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Spring, 2021 Curriculum Vitae David Thissen Department of Psychology Spring, 2021 Curriculum Vitae David Thissen Department of Psychology & Neuroscience University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 235 E. Cameron Avenue Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270 (919) 962-5036 [email protected] Education: B.A., Psychology, St. Louis University, June 1971 Ph.D., Behavioral Sciences, The University of Chicago, August 1976 Academic Honors and Affiliations: 1971 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, St. Louis University 1971-1972 NDEA Title IV fellow, University of Chicago 1972-1975 NSF Graduate fellow, University of Chicago 1973- Member, Psychometric Society 1979- Member, American Statistical Association (Fellow, 2006-) 1985- Member, National Council on Measurement in Education 1989 Elected to Sigma Xi, University of Kansas 1990- Member, American Psychological Society (Fellow, 1998-) 1994-1998 Senior Fellow, National Institute of Statistical Sciences 1999-2000 President-elect, Psychometric Society 2000-2001 President, Psychometric Society 2001-2002 Past President, Psychometric Society 2015 NCME Award for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement Teaching Interests: Statistical methods in the behavioral sciences Psychometric theory Graphics and statistics in psychological contexts Research Interests: Psychometrics, item response theory Models for human growth and development Graphics and statistics in psychological contexts -2- Editorial Activities: Reviewer for Applied Psychological Measurement Reviewer for Journal of Educational Measurement Reviewer for Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Reviewer for British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology Reviewer for Psychometrika Reviewer for Psychological Methods Book Review Editor for Psychometrika, 1980-1984 Associate Editor, Psychometrika, 1986-2002 Advisory Editor, Journal of Educational Measurement, 1989-1995 Editorial Board, Psychological Methods, 1995-2000 Editor, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2005-2007 Teaching and Research experience: 1976 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University (Summer) 1976-1981 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas 1981-1987 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas 1987-1990 Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas 1990-2003 Professor and Director, Quantitative Program, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1991-2003 Acting Director, L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003-2020 Professor, Quantitative Program, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2021- Professor Emeritus, Quantitative Program, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Publications: Bock, R.D., Wainer, H., Petersen, A., Thissen, D., Murray, J. & Roche, A.F. (1973). A parameterization for individual human growth curves. Human Biology, 45, 63-80. Thissen, D. & Wainer, H. (1973). Gapper: An IBM 360 program for finding gaps in univariate data strings. Behavioral Science, 18, 77-78. Thissen, D. & Wainer, H. (1973). EXPAK: Exploratory data analysis package: A FORTRAN IV program. Ann Arbor: National Educational Resources, Inc. Roche, A.F., Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1974). The Roche-Wainer-Thissen method of predicting adult stature. Proceedings of the Compte-Rendu de la XII Reunion Des Equippes Charge Des sur la Croissance et le Developpement de L’Enfant Normal. Paris, Pp. 50-62. Wainer, H . & Thissen, D. (1975). When jackknifing fails (or does it?). Psychometrika, 40, 113- 114. Roche, A.F., Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1975). Predicting adult stature for individuals. Monographs in Pediatrics, 3, Basel: Karger. Roche, A.F., Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1975). Skeletal maturity: The knee joint as a biological indicator. New York: Plenum Medical Book Co. -3- Roche, A.F., Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1975). The RWT method for the prediction of adult stature. Pediatrics, 56, 1026-1033. Rarick, G.L., Wainer, H., Thissen, D. & Seefeldt, V. (1975). A double logistic comparison of growth patterns of normal children and children with Down’s Syndrome. Annals of Human Biology, 2, 339-346. Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1975). Multivariate semi-metric smoothing in multiple prediction. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 70, 568-573. Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1976). Three steps toward robust regression. Psychometrika, 41, 9-34. Johnson, E.F., Wainer, H., Thissen, D. & MacVean, R. (1976). Hereditary and environmental determinants of growth in height in a longitudinal sample of children and youth of Guatemalan and European ancestry. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 44, 469- 475. Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1976). Two programs for predicting adult stature for individuals. Pediatrics, 58, 368-369. Thissen, D. (1976). Information in wrong responses to the Raven Progressive Matrices. Journal of Educational Measurement, 13, 201-214. Thissen, D. Bock, R.D., Wainer, H. & Roche, A.F. (1976). Individual growth in stature: A comparison of four growth studies in the U.S.A. Annals of Human Biology, 3, 529-542. Thissen, D. & Wainer, H. (1977). EXPAK: A FORTRAN IV program for exploratory data analysis. Applied Psychological Measurement, 1, 49-50. Thissen, D. (1977). Review of Novick, M.R. & Jackson, R.H. Statistical methods for educational and psychological research. Psychometrika, 42, 315-316. Thissen, D. (1978). Review of Maxwell, A.E. Multivariate analysis in behavioral research. Applied Psychological Measurement, 2, 309-310. Potter, D.E., Broyer, M., Chantler, C., Gruskin, A., Holliday, M.A., Roche, A.F., Sharer, S. & Thissen, D. (1978). Measurement of growth in children with renal insufficiency. Kidney International, 14, 378-382. Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1979). On the robustness of a class of naive estimators. Applied Psychological Measurement, 3, 543-551. Holmes, D.S., Curtright, C., McCaul, K.D. & Thissen, D. (1980). Biorhythms: Their utility for predicting post-operative recuperative time, death, and athletic performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 65, 233-236. Bock, R.D. & Thissen, D. (1980). Statistical problems of fitting curves for individual growth in stature. In E.F. Johnson, A.F. Roche, and C. Susanne (Eds.), Human Physical Growth and Development: Methodologies & Factors. New York: Plenum, pp 265-290. Thissen, D. (1980). Latent trait scoring of timed ability tests. In D. Weiss (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1979 Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference, Computerized Adaptive Testing Laboratory, Psychometric Methods Program, Dept. of Psychology, University of Minnesota, pp. 257-277. Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1981). Graphical data analysis. In M.R. Rosenzweig and L.W. Porter (Eds.), Annual Review of Psychology, 32, 191-241. Schadler, M. & Thissen, D. (1981). The development of automatic word recognition and reading skill. Memory and Cognition, 9, 132-141. Thissen, D., Baker, L. & Wainer, H. (1981). Influence-enhanced scatterplots. Psychological Bulletin, 90, 179-184. -4- Kemper, S. & Thissen, D. (1981). Dimensions of requests. In Michael M.T. Hendersen (Ed.), 1980 Mid-American Linguistics Conference Papers, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks. Kemper, S. & Thissen, D. (1981). Memory for the dimensions of requests. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 20, 552-563. Kemper, S. & Thissen, D. (1981). How polite? A reply to Clark and Schunk. Cognition, 9, 305-309. Himes, J.H., Roche, A.F. & Thissen, D. (1981). Parent-specific adjustments for assessment of recumbent length and stature. Monographs in Pediatrics, 13, Basel: Karger. Thissen, D. (1981). Review of Velleman, P. F. Applications, Basics, and Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis. Psychometrika, 46, 475-476. Thissen, D. & Martin, E. (1982). Reputed band attractiveness and sex manipulation in Zebra Finches. (Technical Comment), Science, 215, 423. Thissen, D. (1982). Marginal maximum likelihood estimation for the one-parameter logistic model. Psychometrika, 47, 175-186. Thissen, D. & Wainer, H. (1982). Some standard errors in item response theory. Psychometrika, 47, 397-412. Denney, N.W. & Thissen, D. (1983). Determinants of cognitive abilities in the elderly. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 16, 29-41. Thissen, D., Steinberg, L., Pyszczynski, T. & Greenberg, J. (1983). An item response theory for personality and attitude scales: Item analysis using restricted factor analysis. Applied Psychological Measurement, 7, 211-226. Thissen, D. (1983). Timed testing: An approach using item response theory. In D. Weiss (Ed.), New Horizons in Testing: Latent Trait Test Theory and Computerized Adaptive Testing. N.Y.: Academic Press, pp. 179-203. Thissen, D. & Wainer, H. (1983). Toward the measurement and prediction of victim proneness. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 20, 243-261. Bock, R.D. & Thissen, D. (1983). TRIFIT: A program for fitting and displaying triple logistic growth curves. Mooresville, Indiana: Scientific Software, Inc. Thissen, D. (1984). Review of Hulin, L.L., Drasgow, F. and Parsons, C.K. Item Response Theory: Application to Psychological Measurement. Applied Psychological Measurement, 8, 243-244. Thissen, D. & Steinberg, L. (1984). A response model for multiple choice items. Psychometrika, 49, 501-519. Himes, J., Roche, A.F., Thissen, D. & Moore, W. (1985). Parent-specific adjustments for evaluation of recumbent length and stature in children. Pediatrics, 75, 304-313. Thissen, D., Steinberg, L. & Gerrard, M. (1986). Beyond group mean differences: The concept
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