Dr. Castellano will teach a 30-40 minute class on a topic in the area of measurement and assessment. GSE PhD students and Faculty invited. Light refreshments to be served.
Katherine Furgol Castellano is a psychometrician whose research primarily involves investigating measurement and statistical models in rigorous and innovative ways to inform educational practices and reform. Dr. Castellano earned her doctorate in Educational Measurement and Statistics and her Masters in Statistics from the University of Iowa. Currently, she is an Associate Psychometrician at Educational Testing Service, working on scoring models for “next generation” assessments as well as continuing her research on the increasingly popular Student Growth Percentile metric. Previously, she was an Institute of Education Sciences postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, pursuing both operational and research projects with Mark Wilson and Sophia Rabe-Hesketh. Dr. Castellano has also been an Adjunct Instructor at Saint Louis University. She is lead author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Growth Models, commissioned by the Council of Chief State School Officers. As an avid proponent of the effective use of graphical displays, she was recently appointed the Visuals Editor for Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice.
