SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Education

1973 Ph.D. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1971 MS Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1968 BS Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Professional Experience

2001-2001 Director of MBA Programs. Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University

2000 Visiting Scholar. Educational testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

1982-2001 Associate Professor of Applied Statistics. Faculty of Management, Rutgers University

1979-1982 Research Scientist. Division of Measurement, Statistics, and Data Analysis Research Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ

1973-1978 Assistant Professor. Department of Applied and Mathematical Statistic, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Recent Service Assignments

1993-1998 Chair. MBA Policy Committee, Faculty of Management

1993-1994 Chair. Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business.

Expertise and Recent Consulting Assignments

Quality Control, Regression Analysis, Data Analysis, Categorical Data Analysis, Bayesian Data Analysis, Multivariate Data Analysis, Generalized Linear Models, Robust and Nonparametric Methods, Nonlinear Optimal Design, and Item Response Theory.

1995-2000 Law School Admissions Council, Newtown, PA.

• Development of Automated Test Assembly System using network flow mathematical programming algorithms.
• Development of advanced item calibration techniques using MCMC methods.
• Development of optimal online item calibration sampling techniques using experimental design theory.

1996-1999 United States Golf Association, Fairless Hills, NJ.

• Development of DataMining Systems and Database of historical professional golfing performances equipment, including driving and putting.

1996 American College Testing Program Iowa City, IA.

• Development of Computerized Item Selection Program to Accommodate IRT Parameters and Multiple Appearance Items for the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (FE). With R. Armstrong.

1995 GLDO, Prudential Parsipanny. NJ

• Continuance Models for Disability Products..

1994 American College Testing Program Iowa City, IA.

• Feasibility Study for Automated Test Construction. With R. Armstrong.

1992-1993 Attorney General, State of New Jersey Newark, NJ

• Angoff's Index B for Detecting Misappropriate Test Taking Behavior in the Certification Examination for Entry Level Respiratory Therapy Practitioners (CRRT).

Major Grants

Co-Principal Investigator. Incorporating Network-Flow Mathematical Programming to Create a LSAC B-CAT System. Law School Admissions Council 1996

Principal Investigator. Optimal Designs for On-Line Calibration of Item Response Theory Models. Office of Naval Research. 1987-1990

Principal Investigator. Robustness Theory for Item Response Theory. Office of Naval Research. 1983-1986

Recent Publications

Armstrong, R.D. & Jones, D.H. (1997). APM special issue on optimal test design: Test theory applications of network-flow programming. Apld. Psych.. Meas., 20 pp.

Armstrong, R.D., Jones, D.H., Li, X., & Wu, I-L. (1996). A study of a network-flow algorithm and a non-correcting algorithm for test assembly. Apld. Psych.. Meas.,, 18 pp.

Armstrong, R.D., Jones, D.H., & Wang, Z. (1996). Optimization of classical reliability in test construction. J. of Ed. and Behav.. Stat.

Jones, D.H., Chiang, J., & Jin, Z. (1996). Optimal designs for simultaneous item estimation. To appear Proc. of The Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Athens, Greece.

Jones, D.H. & Jin, Z. (1994). Optimal sequential designs for on-line item estimation. Psychometrika, 59, 57-75.

Armstrong, R.D., Jones, D.H., & Wu, I-L. (1992). An automated procedure for test development of tests parallel to a seed test. Psychometrika, 57, 256-271.

Armstrong, R D., Jones, D H., & Wang, Z. (1995). Network procedures to optimize test information curves with side constraints. In K. D. Lawrence (ed.), Vol. 8, Applications of Management Science, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press Inc., pp. 189-212.