Associate Professor, Measurement and Evaluation – University of Alabama
As part of the SUGRS, Dr. Wind helps to coordinate graduate student mentoring opportunities, including the CV exchange session.
Stefanie A. Wind, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Measurement at the University of Alabama, where she teaches graduate courses related to research methodology, measurement and psychometrics, and statistics. Her primary research interests include the exploration of methodological issues in the field of educational measurement, with emphases on methods related to rater-mediated assessments, rating scales, latent trait models (i.e., Rasch models and item response theory models), and nonparametric item response theory, as well as applications of these methods to substantive areas related to education. Her collaborative research activities also include a variety of scale development and validation projects, including scales to measure constructs related to affective variables (e.g., empathy, perceptions of instructional quality, perceptions of power dynamics), student achievement in a variety of domains (e.g., science, mathematics, writing), among others.
Dr. Wind has published her research in methodological journals in the field of educational measurement (e.g., Journal of Educational Measurement, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Educational and Psychological Measurement) as well as applied journals (e.g., Language Testing, Assessing Writing, Science Education, Studies in Educational Evaluation). In 2023, she published Exploring Rating Scale Functioning for Survey Research as part of the Sage Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences “Little Green Books” series. She has also co-authored three other books related to measurement theory. She has received awards for her research, including the Alicia Cascallar early career scholar award from the National Council on Measurement in Education, the Exemplary Paper Award from the Classroom Observation SIG of AERA (2017), and the Georg William Rasch Early Career Scholar award from the Rasch SIG of AERA (2015).