Edward Haertel

Stanford University

Jacks Family Professor of Education, Emeritus

Edward Haertel is the Jacks Family Professor of Education, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His research and teaching focused on quantitative research methods, psychometrics, and educational policy, especially test-based accountability and the use of test data for educational program evaluation. Haertel's early work investigated the use of latent class models for item response data. His later research projects included studies of standard setting and standards-based score interpretations, statistical properties of test-based accountability systems, metric-free measures of score gaps and trends, and examination of value-added models for teacher evaluation from a psychometric perspective. Haertel served as president of the National Council on Measurement in Education (1998-99), chaired the Technical Advisory Committee concerned with the design and evolution of California's test-based school accountability system (2003-15), chaired the National Research Council's Board on Testing and Assessment (2008-14), and served on the National Assessment Governing Board (1997-2003).