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. (in press). Performance Assessment. In T. Good (Ed.), 21st Century Education. SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Journal Articles
- Stone, C.A., Ye, F., Zhu, X., & Lane, S. (Accepted Pending Revision). Providing subscale scores for diagnostic information: A case study when the test is essentially unidimensional. Applied Measurement in Education.
- Parke, C. S. & Lane, S. (2008). Examining alignment between state performance assessment and mathematics classroom activities. Journal of Educational Research, 101(3), 132-147.
- Parke, C. S. & Lane, S. (2007). Students' perceptions of a Maryland state performance assessment. The Elementary School Journal, 107(3), 302-326.
Technical Reports
- Lane, S., Zumbo, B. Abedi, J, Benson, J., Dossey, J., Elliott, S.N., Kane, M., Linn, R., Paredes-Ziker, C., Rodriguez, M., Schraw, G., Slatttery, J., Thomas, V., Willhoft, J. (2008), Evaluation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress: Technical Working Group Prologue,
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Recent Course Instruction
Fall 2008 (2091)
Summer 2008 (2087)
Spring 2008 (2084)
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Recent Presentations
- Lane, S. (March 2008). Open hearing on revising the 1999 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. Invited symposium at the Annual Meetings of the National Council of Measurement in Education and the American Educational Research Association, N
- Lane, S. (March 2008). Revisiting the role of cognitive psychology in test design and score interpretation. Invited symposium, The Big Challenges and Research Opportunities in Testing and Measurement, at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Res
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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
- 2006-present ETS Constructed Response Design Advisory Panel
- 2006-present College Board’s Advisory Committee on Research
- 2006-present GRE® Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
- 2005-present Co-chair, Technical Working Group, Evaluation of U.S. Department of Education’s NAEP
- 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
- 2001-present Technical Advisory Panel, New Jersey State Department of Education
- 2001-present Technical Advisory Panel, Delaware State Department of Education
- 1999-present National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability, Kentucky State Department of Education
- 1999-present Technical Advisory Committee, Pennsylvania State Department of Education
- 2006 - External Review Committee for the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro.
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Recent Grants
- Measuring the Quality of Classroom Discussions in Mathematics
Suzanne Lane, Mary Kay Stein, Margaret Smith, University of Pittsburgh,
letter of inquiry regarding the RFP for the Development and Improvement of the Measurement of Classroom Quality - declined - the Spencer and William T. Grant Foundations. $400,00
Plan is to submit it to NSF.
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