Brian French

Responsibilities:

The Evaluation Consultant will coordinate the Annual Staff Needs Assessment, conduct the evaluation of the National Training Workshop, and lead efforts to develop a set of core competencies for AgrAbility staff members.

Qualifications:

Brian French is professor of educational psychology at Washington State University and director of its psychometric laboratory and of the WSU Learning and Performance Research Center. His research focuses on educational and psychological measurement issues. The first area concerns the application of psychometric methods to gather score validity evidence for instruments. The second area, informed by the first, is the use of methodological studies to evaluate and improve methods in terms of efficiency and accuracy used to gather test score validity evidence. Dr. French teaches courses in measurement/psychometrics, statistics, research methods, and quantitative methods.