Engelhard receives international award from National Center for Assessment

Last month, George Engelhard, a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, received the 2015 Qiyas Award for Excellence in Educational Assessment (outstanding scholarly work) at the National Center for Assessment’s Second International Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The Qiyas Award was established in 2014 to promote excellence in the field of educational measurement, assessment and evaluation. The National Center for Assessment (NCA) selected Engelhard for the award based on his contributions to the field of education, his outstanding scholarly work and for his book, “Invariant Measurement: Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences.”

During the conference’s opening ceremony, Engelhard—who was the only scholar honored at the event—officially accepted a certificate of merit, as well as a monetary award of over $25,000 from Prince Dr. Faisal bin Abdullah Al-Mishari Al Saud, president of NCA.