SRI International Names Howard T. Everson Co-Director for Assessment Research in SRI Education

MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SRI International today announced that Howard Everson, Ph.D., is joining SRI Education, a division of SRI International, as co-director of Assessment Research. Working with Assessment Research Director Geneva Haertel, Ph.D., Everson will lead the design and development of innovative, technology-based assessments of student proficiency in STEM-related disciplines.

Everson's experience directing research for the College Board and ETS, as well as the National Assessment of Educational Progress Statistical Services Institute, will be leveraged to help states and school districts use student assessments strategically in their efforts to implement new college and career-ready standards. In collaboration with colleagues from SRI's Center for Technology in Learning, Everson will design and lead studies of the validity of learning assessments embedded within online games and other digital learning environments.

Previously, Everson was a professor of psychology and director of the Center for Advanced Study in Education at the Graduate School of the City University of New York (CUNY). Everson's research and scholarly interests focus on the intersection of cognition, the learning sciences and assessment. He has contributed to developments in educational psychology, psychometrics and quantitative methods. 

Before joining the Center for Advanced Study in Education at CUNY, Everson was a faculty member in the doctoral program in psychometrics at Fordham University. Prior to joining Fordham University, Everson also served as the executive director of the NAEP Statistical Services Institute at the American Institutes for Research, and was the vice president and chief research scientist at the College Board. Everson also served as the executive director of the NAEP Educational Statistics Services Institute at the American Institutes for Research and was the vice president and chief research scientist at the College Board. 

Everson earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College, an M.S. in teacher education from Montclair State College in New Jersey, and Ph.D. in educational psychology from City University of New York. He was a Psychometric Fellow at the Educational Testing Service and is an elected Fellow of both the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association. He has authored two books and 16 book chapters, and has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including Instructional Science, Applied Psychological Measurement, Journal of Educational and Psychological Measurement, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Anxiety, Stress and Coping, the Educational Psychologist and Teachers College Record. Everson has been named the incoming editor of the journal Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices, published by the National Council for Measurement in Education.

SRI Education, a division of SRI International, is tackling the most complex issues in education to help students succeed. We work with federal and state agencies, school districts, major foundations, nonprofit organizations, and international and commercial clients to address risk factors that impede learning, assess learning gains, and use technology for educational innovation. SRI International, a research center headquartered in Menlo Park, California, creates world-changing solutions making people safer, healthier, and more productive.

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