2016 Recipient
Jamal Abedi University of California, Davis
The recipient of the E. F. Lindquist Award is Dr. Jamal Abedi, Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Davis, and Research Partner for the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) and the Center for the Study of Evaluation at UCLA. Findings from Dr. Abedi’s research have provided evidence that unnecessary linguistic complexity in assessments has a profound impact on the psychometric properties of the assessments for English language learners. This body of research has paved the way to a greater understanding of the validity of assessment results for all subgroups of students.
Named in honor of E.F. Lindquist, a pioneering scholar and researcher who co-founded The American College Testing Program (ACT), this award is co-sponsored by AERA and ACT and given annually for outstanding applied or theoretical research in the field of testing and measurement. It acknowledges a body of research, as opposed to a single work, of an empirical, theoretical, or integrative nature that, ideally, advances the twin goals of greater understanding and improved use of testing and measurement techniques.
The sponsors of the award seek to encourage and inspire research on issues important to both the research field and the well-being of those affected by that research.
Before 1987, the Award recognized only outstanding research in college student development. In 1987 and subsequent years it acquired a broader scope of recognition.
2015 - Howard Wainer 2014 - Mark D. Reckase 2013 - Eva Baker 2012 - Edward H. Haertel 2011 - Richard J. Shavelson 2010 - Michael Kane 2009 - Wim J. van der Linden 2008 - Wendy M. Yen 2007 - Robert J. Mislevy 2006 - H.D. Hoover 2005 - Ronald K. Hambleton 2004 - Robert L. Brennan 2003 - George Madaus 2002 - Dr. William A. Mehrens 2001 - Bert F. Green, Jr. 2000 - Paul Holland 1999 - Darrel Bock 1998 - Robert Glaser 1997 - John B. Carroll 1996 - Anne Anastasi 1995 - Leonard Felt 1994 - Samuel Messick 1993 - Robert Linn 1992 - Richard M. Jaeger 1991 - Benjamin Bloom 1990 - Melvin Novick 1989 - Robert Ebel 1988 - Frederic Lord 1987 - Robert L. Thorndike 1986 - K. Patricia Cross 1985 - Arthur Chickering 1984 - C. Robert Pace 1983 - Alexander Astin 1982 - David Reisman 1981 - William W. Turnbull 1980 - Paul Dressel 1979 - Burton Clark 1978 - Roger Heyns 1977 - T. R. McConnell 1976 - Ralph F. Berdie 1975 - William Sewell 1974 - Ralph Tyler 1973 - Theodore M. Newcomb 1972 - Wilbert J. McKeachie