Aimee Boyd

Aimee Boyd, PhD, is a Principal Research Scientist at Curriculum Associates where her role includes developing, implementing, and applying psychometric research methods to early literacy and diagnostic assessments. Prior to Curriculum Associates, Dr. Boyd was the lead psychometrician for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments serving multiple state education agencies and led the Texas assessment programs for grades 3-8 at Pearson from 2009 – 2020. Her role consisted of developing and managing operational and research agendas to support the validity and reliability of state assessment programs to inform policy and technical decisions. Dr. Boyd also worked at ACT from 2003 – 2008 where her expertise in computer-based and computer-adaptive assessments supported the development and implementation of certification and licensure examinations such as the Graduate Management Admission Test. She received her doctorate in Educational Measurement at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003 and her master's degree in Program Evaluation at the University of Texas at Austin in 2001.

• Boyd, A. M., Dodd, B. G., & Fitzpatrick, S. J. (2013). A comparison of exposure control procedures in CAT systems based on different measurement models for testlets. Applied Psychological Measurement, 26(2), 113–135.
• Boyd, A. M., Dodd, B. G., & Choi, S.-W. (2011). Polytomous models in computerized adaptive testing. In M. Nering & O. R. Ostini (Eds.), Handbook of polytomous item response theory models: Development and applications. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Academic Presentations

• Boyd, A. M., Headley, M., Louzeiro, K., & Horowitz, K. (2026, April). Evaluating authenticity and accuracy for voice recognition early literacy tasks. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Los Angeles, CA.
• Boyd, A. M., Headley, M., Perna, M., & Su, Y. (2025, April). Demystifying literacy screeners through synthesizing literacy assessment results. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Denver, CO.
• Minchen, N., McBride, M., & Boyd, A. (2020, April). The effects of item weighting on scores in mixed-format tests. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA.

National Council on Measurement in Education