Faculty profile: Laine Bradshaw develops assessment tool
Laine Bradshaw, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, was recently featured in Columns for her research on developing and leveraging diagnostic psychometric methodology to design assessments that are both detailed and efficient.
Every educator, administrator and teacher you talk to wants diagnostic assessments that tell them what their students’ strengths and weakness are," Bradshaw said. “One of the biggest issues in education is developing brief assessments that can be administered quickly in the classroom and also provide reliable and accurate feedback about what students know and what they don’t know.
Bradshaw is an investigator on three federal grants-two from the National Science Foundation and one from the Institute of Education Sciences. For each of these projects, Bradshaw is advancing the psychometric methodology needed to design diagnostic assessments that will help researchers better understand the complex structures of how students and teachers reason mathematically.