University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Gregory Cizek has accepted nomination to serve on the National Technical Advisory committee of the U.S. Department of Education.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Gregory Cizek has accepted nomination to serve on the National Technical Advisory committee of the U.S. Department of Education.
The committee advises the secretary of education on issues regarding the assessment and accountability components of state standards and testing. Cizek was notified of his nomination recently by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.
A professor of educational measurement and evaluation in the UNC School of Education, Cizek teaches courses in applied psychometrics, statistics and research methods. In 2007, he received the Award for Outstanding Dissemination of Educational Measurement Concepts to the Public, presented by the National Council on Measurement in Education.
His current projects include studying test score validity and test security to inhibit cheating and test score corruption.
Cizek earned doctoral and master’s degrees at Michigan State University, studying curriculum, instruction, measurement, evaluation and research design.
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