Computer-Based Testing and the Internet

Dave Bartram is Past President of the International Test commissionand is heading ITC projects on international guidelines forstandards in test use and standards for computer-based testing andthe Internet. He is Chair of the British Psychological Society'sSteering Committee on Test Standards and Convenor of the EuropeanFederation of Psychologists' Associations Standing Committee onTests and Testing. He is President-Elect of the IAAP's Division 2. Professor Bartram is Research Director for SHL Group plc. Priorto his appointment with SHL in 1998, he was Dean of the Faculty ofScience and the Environment, and Professor of Psychology in theDepartment of Psychology at the University of Hull. He is aChartered Occupational Psychologist, a Fellow of the BritishPsychological Society (BPS) and a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society.In 2004 he received the BPS award for Distinguished Contributionsto Professional Psychology. His specialist area is computer-basedtesting and Internet assessment systems. Within SHL he is leadingthe development of their next generation of Internet-based deliverysystems and the development of a multi-dimensional genericCompetency Framework. He has published large numbers of popular, professional andacademic articles and book chapters, and has been the Senior Editorof the BPS Test Reviews. He has been an editor or co-author ofseveral works including the 1992, 1995 and 1997 BPS Reviews ofPsychometric Tests; Organisational Effectiveness: the Role ofPsychology (with Ivan Robertson and Militza Callinan, published in2002 by Wiley)and the BPS Open Learning Programme for Level A(Occupational) Test Use (with Pat Lindley, published by BPSBlackwell in 1994. Ronald K. Hambleton holds the title of Distinguished UniversityProfessor and is Chairperson of the research and Evaluation MethodsProgram and Executive Director of the Center for EducationalAssessment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in theUnited States. He earned a B.A. in 1966 from the University ofWaterloo in Canada with majors in mathematics and psychology, andan M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Torontowith specialties in psychometric methods and statistics. ProfessorHambleton teaches graduate-level courses in educational andpsychological testing, item response theory and applications, andclassical test theory models and methods, and offers seminarcourses on applied measurement topics. He is co-author of severaltextbooks including (with H. Swaminathan and H. Jane Rogers)Fundamentals of Item Response Theory (published by Sage in 1991)and Item response Theory: Principles and App0licaitons (publishedby Kluwer in 1985), and co-editor of several books includingInternational Perspectives on Academic Assessment ( with ThomasOakland, published by Kluwer in 1995), Handbook of Modern Itemresponse Theory ( with Wim van der Linden, published by Springer in1997) and Adaptation of Educational and Psychological Tests forCross-Cultural Assessment ( with Peter Merenda and CharlesSpielberger, Published by Earlbaum in 2005). His research interestsare in the areas of item response model applications to educationalachievement and credentialing exams, standard-setting, testadaptation methodology, score reporting and computer-base testing.he has received several honors and awards for his more than 35years of measurement research including honorary doctorates fromUmea University in Sweden and the University of Oviedo in Spain,the 1994, National Council on Measurement in Education CareerAward, the 2003Association of Test Publisher National Award forContributions to Computer-Based Testing, and the 2005 E.F.Lindquist Award for Contributions to Assessment. ProfessorHambleton is a frequent consultant to state department ofeducation, national government agencies and credentialingorganizations.