Derek Briggs

University of Colorado Boulder

Professor

Derek Briggs is a professor in the Research and Evaluation Methodology program where he also directs the Center for Assessment Design Research and Evaluation. Dr. Briggs’s research focuses upon advancing methods for the measurement and evaluation of student learning. His daily agenda is to challenge conventional wisdom and methodological chicanery as they manifest themselves in educational research, policy and practice. As a psychometrician, Dr. Briggs works with states and other entities to provide technical advice on the design and use of large-scale student assessments. He has a special interest in the use of learning progressions as a method for facilitating student-level inferences about growth, and helping to bridge the use of test scores for formative and summative purposes. Other interests include the use and analysis of statistical models to support causal inferences about the effects of educational interventions on student achievement.