Suzanne Lane
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5916 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7095
EMAIL:
sl@pitt.eduFull Time Faculty - Professor
Professor Lane has been a faculty member in the Research Methodology Program at the University of Pittsburgh since the fall of 1986. Her research focus is on educational measurement and testing, including test design and validation, design and technical issues related to large-scale assessments and performance-based assessements, applications of item response theory and generalizability theory, and differential item functioning. She has taught beginning and advanced courses in measurement and statistics. She was the President of the National Council on Measurement in Education and Vice President of Division D (Methodology) of the American Educational Research Association. She is on the editorial boards of a number of measurement journals and is a member of a number of Technical Advisory Panels for state assessment systems (KY, NY, NJ, PA, DE). Professor Lane was also a member of the Joint Committee on Revision of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. She has been the Principal Investigator on several large grants examining the validity of large-scale assessment systems. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Educational Measurement, Applied Measurement in Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices, and other education journals.
School Affiliations
- Department: Learning Policy Center
- Department: Psychology in Education - Professor
- Program: Cognitive Studies
- Program: Learning Sciences and Policy
- Program: Research Methodology
Education
- Ph.D., Research Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics, The University of Arizona, 1986
- Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Arizona, 1986
Recent Publications
Book Chapters
- Lane, S. & Tierney, S. T. (2008). Performance Assessment. In T. Good (Ed.), 21st Century Education. SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA.
- Lane, S. (in press). Design, Validity and Technical Issues in the Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills. In G. Schraw (in press). Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills.
Journal Articles
- Stone, C.A., Ye, F., Zhu, X., & Lane, S. (in press). Providing subscale scores for diagnostic information: A case study when the test is essentially unidimensional. Applied Measurement in Education.
Reviews
- Lane, S. & Moore, D. (in press). Review of the KeyMath3 Diagnostic Assessment, Mental Measurements Yearbook Database. BRS Information Technologies.
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Recent Course Instruction
Spring 2010 (2104)
Fall 2009 (2101)
Summer 2009 (2097)
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Current Professional Participation
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- 2005- 2006 Member, AERA Division D Nominating Committee
- 2005-2010 Management Committee, Revision of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
- Applied Measurement in Education
- 1994-present Board of Editors, Applied Measurement in Education
- Educational Assessment
- 2001-present Member, Editorial Board, Educational Assessment
- Journal of Educational Measurement
- 1998-present Board of Advisory Editors, Journal of Educational Measurement
- National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
- 2005-present Co-chair, Technical Working Group, Evaluation of U.S. Department of Education’s NAEP
- National Council on Measurement in Education (NSME)
- 2005-2008 Co-chair, Committee on the NCME Career Contributions Award
- 2008-2009 Member, Nominations Committee
- School of Education Promotion and Tenure Committee
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Recent Consulting
- 2006-present NCEO Technical Working Group
- 2006-present Psychometric Oversight Committee, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- 1999-present Technical Advisory Committee, Pennsylvania State Department of Education
- 2004-present Technical Advisory Group, New York State Department of Education
- 2001-present Technical Advisory Panel, New Jersey State Department of
- 2001-present Technical Advisory Panel, Delaware State Department of Education
- 2006-present GRE® Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
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