George Engelhard, Jr
Professor

George Engelhard Division of Educational Studies
Emory University
1784 North Decatur Road, Suite 240
Atlanta, GA 30322

Phone: 404.727.6468
Fax: 404.727.2799
E-Mail: gengelh@emory.edu


Courses Taught

  • Educational Measurement
  • Educational Research
  • Education as a Social Science
  • Rasch Measurement

Degrees

B.A. - Southern Connecticut State College
M.S. - Southern Connecticut State College
Ph.D. - The University of Chicago

Research Interests

  • Role of assessment in improving education
  • Issues in the evaluation of rater-mediated assessments
  • Policy issues in educational measurement
  • Assessment of written composition
  • Gender differences in student achievement

Current Projects

Models of judgment and educational assessment.

Selected Publications

Engelhard, G. (in press). IRT models for rating scale data. Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science.

Engelhard, G. (2005). Guttman Scaling. In K. Kempf-Leonard (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Volume 2 (pp. 167-174). San Diego, CA: Academic Press (Elsevier Science).

Bazarova, S.I., & Engelhard, G. (2004). Comparisons of the mathematics achievement of eighth grade students in the United States and the Russian Federation. Journal of Applied Measurement, 5(2), 142-159.

Engelhard, G. (2002). Monitoring raters in performance assessments. In G. Tindal and T. Haladyna (Eds.), Large-scale Assessment Programs for ALL Students: Development, Implementation, and Analysis, (pp. 261-287). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Myford, C.M., & Engelhard, G. (2002). Evaluating the psychometric quality of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Early Childhood/Generalist Assessment System, Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 15(4), 253-285.

Garner, M., & Engelhard, G. (2002). An eigenvector method for estimating item parameters of the dichotomous and polytomous Rasch models. Journal of Applied Measurement, 3(2), 107-128

Engelhard, G. (2001). Historical views of the influences of measurement and reading theories on the assessment of reading. Journal of Applied Measurement, 2(1), 1-28.

Garner, M., & Engelhard, G. (1999). Gender differences in performance on multiple-choice and constructed response mathematics items. Applied Measurement in Education, 12(1), 29-51.

Engelhard, G., & Anderson, D.W. (1998). A binomial trials model for examining the ratings of standard-setting judges. Applied Measurement in Education, 11(3), 209-230.

Engelhard, G. (1997). (Ed.). Introduction to special issue on history of measurement theory. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Summer, 5-7.

Engelhard, G. (1996). Evaluating rater accuracy in performance assessments. Journal of Educational Measurement, 33(1), 56-70.

Engelhard, G. (1994). Examining rater errors in the assessment of written composition with a many-faceted Rasch model. Journal of Educational Measurement, 31(2), 93-112.

Linacre, J.M., Engelhard, G., Tatum, D.S., & Myford, C.M. (1994). Measurement with judges: Many-faceted conjoint measurement. International Journal of Educational Research, 21(6), 569-577.

Engelhard, G. (1994). Historical views of the concept of invariance in measurement theory. In M. Wilson (Ed.), Objective Measurement: Theory into Practice, Volume 2 (pp. 73-99). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Edited Volumes

Wilson, M., & Engelhard, G. (Eds.). (2000). Objective Measurement: Theory into Practice, Volume 5 . Stamford, CT: Ablex.

Wilson, M., Engelhard, G., & Draney, K. (Eds.). (1997). Objective Measurement: Theory into Practice, Volume 4. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Engelhard, G., & Wilson, M. (Eds.). (1996). Objective Measurement: Theory into Practice, Volume 3. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.


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