TIMOTHY VANSICKLE
Chief Academic Officer, Questar Assessment, Inc.
Dr. Timothy Vansickle has worked in the educational assessment industry for nearly 30 years. As Chief Academic Officer at Questar Assessment, Inc., he is involved in the innovative design of new assessments, item types, technologies, and reporting. With his experience as a psychometrician, researcher, teacher, director of state assessment, and peer reviewer, all of Dr. Vansickle’s work has been aimed at improving teaching and learning by providing more useful information to students, teachers, parents, and administrators. One of his corporate and personal objectives is to build assessment systems and components that produce useful data to help students become ready for a productive life and lifelong learning.
Prior to Questar, Dr. Vansickle worked for the United States Department of Education as the Group Leader of Standards and Assessment, providing leadership on the peer review process and technical assistance. He also worked as the Director of State Assessments for Minnesota, where he led the effort to design new tests that made use of the latest computer technologies and of WorkKeys to help measure workplace skills.
Dr. Vansickle currently serves on the editorial board for Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development (MECD). He also routinely serves as a proposal reviewer for the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), the Association of Test Publishers (ATP), and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) National Conference on Student Assessment.
Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek | Orlando, Florida | March 20-23, 2016
