Sara Strouss Hennings, PhD

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Job Title

Psychometrician Project Management Customer Service

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

Psychometrician with vast experience encompassing a comprehensive in-depth knowledge of test development. Extremely qualified and knowledgeable in conducting complex psychometric analysis. Efficient, intuitive problem solver thriving in multitasking situations. Excellent technical writing and verbal communications skills. Strong leader creating cohesive and productive teams. Strong customer service perspective that maintains customer loyalty.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Item analysis

Item development

Scaling

Equating

Large scale scoring and reporting of test results

Traditional and Item Response Theory (IRT) methodologies.

Item writing workshops

Standard setting

Item-banking

Exam development

Norms development

Strong technical skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WeLearn Learning Services, Chicago, IL

Assessment Strategist 2020-2020

Direct item writing and reviewing for the Board Certification of Emergency Nursing (BCEN) Practice Test which includes four BCEN practice test content areas.

Facilitate item writing/reviewing sessions.

Lead frequent “virtual office hours” to assist subject-matter expert nurses in writing test items.

Edit/finalize items for implementation into the item bank for the final four practice tests.

American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL

Research Associate 2016-2019

Research Associate in Surgical Education, Military Health System Strategic Partnership, Division of Member Services Provided expertise in curriculum design, evaluation, test development, and psychometrics with the goal of defining, teaching, and assessing the knowledge and skills needed for the deployed military surgeon.

Developed the methods for assessing both cognitive and performance tasks.

Guided efforts to develop training curricula based on the established Test Blueprint that will aid in assuring readiness for future generations of combat-ready surgeons.

American Dental Association, Chicago, IL

Manager Test Development 2014-2015

Directed all aspects of test construction and test production for all licensure and admission testing programs within the Department of Testing Services. This included the management of eight staff members of various levels.

Integral team member in the discussions of the development of new admissions and licensure tests.

Expanded the test development plans to create comprehensive long-range blueprints for new test development.

MetaMetrics, Durham, NC

Director, State and Partner Research 2009-2014

Responsible for all studies linking a state or partner’s assessment to The Lexile Framework in Reading or The Quantile Framework in Mathematics. Interpret technical data by creating technical reports based on research studies using the customer’s tests to attach added value scales.

Provided measurement advice on technical issues in support of the company’s core business thus providing a unique, valuable perspective such as analyzing the data to highlight anomalies.

Suggested statistical solutions to the psychometric staff creating feasible alternatives, for instance, posing other equating models when the data didn’t fit the original model.

Pearson, Iowa City, IA

Senior Research Scientist 2006-2008

Lead Psychometrician for all psychometric activities and services associated with ADP Algebra I and Algebra II End-of-Course Exams. Led psychometric services group to generate superior assessments through research design, sampling, scaling and equating, fairness, quality assurance, and customer-driven support.

Implemented and maintained a quality testing program in coordination with Achieve, Inc. to support the American Diploma Project which resulted in error-free score reporting of customers’ test results.

Created materials for and conducted data-review meetings to fulfill a critical step in the test development process determining if the test items were ready to be utilized on an operational test.

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

Riverside Insights, LLC, Itasca, IL

Principal Research Scientist

Director, Measurement Research

Senior Project Director

Arthur Andersen & Co., St. Charles, IL

Senior Evaluation Specialist, Professional Education Division

Research and Service Institute, Inc., Brentwood, TN

Measurement/Statistical Consultant

Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Statistical Consultant, Program Evaluation Laboratory

Tennessee Department of Education, Nashville, TN

Director, State Testing and Evaluation Center

University of Tennessee, Nashville, TN

Director of Career Ladder Testing Service, State Testing and Evaluation Center

EDUCATION

PhD, Educational Research/Measurement/Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

MA, Educational Research/Measurement/Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

BS, Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

HONORS AND AWARDS

2010-present Selected for inclusion into the Elite American Educators.

2010-present Expert resource in the field of Psychometrics selected by Cambridge Who’s Who Top 101 Industry Experts.

2010-present Honored member recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who, the registry of executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs.

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