Contact Information |
Mailing Address |
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- Educational Measurement and Statistics
318 Lindquist Center
Iowa City, IA 52242
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Internet/Email: kathleen-banks@uiowa.edu
Telephone: 319/335-6422
Fax: 319/335-6038 |
| Office Hours: |
Monday & Wednesday 2:30 – 3:30 PM
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| Education |
- Phd, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004
- MS, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997
- BSE, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1994
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| Affiliations within the College |
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| Professional Experience |
- 8/06-Present Assistant Professor
- 8/04-6/06 Postdoctoral Research Scholar
- 8/01-8/04 Project Assistant
- 9/01-8/03 Instructor
- 8/98-6/01 Program Implementer, Acting Assistant Principal (8/00-6/01)
- 8/96-6/98 First Grade Teacher
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| Professional Activities and Memberships |
- American Educational Research Association
- National Council on Measurement in Education
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| Recent Publications |
- Banks, K. (2006). A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Hypotheses About Cultural Bias in Educational Testing. Applied Measurement in Education, 19(2), 115-132.
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| Research Interests |
- Item and test bias
- Test performance of different racial, cultural, and socioeconomic groups
- Differential item, bundle, and distractor functioning
- Reading and Language Arts testing
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| Courses typically taught |
- 7P:025 Elementary Statistics and Inference
- 7P:143 Introduction to Statistical Methods
- 7P:150 Introduction to Educational Measurement
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