Carnegie Scholar to Speak on Educational Achievement Gaps Among Minorities

Lloyd Bond, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will give a lecture on “Understanding the Racial Achievement Gap” on April 23 at 5 p.m. in Boliou Hall, room 104. His lecture is free and open to the public.

Bond serves as a consulting scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Stanford and is a Professor of Education, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. From 2002 to 2008 he was a Senior Scholar at Carnegie working in the area of assessment across several Carnegie Foundation programs.

Bond has published widely in the area of assessment and testing and has made fundamental contributions to the literature on test bias and cognitive process underlying test performance. He has held editorial positions on the leading journals in educational and psychological measurement and serves on numerous commissions and panels devoted to testing and testing policy. He is currently a member of the Data Analysis Committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Psychometric Panel of the College Board.

A fellow of both The American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Professor Bond is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Citation from AERA for Career Contributions to Measurement and Assessment.

Bond obtained the PhD in Psychology (1976) from the Johns Hopkins University, specializing in psychometrics and quantitative methods. He taught test theory and psychometrics at the University of Pittsburgh from 1976 to 1988, and at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, from 1988 to 2002.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Economics. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4109.