Mark D. Reckase

Mark D. Reckase is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University where he was in the Measurement and Quantitative Methods Program in the College of Education. He has taught courses in item response theory, large scale assessment, and advanced psychometric methods. Professor Reckase has published widely in the areas of item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, value-added modeling, and setting standards on educational tests. He is currently writing a book on the theory of standard setting.

Professor Reckase has been the president of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and the International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing (IACAT), the vice president of Division D of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the secretary of the Psychometric Society. He has served as the editor of the Journal of Educational Measurement and Applied Psychological Measurement. Prior to coming to Michigan State University, he was the assistant vice-president for Assessment Innovations at ACT, Inc. Earlier, he was on the faculty of the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia.