Kudos: Engelhard selected as president, chair of objective measurement society; Faculty members awarded UGA Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant
Engelhard selected as president, chair of objective measurement organization
George Engelhard, professor in the College’s Department of Educational Psychology, was recently invited to serve as president, chair of the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Society (PROMS), a nongovernmental professional organization promoting the subject of objective measurement.
PROMS promotes objective measurement and contributes to the research and development of Rasch measurement—a model used to analyze data—in the Pacific Rim.
“I am delighted to be invited to become the president of the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Society (PROMS),” Engelhard said. “UGA is known for its service at multiple levels of society, and it is exciting to provide international leadership in my field of psychometrics to countries in the Pacific Rim and around the world.”
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Faculty members awarded grant funding for interdisciplinary research teams
College of Education faculty members Anna Abraham, Edward Delgado-Romero, and Bernadette Heckman received grant funding for research proposals from the third round of UGA’s Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant program.
Eleven grants totaling $1.5 million went to research proposals in November 2021, with Abraham, Delgado-Romero, and Heckman involved in different research teams.