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ABOUT

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Marianne Perie
Founder and President
Develop school accountability systems
EDUCATION

Ph.D. Educational Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, May 1994

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA B.A. Psychology, May 1990

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2016–Present Director, Center for Assessment and Accountability Research and Design

2014–2016 Director, Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation.

2013–March 2014 Co-Director, Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation.

2013–Present Courtesy Graduate Faculty

National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc. Dover, NH

2006–2013 Senior Associate

Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

2003–2006 Senior Program Administrator

American Institutes for Research. Washington, DC.

2002–2003 Principal Research Analyst

1998–2002 Senior Research Analyst

1995–1998 Research Analyst

Pinkerton Computer Consultants, Inc. Alexandria, VA

1993–1995 Programmer/Analyst

NYMA, Inc. Greenbelt, MD

1991–1993 Data Analyst

University of Virginia, Bureau of Educational Research. Charlottesville, VA

1991–1993 Research Assistant

Cornell University, Psychology Department. Ithaca, NY

1989–1990 Research/Teaching Assistant

Reading is Fundamental, Inc. Washington, DC

1988–1990 Junior Program Specialist

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2016, Adjunct Professor, EPSY 822, Scales and Scaling, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Fall 2014, Substitute instructor, Graduate Seminar in Psychology and Research in Education University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Fall 2013, co-Instructor, Graduate Seminar in Psychology and Research in Education University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Spring 2004, co-Instructor, Standard Setting Methods for NAEP State Coordinators University of Maryland, College Park, MD

1992-1993, Teaching Assistant, SAS Programming in Educational Research, Measurement, and Education University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

AICPA Psychometric Oversight Committee, 2018–present

Wisconsin Technical Advisory Committee, 2017–present

Washington, DC Technical Advisory Committee, 2017–present

Kentucky Technical Advisory Committee, 2017–present

Indiana Technical Advisory Committee, 2016–present

ELPA21 Consortium Technical Advisory Committee, 2014-2015

Oklahoma Technical Advisory Committee, 2013–present

New York Technical Advisory Committee co-Chair, 2012–present

Tennessee Technical Advisory Committee Chair, 2012–present

Council for Chief State School Officers, Technical Advisor, 2012–present

Council for Chief State School Officers, Coordinator for Technical Issues in Large Scale Assessment (TILSA), 2014–2017

North Carolina Technical Advisory Committee, 2013–2014

College Board Research Advisory Committee, 2012–2017

GED Testing Service Technical Advisory Committee, 2008–2014

Pennsylvania Technical Advisory Committee Facilitator, 2007–2012

Puerto Rico Technical Advisory Committee 2007–2012

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND HONORS

American Educational Research Associate 1991–2017

National Council on Measurement in Education 1991–present Chair

NCME Publications Committee, 2013–2015 Member

NCME Publications Committee, 2009–2013 Chair

NCME Brenda Loyd Dissertation Committee, 2009–2010 Member

NCME Brenda Loyd Dissertation Committee, 2007–2009 Chair

Large Scale Assessment Special Interest Group, 2006–2008 Editorial Board

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices 2004–2006, 2010-present Chair

NCME Outreach and Partnership Committee 2004–2005 Member

NCME Outreach and Partnership Committee 2003–2006

Design state and school report cards with a focus on the interpretability and usability of reports
 
Run standard-setting workshops
and evaluate methodologies for both setting and reviewing cut scores
 
Build capacity on assessment literacy and data use

State testing

District testing

Computer-based testing

Setting standards

Validation

Parsing Federal education policy

Meeting state education policy

Technical advisor

Facilitator

School accountability

Student growth

Using test data

Creating score reports+ougt

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