Kristin M. Morrison

Kristin Morrison received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing on quantitative psychology with a minor in cognition and a research agenda centered around education. Her research interests focus on improving measurement approaches and providing useful outcomes to teachers and students. At CA, Kristin has focused primarily on the adaptive assessments, conducting research on the components of the adaptive algorithm and aiding with maintenance. Other work has focused on assessment monitoring, field testing, and most recently supporting the Spanish reading assessments. Prior to joining CA, Kristin worked at ACT, where she provided support for the ACT programs and conducted research on device comparability.

• Davis, L. L., Morrison, K., Schnieders, J., & Marsh, B. (2021). Developing authentic digital math assessments. Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 22(1), 1–11.
• Steedle, J. T., & Morrison, K. M. (2018). Embedded field test item statistics: Can they be trusted for estimating student proficiency? Educational Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627197.2018.1543543
• Morrison, K., & Embretson, S. (2018a). Item generation. In P. Irving, T. Booth, & D. Hughes (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of psychometric testing: A multidisciplinary reference on survey, scale and test development. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Morrison, K. M., & Embretson, S. (2018b). Standardized tests. In The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing.

Academic Presentations

• Morrison, K. M., & Cappaert, K. J. (2023, April). Investigating conditional adaptivity for targeting item development. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL.
• Morrison, K. M., Cappaert, K. J., & Davis, L. (2022, April). School versus remote testers: Rating the consistency of test scores. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA.
• Cappaert, K., Morrison, K. M., & Su, Y. (2022, April). Relaxed CAT: An extended b-matching method for content relaxed item selection. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA.
• Morrison, K., Skorupski, B., Paulsen, J., Carmody, D., & Meisner, R. (2019, April). Using item content and category information to predict item parameters. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• Morrison, K. M., & Embretson, S. (2016, April). Exploring an automated approach to examining linguistic context in mathematics items. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Washington, D.C.

National Council on Measurement in Education