Psychometric Staff Win Data Competition

Two National Board of Medical Examiners® (NBME®) psychometricians have received recognition for their work in data visualization. Richard Feinberg, PhD, and Dan Jurich, PhD, recently won the Educational Measurement Issues and Practices (EM:IP) cover graphic/data visualization competition for the fourth consecutive year with their entry Visualizing Hierarchical Score Inferences.

Psychometricians help ensure validity throughout the process of designing, building, scoring and reporting performance on assessments by being mindful of the inferences that can be made by users of the score information. Their winning graphic illustrates different inferences that may be desired by examinees and how reporting performance within these different contexts can change the interpretations made from the score report. This work reinforces the NBME’s commitment to understanding what’s meaningful to examinees, and using that understanding to create useful score reports that facilitate evidence-based decision making.

EM:IP is one of two prominent journals run by the National Council on Measurement in Education and a leading forum for measurement and psychometric research.