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CBiographical Sketches
JOHN A. HARTIGAN (Chair) is the Eugene Higgins professor of statis-
tics and director of the Statistical Computing Laboratory at Yale Univer-
sity. His teaching and research interests center on the foundations of
probability and statistics, Bayes theory, classification, statistical comput-
ing, and graphical methods. He is an elected fellow of the American
Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an
elected member of the International Statistical Institute and the Royal
Statistical Society. He received BSc and MSc degrees in mathematics
from the University of Sydney and a PhD degree in mathematical
statistics from Princeton University.
LORRIE A. SHEPARD (Vice Chair) is professor and chair of research and
evaluation methodology in the School of Education at the University of
Colorado, Boulder. She is past president of the National Council on
Measurement in Education and past editor of both the Journal of
Educational Measurement and the American Educational Research Jour-
nal. Her research includes applied psychometric studies, aimed at topics
such as standard setting and bias detection, and policy studies addressing
issues of test use. She received a BA degree in history from Pomona
College and an MA degree in counseling and a PhD degree in educational
research from the University of Colorado.
MARCUS ALEXIS is dean of the College of Business Administration at
the University of Illinois, Chicago. An expert on decision making,
marketing, and the economic role of minorities, he has taught at Macal
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ester College, De Paul University, the University of Rochester, and
Northwestern University and has been a Ford Foundation faculty study
fellow at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy. He was a commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission
from 1979 to 1981. He is currently deputy chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago, a trustee of the Teachers Insurance & Annuity
Association (TIAA), and a member of the board of directors of the
Metropolitan Planning Council for the City of Chicago. He is a member of
the board of governors of the Beta Gamma Sigma society, a member of
the American Economic Association, the National Economic Associa-
tion, and the Econometric Society, and a past member of the board of the
Caucus of Black Economists. He is on the editorial board of the Review
of Black Political Economy and has served on the board of economists of
Black Enterprise. He received AB and honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters degrees from Brooklyn College, an MA degree from Michigan
State University, and a PhD degree in economics from the University of
Minnesota.
MANFRED EMMRICH is director of the North Carolina State Employ-
ment Service Division of the Employment Security Commission of North
Carolina, responsible for the operation of employment services provided
by 84 local Job Service centers and branch offices across the state. From
1978 to 1985, Emmrich served as a senior associate with MDC, Inc., a
nonprofit research and development group with special interests in
productivity and employment and training issues. Emmrich was chair of
the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina from 1973 to
1978, responsible for the state's employment service, unemployment
insurance, and labor market information programs. From 1962 to 1973,
Emmrich held various management and executive positions in the Macke
Company. Prior to entering the private sector, Emmrich served in the
U.S. Army as an officer in Army Intelligence and Security. A former
president of the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies,
Inc., Emmrich currently serves on that organization's Employment and
Training Committee. Emmrich has a BA degree in economics from
Davidson College.
LARRY V. HEDGES is chairman of the Measurement Evaluation and
Statistical Analysis Program and of the Department of Education at the
University of Chicago. His research is concerned with statistical methods
for combining evidence from replicated research studies, statistical mod-
els in cognitive psychology, and the social psychology of scientific
research. He is the coauthor (with Ingram Olkin) of Statistical Methods
for Meta-Analysis and is the associate editor of the Journal of Educa-
tional Statistics and Psychological Bulletin. He received a BA degree
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from the University of California, San Diego, and MS and PhD degrees
from Stanford University, all in statistics.
IRA J. HIRSH is Edward Mallinckrodt distinguished university professor
of psychology and audiology at Washington University, where he has also
been chair of the Department of Psychology and dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences. His research on speech, hearing, and deafness has
been carried out at the Central Institute for the Deaf, where he was
formerly director of research and is currently senior research scientist.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the
Acoustical Society of America (past president), the American Psycholog-
ical Association, and the American Speech and Hearing Association.
From 1982 to 1987 he was chair of the Commission on Behavioral and
Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council. He has
an AB degree from the New York State College for Teachers at Albany,
an MA degree from Northwestern University, and a PhD degree in
experimental psychology from Harvard University.
RICHARD M. JAEGER is professor of education and director of the
Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at the University of
North Carolina, Greensboro. His research is concerned with educational
measurement and applied statistics. He is coeditor of Minimum Compe-
tency Achievement Testing (1980), author of Statistics: A Spectator Sport
(1983) and Sampling in Education and the Social Sciences (1984), and
editor of Complementary Methods for Research in Education (19871. He
is past editor of the Journal of Educational Measurement and is on the
editorial boards of several journals. He is past president of the National
Council on Measurement in Education and a member of the American
Statistical Association, the American Educational Research Association,
and the American Evaluation Association. He received a BA degree in
mathematics from Pepperdine College and MS and PhD degrees in
mathematical statistics and educational research methodology, respec-
tively, from Stanford University.
STEPHEN P. KLEIN is a senior research scientist with the RAND
Corporation where he directs policy research studies in the fields of
education, health, and criminal justice. He also serves as a consultant to
several professional licensing boards on matters relating to testing. He is
a member of the American Psychological Association, the American
Educational Research Association, and the National Council on Measure-
ment in Education. He received a BS degree from Tufts University and
MS and PhD degrees in industrial psychology from Purdue University.
ROBERT L. LINN is professor of education at the University of Colo-
rado, Boulder. His research is directed at applied and theoretical prob
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lems in educational and psychological measurement. He is a former
president of the Division of Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics of
the American Psychological Association, former president of the National
Council on Measurement in Education, and former vice president of the
American Educational Research Association for the Division of Measure-
ment and Research Methodology. He has served as editor of the Journal
of Educational Measurement and was vice chair of the committee that
developed the 1985 Standards for Educational and Psychological Test-
ing. He received an AB degree in psychology from the University of
California, Los Angeles, and an MA degree in psychology and a PhD
degree in psychological measurement from the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign.
JOHN M. RAUSCHENBERGER is a personnel research consultant in the
Workforce Research and Selection Systems Section of the Employee
Development Office at the Ford Motor Company. He is a member of the
American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and
Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management, and the Equal
Employment Advisory Council's Subcommittee on Employee Selection
Procedures. He serves as a special reviewer for the Journal of Appliecl
Psychology and is on the editorial board of Personnel Psychology journal.
He received a BS degree in psychology and MA and PhD degrees in
industrial psychology, all from Michigan State University.
MICHAEL ROTHSCHILD is professor of economics and dean of social
sciences, University of California, San Diego. His research concerns the
economics of information, financial economics, law and economics, and
industrial organization. He is a member and fellow of the Econometric
Society and a member of the American Economic Association. He
received a BA degree from Reed College, an MA degree from Yale
University, and a PhD degree in economics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
PAUL R. SACKETT is associate professor at the Industrial Relations
Center of the University of Minnesota. He was previously associate
professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and on the
faculty of the School of Business at the University of Kansas. He has
published extensively in the areas of assessment of managerial potential,
job analysis, honesty in the workplace, and psychometric issues in
employee selection. He is coauthor (with George F. Dreher) of Perspec-
tives on Employee Stapling and Selection (1983), editor of Personnel
Psychology, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied
Psychology. He received a PhD degree in psychology from the Ohio State
University.
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O. PETER SHERWOOD iS solicitor general of New York State. A
litigator, he has tried cases and argued appeals in many state and federal
courts, including several cases involving challenges to employment
testing practices under Title VII. Before joining the Office of the New
York Attorney General, he was an assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where his practice was focused on
fair employment practices litigation. Until 1987 he was an adjunct
assistant professor of law at the New York University School of Law,
where he taught constitutional law and fair employment practices law. He
received a BA degree from Brooklyn College of the City University of
New York and a ID degree from New York University School of Law.
HOWARD F. TAYLOR iS professor of sociology at Princeton University.
His research interests encompass the methodology of test score herita-
bility estimation, social psychology, and race and ethnic relations. His
books include The IQ Game: A Methodological Inquiry into the Heredity-
Environment Controversy (1980) and Balance in Small Groups (1978~. He
is a member of the American Sociological Association, a fellow of the
Sociological Research Association, and vice president of the Eastern
Sociological Society and has been a member of the editorial boards of
several journals. He received a BA degree from Hiram College and MA
and PhD degrees in sociology from Yale University.
ALEXANDRA K. WIGDOR iS study director of the Committee on the
General Aptitude Test Battery and also serves as study director of the
Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel. Previously, as
study director of the Committee on Ability Testing, she coedited (with
Wendell R. Garner) Ability Testing: Uses, Consequences, and Contro-
versies (1982~. Trained as an historian, her research interests now include
human performance assessment, the legal and social dimensions of
psychological testing, and the development of governmental policy on
testing and selection. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she received BA and
MA degrees from the University of Missouri and studied further at the
Free University of Berlin, the University of Maryland, and the Institute
for Historical Research, University of London.
HILDA WING, currently a research psychologist with the Federal
Aviation Administration, served as research associate for the Committee
on the General Aptitude Test Battery and the Committee on the Perfor-
mance of Military Personnel. Previously she was with the Psychological
Corporation, served as chief of the predictor development team at the
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and
was research psychologist at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Her primary area of expertise is personnel testing. She is a member of the
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American Psychological Association and has served as chair of its
Committee on Employment and Human Resources, and of its Committee
on Psychological Tests and Assessment. She received an AB degree in
mathematics from Middlebury College and MA and PhD degrees in
experimental psychology from the Johns Hopkins University.
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