Past, Present, and Incoming Presidents

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Term Name Institution and Presidential Address
2023-24

David Kaplan

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University of Wisconsin – Madison

Probabilistic forecasting with International large-scale assessments: Methods for estimating the pace of progress to the UN education sustainable development targets

2022-23

Jeff Douglas

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Some dichotomies in restricted latent class models for diagnostic classification

2021-22

Irini Moustaki

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London School of Economics

Estimation methods for simple and complex psychometric models

2019-21

Dan Bolt

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University of Wisconsin – Madison

Item Complexity: A Neglected Psychometric Feature of Test Items?

2018-19

Francis Tuerlinckx

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KU Leuven, Belgium

Things I have learnt so far

2017-18

Cees Glas

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University of Twente, The Netherlands

Psychometric tools for practical problems in educational measurement

2016-17

Anders Skrondal

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Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

The role of conditional likelihoods in latent variable modeling

2015-16

Terry Ackerman

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

Differential item functioning from a multidimensional item response theory perspective

2014-15

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

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University of California – Berkeley, USA

Ignoring nonignorable missingness

2013-14

Alberto Maydeu-Olivares

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University of Barcelona, Spain

Assessing the size of model misfit in structural equation models

2012-13

Hua-Hua Chang

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Psychometrics Behind Computerized Adaptive Testing

2011-12

Mark Wilson

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University of California – Berkeley, USA

Seeking a Balance Between the Statistical and Scientific Elements in Psychometrics

2010-11

Klaas Sijtsma

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Tillburg University, The Netherlands

Future of Psychometrics: Ask What Psychometrics Can Do for Psychology

2009-10

Jos ten Berge

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University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Simplicity and Typical Rank Results for Three-Way Arrays

2008-09

Brian Junker

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Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Some New Connections for Nonparametric Item Response Modeling

2007-08

Paul De Boeck

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KU Leuven, Belgium

Random Item IRT Models

2006-07

Roger S. Millsap

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Arizona State University, USA

Invariance in Measurement and Prediction Revisited

2005-06

Ulf Boeckenholt

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McGill University, Canada

Thurstonian-Based Analyses: Past, Present and Future Utilities

2004-05

Robert Cudeck

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University of Minnesota, USA

Fitting Psychometric Models Using Gradient Methods and Automatic Derivatives

2003-04

Willem J. Heiser

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Leiden University, The Netherlands

Geometric Representation of Association Between Categories

2002-03

Jacqueline J. Meulman

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Leiden University, The Netherlands

Prediction and Classification in Nonlinear Data Analysis: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

2001-02

William Stout

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University Of Illinois & Educational Testing Service, USA

Psychometrics: From Practice To Theory And Back: 15 Years of Nonparametric Multidimensional IRT, DIF/Test Equity, and Skills Diagnostic Assessment

2000-01

David Thissen

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Psychometric Engineering as Art

1999-00

Wim J. van der Linden

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University of Twente, The Netherlands

A Test-Theoretic Approach to Observed-Score Equating

1998-99

Susan E. Embretson

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University of Kansas, USA

Generating Items During Testing: Psychometric Issues and Models

1997-98

Ivo W. Molenaar

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University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Data, Model, Conclusion, Doing it Again

1996-97

Fumiko Samejima

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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Departure from Normal Assumptions: A Promise for Future Psychometrics with Substantive Mathematical Modeling

1995-96

Shizuhiko Nishisato

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Ontario Institute for Studies in Education & The University of Toronto, Canada

Gleaning in the Field of Dual Scaling

1994-95

Gerhard H. Fischer

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University of Vienna, Austria

Some Neglected Problems in IRT

1993-94

Robert J. Mislevy

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Educational Testing Service, USA

Evidence and Inference in Educational Assessment

1992-93

William Meredith

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University of California – Berkeley, USA

Measurement Invariance, Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance

1991-92

Michael W. Browne

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The Ohio State University, USA

Circumplex Models for Correlation Matrices

1990-91

Phipps Arabie

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Rutgers University, USA

Was Euclid an Unnecessarily Sophisticated Psychologist?

1989-90

Paul W. Holland

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Educational Testing Service, USA

On the Sampling Theory Foundations of Item Response Theory Models

1988-89

Bengt O. Muthén

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University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Latent Variable Modeling in Heterogeneous Populations

1987-88

Jan de Leeuw

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University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Multivariate Analysis with Linearizable Regressions

1986-87

Yoshio Takane

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McGill University, Canada

Analysis of Contingency Tables by Ideal Point Discriminant Analysis

1985-86

Roderick P. McDonald

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Macquarie University, Australia

Describing the Elephant: Structure and Function in Multivariate Data

1984-85

Bruce Bloxom

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Vanderbilt University, USA

Considerations in Psychometric Modeling of Response Time

1983-84

Lawrence J. Hubert

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University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Statistical Applications of Linear Assignment

1982-83

Peter M. Bentler

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University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Some Contributions to Efficient Statistics in Structural Models: Specification and Estimation of Moment Structures

1981-82

James O. Ramsay

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McGill University, Canada

When the Data are Functions

1980-81

Forrest W. Young

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Data

1979-80

Melvin R. Novick

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The University of Iowa, USA

Statistics as Psychometrics

1978-79

Norman Cliff

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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Test Theory Without True Scores?

1977-78

Karl G. Jöreskog

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University of Uppsala, Sweden

Structural Analysis of Covariance and Correlation Matrices

1976-77

R. Duncan Luce

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Harvard University, USA

Thurstone’s Discriminal Processes Fifty Years Later

1975-76

J. Douglas Carroll

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Bell Laboratories, USA

Spatial, Non-Spatial and Hybrid Models for Scaling

1974-75

Joseph B. Kruskal

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Bell Telephone Laboratories, USA

Some Advances in Parametric Mapping

1973-74

Roger N. Shepard

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Stanford University, USA

Representation of Structure in Similarity Data: Problems and Prospects

1972-73

R. Darrell Bock

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University of Chicago, USA

Word and image: Sources of the Verbal and Spatial Factors in Mental Test Scores

1971-72

Samuel J. Messick

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Educational Testing Service, USA

Beyond Structure: In Search of Functional Models of Psychological Process

1970-71

Louis Guttman

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Hebrew University and Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, Israel

Measurement as Structural Theory

1969-70

Henry F. Kaiser

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University of California – Berkeley, USA

A Second Generation Little Jiffy

1968-69

Harry H. Harman

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Educational Testing Service, USA

Retrospective Anticipation

1967-68

B. J. Winer

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Purdue University, USA

The Error

1966-67

Chester W. Harris

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University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

On Factors and Factor Scores

1965-66

Bert F. Green, Jr.

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Carnegie Institute of Technology, USA

The Computer Revolution in Psychometrics

1964-65

Warren S. Torgerson

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The Johns Hopkins University, USA

Multidimensional Scaling of Similarity

1963-64

Allen L. Edwards

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University of Washington, USA

Social Desirability and Performance on the MMPI

1962-63

Lyle V. Jones

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Beyond Babbage

1961-62

Philip H. Dubois

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Washington University, St. Louis, USA

On Relationships Between Numbers and Behavior

1960-61

John B. Carroll

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Harvard University, USA

The Nature of the Data, or How to Choose a Correlation Coefficient

1959-60

Lloyd G. Humphreys

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Investigations of the Simplex

1958-59

Frederic M. Lord

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Educational Testing Service, USA

An Approach to Mental Test Theory

1957-58

Frederick Mosteller

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Harvard University, USA

The Mystery of the Missing Corpus

1956-57

Hubert E. Brogden

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The Adjutant General’s Office, USA

New Problems for Old Solutions

1955-56

Clyde H. Coombs

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University of Michigan, USA

The Scale Grid: Some Interrelations of Data Models

1954-55

Ledyard R. Tucker

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Princeton University and Educational Testing Service, USA

Psychometric Theory: General and Specific

1953-54

Lee J. Cronbach

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Report on a Psychometric Mission to Clinicia

1952-53

Robert L. Thorndike

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Columbia University, USA

Who Belongs in the Family?

1951-52

John C. Flanagan

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University of Pittsburgh, USA

Methodology in Psychology

1950-51

Quinn McNemar

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Stanford University, USA

The Factors in Factoring Behavior

1949-50

Dorothy C. Adkins

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

A Superior Rotational Method in Factor Analysis or Psychometricians in Government Service

1948-49

Phillip Justin Rulon

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Harvard University, USA

Matrix Representation of Models for the Analysis of Variance and Covariance

1947-48

Irving Lorge

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Columbia University, USA

 

1946-47

Harold A. Edgerton

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The Ohio State University, USA

1945-46

Edward E. Cureton

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Richardson, Bellows, Henry & Co., Inc., USA

Quantitative Psychology as a Rational Science

1944-45

Harold Gulliksen

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University of Chicago, USA
1943-44

Henry E. Garrett

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Columbia University, USA

1941-43

Paul Horst

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Proctor & Gamble, USA

The Twilight of Rugged Individualism in Quantitative Psychology

1940-41

Jack W. Dunlap

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University of Rochester, USA

The Psychometric Society – Roots and Powers

1939-40

Karl J. Holzinger

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University of Chicago, USA

A Synthetic Approach to Factor Analysis

1938-39

Truman L. Kelley

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Harvard University, USA

The Future Psychology of Mental Traits

1937-38

J. P. Guilford

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University of Nebraska, USA

A Study in Psychodynamics

1936-37

E. L. Thorndike

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Columbia University, USA

1935-36

L. L. Thurstone

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University of Chicago, USA

Psychology as a Quantitative Rational Science (full paper)

Psychology as a Quantitative Rational Science (excerpts)

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