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Overview

Steven L. Wise is affiliated with the Northwest Evaluation Association in the United States. Their research contributions primarily focus on the fields of psychology and social sciences, with notable work in subfields such as social psychology, management science and operations research, cognitive neuroscience, education, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's publication record includes papers in several academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Applied Measurement in Education
  • Educational Assessment
  • Journal of Educational Measurement
  • Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
  • Educational Research and Evaluation

Key topics explored in their research include psychometric methodologies and testing, grit, self-efficacy, and motivation, student assessment and feedback, behavioral health and interventions, global educational reforms and inequalities, education, achievement, and giftedness, and motivation and self-concept in sports.

They have coauthored work with researchers including Megan Kuhfeld, G. Gage Kingsbury, Benjamin W. Domingue, Klint Kanopka, and Ben Stenhaug.

Among recent publications, some notable papers are:

  • Using Retest Data to Evaluate and Improve Effort-Moderated Scoring, 2020, Journal of Educational Measurement
  • The Impact of Test-Taking Disengagement on Item Content Representation, 2020, Applied Measurement in Education
  • Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off? Not So Fast: Marginal Changes in Speed Have Inconsistent Relationships With Accuracy in Real-World Settings, 2022, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
  • Six insights regarding test-taking disengagement, 2020, Educational Research and Evaluation
  • The Impact of Disengaged Test Taking on a State's Accountability Test Results, 2021, Educational Assessment

Best Publications

  • Development of the Multicultural Counseling Inventory: A self-report measure of multicultural competencies.

    Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky;Richard C. Taffe;Terry B. Gutkin;Steven L. Wise

  • Low Examinee Effort in Low-Stakes Assessment: Problems and Potential Solutions.

    Steven L. Wise;Christine E. DeMars

  • Response Time Effort: A New Measure of Examinee Motivation in Computer-Based Tests

    Steven L. Wise;Xiaojing Kong

  • The development and validation of a scale measuring attitudes toward statistics

    Steven L. Wise

  • An Application of Item Response Time: The Effort‐Moderated IRT Model

    Steven L. Wise;Christine E. DeMars

  • The Therapeutic Reactance Scale: A Measure of Psychological Reactance

    E. Thomas Dowd;Christopher R. Milne;Steven L. Wise

  • An Investigation of the Differential Effort Received by Items on a Low-Stakes Computer-Based Test.

    Steven L. Wise

  • Rapid‐Guessing Behavior: Its Identification, Interpretation, and Implications

    Steven L. Wise

  • Examinee Noneffort and the Validity of Program Assessment Results

    Steven L. Wise;Christine E. DeMars

  • The Development and Validation of the Information Literacy Test

    Lynn Cameron;Steven L. Wise;Susan M. Lottridge

  • Correlates of Rapid-Guessing Behavior in Low-Stakes Testing: Implications for Test Development and Measurement Practice

    Steven L. Wise;Dena A. Pastor;Xiaojing J. Kong

  • Setting the Response Time Threshold Parameter to Differentiate Solution Behavior From Rapid-Guessing Behavior

    Xiaojing J. Kong;Steven L. Wise;Dennison S. Bhola

  • Teacher Beliefs About Training in Testing and Measurement

    Steven L. Wise;Leslie E. Lukin;Linda L. Roos

  • Research on the Effects of Administering Tests via Computers

    Steven L. Wise;Barbara S. Plake

  • Setting Response Time Thresholds for a CAT Item Pool: The Normative Threshold Method

    Steven L. Wise;Lingling Ma

  • Construct validity study of the Racial Identity Attitude Scale.

    Joseph G. Ponterotto;Steven L. Wise

  • Student satisfaction as a measure of departmental quality.

    Larry A. Braskamp;Steven L. Wise;Dennis D. Hengstler

  • Modeling Student Test-Taking Motivation in the Context of an Adaptive Achievement Test

    Steven L. Wise;G. Gage Kingsbury

  • Effort Analysis: Individual Score Validation of Achievement Test Data

    Steven L. Wise

  • Computer-Based Testing in Higher Education.

    Steven L. Wise;Barbara S. Plake

  • Taking the Time to Improve the Validity of Low-Stakes Tests: The Effort-Monitoring CBT.

    Steven L. Wise;Dennison S. Bhola;Sheng-Ta Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry B. Gutkin
Terry B. Gutkin University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Joseph G. Ponterotto
Joseph G. Ponterotto Fordham University

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