Lorrie A. Shepard
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPomona College (B.A., 1968)
University of Colorado Boulder (M.A., 1970; Ph.D., 1972)
Known forResearch on psychometrics and testing in school settings
AwardsDistinguished Career Award from the National Council on Measurement in Education
David G. Imig Award for Distinguished Achievements in Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Scientific career
FieldsEducational psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado Boulder
ThesisA multitrait-multimethod approach to the construct validity of self-acceptance (1972)

Lorrie A. Shepard is a University Distinguished Professor of research and evaluation methodology and former Dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. She joined the faculty of CU Boulder in 1974, and was named the dean of the School of Education there in 2001.[1] She retired from her position as School of Education Dean in 2016, but remains a distinguished professor there.[2] She has been the president of the National Academy of Education, the American Educational Research Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education. She has also been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Educational Measurement and the American Educational Research Journal. She is known for her work on psychometrics and the use of testing in the educational system.[3] She has also researched the effects of grade retention in schools, and has argued that it is ineffective at improving student performance.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Lorrie Shepard CV" (PDF).
  2. ↑ Poppen, Julie (2015-06-04). "Lorrie Shepard to retire as CU-Boulder School of Education dean". CU Boulder Today. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  3. ↑ "Lorrie Shepard". Center for Assessment, Design, Research and Evaluation (CADRE). 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  4. ↑ Wood, Daniel B. (1999-02-05). "California's big test: holding students back". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2017-08-01.


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