National Council on Measurement in Education Greenwood Press. 2006. [Invited Book Chapter]
Awards and Honors:
Faculty mentor for College Board dissertation fellowship award to Lizabeth Schlemer, 2006
Affiliations:
American Educational Research Association
American Statistical Association
Division 5 of the American Psychological Association (Fellow)
National Council on Measurement in Education
Psychometric Society
