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Richard Gershon, PhD Associate Professor, Vice Chair for Research Dr. Gershon is a leading expert in the application of Item Response Theory (IRT) in individualized and large scale assessments. He has developed item banks and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) for educational, clinical, and health applications - including cognitive, emotional, and motor applications. He is currently principal investigator on three projects with the NIH - Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological Function and Behavior, the NIH Roadmap Patient – Reporting Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Technical Center and the National Institutes on Aging Genetic Norming project. He is also co-investigator and measurement development expert on numerous smaller projects including: NINDS sponsored project “Quality of Life Outcomes in Neurological Disorders” (Neuro-QoL), and the cancer-specific supplement to PROMIS. Selected Publications Gershon, R. C. (1992). “Test Anxiety and Item Order: New Concerns for Item Response Theory”. In M. Wilson (Ed.), Objective Measurement: Theory to Practice. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Bergstrom, B. A., & Gershon, R. C. (1994). Computerized adaptive testing for licensure and certification. CLEAR Exam Review (Winter, 1994): 25-27. Gershon, R. C. (1998). Web-enhanced testing. Popular Measurement, (Spring, 1998): 38-39. Chicago, IL: Institute for Objective Measurement. Stah, J., Bergstrom. B. & Gershon, R. (2000). CAT administration of language placement examinations. Journal of Applied Measurement, Vol 1(3): 292-303. Gershon, R.C., Cella, D., Dineen, K., Rosenbloom, S., Peterman, A. and Lai, J.S. (2003). Item response theory and health-related quality of life in cancer. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Research, 3(6): 783-791. Lai-J-S., Cella, D., Dineen, K., Von Roenn, J., Gershon, R. (2005). An item bank was created to improve measurement of cancer-related fatigue. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 58(2): 190-197. Gershon, R.C. (2005). Computerized Adaptive Testing. [Review] [55 refs]. Journal of Applied Measurement, Vol. 6(1): 109-27. Gershon, R.C., and Bergstrom, B.A. (2006). "Computerized Adaptive Testing". Chapter 8, In: Terry M. Wood & Weimo Zhu, Eds., Measurement Theory and Practice in Kinesiology. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 440 pp. [ISBN: 0736045301] Reeve, B.B., Hays, R.D., Bjorner, J.B., Cook, K.F., Crane, P.K., Teresi, J.A., Thissen, D., Revicki, D.A., Weiss, D.J., Hambelton, R.K., Liu, H., Gershon, R., Reise, S.P., Cella, D., on behalf of the PROMIS Cooperative Group. (2007). Psychometric evaluation and calibration of health-related quality of life items banks: Plans for the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS). Medical Care, Vol. 45(5) (Suppl 1): S22-S31. Heinemann, A., Fisher, W., Gershon, R. (2008). Improving Health Care Quality with Outcomes Management. The Academy Today, Vol. 4 (4) A5-A9. Gershon, R.C. Cella, D., Fox, N.A., Havlik, R.J., Hendrie, H.C., Wagster, M.V. (2010) Assessment of neurological and behavioural function: the NIH Toolbox. Lancet Neruology, 9(2): 9-11. Gershon, R., Hanrahan, R., Rothrock, N., Jansky, E., Riley, W. (2010) The development of a clinical outcomes survey research application: Assessment Center. Journal of Applied Measurement, 11(3), 304-314. Gershon, R. C., & Cook, K. (2011). Use of Computer Adaptive Testing in the Development of Machine Learning Algorithms. Pain Medicine, 12(10), 1450-1452. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01235.x |
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