Mark Wilson
University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished Professor
Year Elected
2011
Membership status
Regular
Mark Wilson is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and also a Professor at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD degree from the University of Chicago in 1984. His interests focus on measurement and applied statistics, and he has published 171 refereed articles in those areas, 76 invited chapters in edited books, and 17 books. He was elected President of the Psychometric Society, and, more recently, President of the National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME); he is a Member of the US National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, and the American Psychological Association, and also is a National Associate of the US National Research Council. He is Director of the Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center. His research interests focus on the development and application of sound approaches for measurement in education and the social sciences, the development of statistical models suitable for measurement contexts, the creation of instruments to measure new constructs, and scholarship on the philosophy of measurement.