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Kylie Gorney is an Assistant Professor of Measurement and Quantitative Methods in the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education. She previously received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Quantitative Methods) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as a Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellow at Educational Testing Service. Dr. Gorney’s primary research interests include test security (i.e., detecting and preventing cheating on tests), item response theory (i.e., the dominant paradigm for scoring and analyzing tests), and computerized adaptive testing (i.e., the type of test that adapts as one progresses). Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Psychological Measurement, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and Journal of Educational Measurement.

Learn more about her career through her CV (2023).