Credentials - Prof. Lissitz served as department chair for 26 years before stepping down to become a faculty member in 2005. A prodigous author, he has served on a number of committees for both the National Council on Measurement in Education and the American Educational Research Association. He continues to serve as director for the Maryland Assessment Resource Center (now known as MARCES)( funded by the Maryland Higher Education Commission - or MHEC) that supports all 2 and 4 year institutional efforts to incorporate assessment studies and practices in the fabric of their campus. The most recent MARCES projects includes providing the MHEC with advanced psychometric support for the state-wide testing effort in Maryland. Several publications have resulted from this work.
Contact - 301-405- 3620 (office); RLissitz@umd.edu
Webpage (MARCES) - http://marces.org/Dr_lissitz/Bio.htm

Credentials - before coming to Maryland in 2001, Mislevy was a 16 year veteran of the Educational Testing Service. His last job there was the distinguished research scientist in the Division of Statistics and Psychometrics Research. Earlier, he was a research associate at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. His current projects include the NSF-supported PADI project , which is developing an assessment design system with a focus on science inquiry, and work with Cisco Systems on simulation-based assessments of design and troubleshooting with computer networks. He is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Education. Other recent honors and awards include the International Language Testing Association's Samuel J. Messick Memorial Lecture Award, the American Educational Research Association's Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research, and the National Council of Measurement in Education's Award for Technical Contributions to Educational Measurement (three times).
Contact - 301-405-1933 (office); rmislevy@umd.edu
Webpage - www.education.umd.edu/EDMS/mislevy/