Mark Daniel Reckase is an

educational psychologist An educational psychologist is a psychologist whose differentiating functions may include diagnostic and psycho-educational assessment, psychological counseling in educational communities ( students, teachers, parents, and academic authorit ...

and expert on quantitative methods and measurement who is known for his work on

computerized adaptive testing Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is a form of Computer-based assessment, computer-based test that adapts to the examinee's ability level. For this reason, it has also been called tailored testing. In other words, it is a form of computer-adminis ...

, multidimensional

item response theory In psychometrics, item response theory (IRT, also known as latent trait theory, strong true score theory, or modern mental test theory) is a paradigm for the design, analysis, and scoring of Test (student assessment), tests, questionnaires, and sim ...

, and standard setting in educational and psychological tests. Reckase is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...

Awards and honors

2016: Career Award from the National Council for Measurement in Education for Contributions to Educational Measurement. 2009: Michigan State University Distinguished Professor

Biography

Reckase graduated from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

in 1966 with a B.S. in psychology. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ...

in 1972, where his advisor was Eric F. Gardner. His dissertation was titled ''Development and application of a multivariate logistic latent trait model.'' Reckase began his career on the faculty at

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

in 1972. In 1981, he moved on to a position as Assistant Vice President for Assessment Innovations at ACT. In 1998, he left ACT to join the faculty of the College of Education at Michigan State University. He retired in 2015. Between December 2001 and November 2006, Reckase was chief editor of the academic journal ''

Applied Psychological Measurement ''Applied Psychological Measurement'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications. The journal covers research on methodologies and research on the application of psychological measurement in psychology and related discipli ...

''. He has served as President of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing (2017) and as President of the National Council on Measurement in Education (2008-2009).

Research

Reckase specializes in the development of educational and psychological assessments, particularly the

psychometric Psychometrics is a field of study within psychology concerned with the theory and technique of measurement. Psychometrics generally covers specialized fields within psychology and education devoted to testing, measurement, assessment, and rela ...

theories underpinning the development of such tests. He has worked extensively in multidimensional item response theory since the beginning of his academic career: his dissertation was on the early development of a multidimensional item response model and he went on to write a book on the topic in 2009. He has branched out into other psychometric areas, like standard setting.

Books

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Representative publications

*Reckase, M. (1979). Unifactor latent trait models applied to multifactor tests: Results and implications. ''Journal of Educational Statistics, 4'', 207–230. *Reckase, M. (1985). The difficulty of test items that measure more than one ability. ''Applied Psychological Measurement, 9'', 401–412. *Reckase, M. (1997). The past and future of multidimensional item response theory. ''Applied Psychological Measurement, 21'', 25–36. *Reckase, M. (2006). A conceptual framework for a psychometric theory for standard setting with examples of its use for evaluating the functioning of two standard setting methods. ''Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 25'', 4–18. *Reckase, M. D., & McKinley, R. L. (1991). The discriminating power of items that measure more than one dimension. ''Applied Psychological Measurement'', ''15''(4), 361–373.

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