Gwyneth M. Boodoo (born

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) is an American

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and expert on educational measurement. Boodoo received her doctorate in educational measurement from the

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in 1978. She has taught at

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, where she was an associate professor in the department of educational psychology. She has worked for

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, where she directed a research program on Equity in Assessment from 1990 to 1992 and wrote the "Fairness" chapter of the 2000 revised version of the ETS Standards for Quality and Fairness. Boodoo has served on the Board of Scientific Affairs for the

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(APA). She currently runs educational consultancy GMB Enterprises in

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. She has also sat on several

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s for the Joint Committee on Testing Practices, a coalition established in 1985 by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). In 1995, Boodoo was part of an 11-member APA task force led by

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which published " Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns," a report written in response to ''

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''.

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