Ontology Engineering, Educational Measurement, and Quantitative Methods

contact: katzdanb@gmail.com

EDUCATION

PhD: Education - Quantitative Research Methods and Philosophy of Measurement
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022
     Committee: Andrew Maul, Karen Nylund-Gibson, Diana Arya
M.A. Education - Quantitative Research Methods
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
     Committee: Andrew Maul, Karen Nylund-Gibson, Diana Arya
BA (2011), Political Science, Minor in History
University of California, Santa Barbara


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Ontology (philosophically) and ontology in the information science sense
The Rasch Model and Item Response Theory
Explanatory Item Response Models
Philosophy of Measurement, Language, and Statistics
Casual Inference
Measuring student literacy and other non-academic abilities


RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

NWEA - Division of HMH (2022 - Present)

Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) (2022 - 2023)

UCSB Community Based Literacies Project - Measurement Specialist (2021 - Present)

Microsoft (2021-2022)

University of Florida, Virtual Learning Lab – IES Funded Grant (2019-2020)

UCSB Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL) (2018-Present)

New York City Department of Education Assessment, Design, and Evaluation Team (Summer 2018)

UCSB California Dropout Research Project (CDRP) and Get Focused Stay Focused Evaluations (2016-2019)

UCSB General Education Assessment Project, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment Research Group (2016-2018)


PUBLISHED WORK

Katz, Daniel, Huggins-Manley, A. C., & Leite, W. (2022). Personalized online learning, test fairness, and educational measurement: Considering differential content exposure prior to a high stakes end of course exam. Applied Measurement in Education, 35(1), 1–16.

Arya, D. J., Sultana, S., Levine, S., Katz, Daniel, Galisky, J., & Karimi, H. (2021). Raising critical readers in the 21st century: A case of assessing fourth-grade reading abilities and practices. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 71(1), 418–436.

Clairmont, A. A., Katz, Daniel, & Wilton, M. (2021). Using Rasch measurement theory for responsive program evaluation. AERA Online Paper Repository.

Wilton, M., Katz, Daniel, Clairmont, A., Gonzalez-Nino, E., Foltz, K. R., & Christoffersen, R. E. (2021). Improving academic performance and retention of first-year biology students through a scalable peer mentorship program. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(4)

Arya, Diana, Clairmont, A. Katz, Daniel & Maul, A. (2020) Measuring Reading Strategy Use, Educational Assessment, 25:1, 5-30, DOI: 10.1080/10627197.2019.1702464

Maul, A. and Katz, D. (2018). Internal Validity. In B. Frey (Editor), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Katz, D. (2017, May). An Update: The Narrowing California High School Graduation Gap between Black, Latino, and White Students. (CDRP Statistical Brief No. 24). Retrieved from http://cdrpsb.org/pubs_statbriefs.htm

Katz, D. (2017, March). The Narrowing California High School Graduation Gap between Black, Latino, and White Students. (CDRP Statistical Brief No. 23). Retrieved from http://cdrpsb.org/pubs_statbriefs.htm. The Narrowing California High School Graduation Gap between Black, Latino, and White Students


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Katz, D. (presenter), Matta, T., Soo Suh, Y., Langi, M. Oppenzato, C., Connoly H, Kowalski S. Lazenby, K. (April 2023) Generating trustworthy measurement results about instructionally relevant attributes. Presented at National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW). Chicago.

Katz, D. (2021, February). Making Sense of Differential Item Functioning. International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW). Remote.

Clairmont, A. & Katz, D. (April, 2021). Using Rasch Measurement Theory for Responsive Program Evaluation. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA). Held Virtually

Katz, D, Huggins-Manley, A. C., & Leite, Walter(July, 2020). Technology-Enhanced Learning Platforms, Opportunity to Learn, and Test Fairness. Paper to be presented at the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS). To be presented at IMPS 2021.

Katz, D, Maul, A, Clairmont, A, Gordon-Wolf, M (June, 2020). Increasing transparency and clarity in construct definitions to improve psychological measurement. Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), Remote.

Katz, D and Clairmont A. (April, 2020). Should Psychometricians Make Claims About Test Fairness? Paper to be presented at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) (Postponed due to COVID).

Katz, D. and Diakow, R. (2019, April). Using Explanatory Item Response Theory Models to Re-Examine Fairness in Psychometrics. Paper to be presented at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) April 4-8, 2019. Toronto.

Katz, D.v, Nylund-Gibson, K., Furlong, M. (2019, April). Is One Item Enough? Examining Affect-Laden Survey Items Using Mixture Modelling with Distal Outcomes. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April 5-9, 2019. Toronto.
Best Graduate Student Paper in the AERA Survey Special Interest Group Sig

Katz, D., Clairmont, A., Arya, D., & Maul, A., (2018, April). Measuring Reading Strategy Use in a Multilingual Context. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April 13-17, 2018. New York.

Katz, D., Clairmont, A., Arya, D. & Maul, A. (2018, April). Measuring Reading Strategy Use in a Multidimensional, Multilingual Context. Paper presented at the International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW), April 10-12, 2018. New York.


SELECT IN PROGRESS RESEARCH PROJECTS

Clairmont, A. & Katz D. (in preperation) Using Rasch Measurement Theory for Program Evaluation: A Methods Note. To be submitted to American Journal of Evaluation

Reconsidering fairness in educational assessment: using tools from ethics, causal inference, and psychometrics

Using Rasch Measurement Theory for program evaluation

Measuring subjective well-being and other constructs in positive psychology using mixture modelling approaches (with an emphasis on educational settings).


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