Alina von Davier

Alina Anca von Davier (born September 11, 1967) is a psychometrician and researcher in computational psychometrics, machine learning, and education. Von Davier serves on the technical advisory board member for Duolingo and on the board of directors of Smart Sparrow. She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University.

Education

She completed a M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1990. In 2000, she earned a doctorate in mathematics from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

Career

Von Davier was the Chair of the Editorial Council of the Psychometric Society, and is currently an associate editor for Psychometrika and has served as guest editor for both Applied Psychological Measurement and the Journal of Educational Measurement.

Von Davier currently sits on the global board of directors for the Association of Test Publishers and is the president of the International Association of Computerized Adaptive Testing.

Two publications, Computerized Multistage Testing: Theory and Applications (2014) and an edited volume on test equating, Statistical Models for Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking (2011) were selected as the winners of the Division D Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award presented by the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Selected works

Books and edited volumes

• von Davier, A.A. (2017). Measurement issues in collaborative learning and assessment. [Special Issue]. Journal of Educational Measurement, 54(1).
• von Davier, A.A., Zhu, M., and Kyllonen, P.C. (2017). Innovative Assessment of Collaboration. Springer International Publishing.
• Yan, D., von Davier, A. A., and Lewis, C. (Eds.) (2014). Computerized multistage testing: Theory and applications. London, UK: Chapman & Hall.
• Mislevy, R. J., Corrigan, S., Oranje, A., Dicerbo, K., John, M., Bauer, M. I., Hoffman, E., von Davier, A. A., and Hao, J. (2014), Psychometrics and game-based assessments. Institute of Play.
• von Davier, A. A. (Ed.) (2011). Statistical models for test equating, scaling and linking. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
• von Davier, A. A., and Liu, M. (Eds.) (2008). Population Invariance of Test Equating and Linking: Theory Extension and Applications Across Exams [Special Issue]. Applied Psychological Measurement, 32(1).
• von Davier, A. A., Holland, P. W., and Thayer, D. T. (2004). The kernel method of test equating. New York, NY: Springer Verlag.
• von Davier, A. A. (2001). Testing unconfoundedness in regression models with normally distributed regressors [Dissertation]. Aachen, Germany: Shaker Verlag.