William D. Schafer, Ed.D
William D. Schafer, Ed.D., Affiliated Professor (Emeritus), Department
of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, University of Maryland—College
Park, received his doctoral degree from the University of Rochester)
in 1969. He is Affiliated Professor (Emeritus), Department of Measurement,
Statistics, and Evaluation, University of Maryland—College Park,
specializing in measurement and applied research methods. He has also
been Director of Student Assessment, Maryland State Department of Education.
His professional offices include Chair of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group (SIG): Educational
Statisticians, Chair of AERA SIG: Professors of Educational
Research, founding Chair of AERA SIG: Classroom Assessment, President
of the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Association for
Assessment in Counseling and Education (AACE), and editor of Measurement
and Evaluation in Counseling and Development (a journal of
the AACE). He serves on the editorial boards of Applied Measurement in
Education and Educational and Psychological Measurement and coedits
Practical Assessment, Research, & Evaluation, a free, refereed e-journal
at http://PAREonline.net. He is also on staff at the Maryland Assessment
Research Center for Education Success (MARCES). A professional biography,
including recent publications and presentations, may be found at
his home page, which can be linked from the MARCES web site (http://
www.marces.org).