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Luz Bay, Ph.D.

Director, Data Processing and Analysis

Dr. Bay joined Measured Progress as a senior psychometrician in 1999. As director of data processing and analysis, she is responsible for all work related to data processing, data analysis, and quality assurance of assessment results. She also provides psychometric expertise and support for the application of quantitative methodologies to state assessment contracts.

Prior to joining Measured Progress, Dr. Bay was a psychometrician in the research division at ACT, Inc. for five years. She served as the assistant project director for the National Assessment of Educational Progress Achievement Levels-Setting Project for the National Assessment Governing Board. She was involved in both the operational and research aspects of setting achievement levels for the 1994 NAEP in geography and U.S. history, the 1996 NAEP in science, and the 1998 NAEP in civics and writing, which included an extensive research agenda that was her primary responsibility.

In addition to her involvement in the research and operational aspects of the project, Dr. Bay facilitated the achievement levels-setting meetings and was in charge of training other facilitators. She has written numerous reports presented to the NAEP Technical Advisory Committee on Standard Setting on results of research studies related to the NAEP standard setting process. In her previous position, she played a major role in conceptualizing, designing, and implementing research studies for the NAEP ALS project. She has consulted with professionals in the fields of measurement and psychometrics not only within ACT, Inc., but also the larger measurement community.

Dr. Bay is an active member of the National Council of Measurement in Education and the American Educational Research Association. In 2000 she co-founded the AERA Special Interest Group in Large-Scale Assessment. For the AERA 2005 conference she was a program chair for Division D – Measurement and Research Methodology. Her research interests include large-scale assessment, standard setting, and cheating detection.

Dr. Bay has a Ph.D. in educational measurement and statistics and a Master’s degree in mathematics from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños.

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