Steven L. Wise, Ph.D.

Steven Wise Coordinates the Institute for Computer-Based Assessment at James Madison University. He is also a Professor of Psychology and teaches in JMU's Ph.D. program in Assessment and Measurement. He received his Ph.D. in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981. Prior to coming to JMU in 1998, Dr. Wise taught for 15 years in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has taught a variety of courses in applied measurement and statistics, including introductory and intermediate statistical methods, correlational methods, meta-analysis, measurement theory, item response theory, and computer-based testing.

Dr. Wise has published extensively during the past two decades in applied measurement, with particular emphases in computer-based testing and the psychology of test taking. In addition, he sits on the editorial board of several academic journals and provides psychometric consultation to a variety of organizations.