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portraitTzur M. Karelitz
Education Researcher
BEAR

Office: BEAR Center
Phone: 617-462-2894
Email: tmk@berkeley.edu
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T
zur Karelitz is interested in the ways in which measurement supports and improves educational systems and in the integration of assessment and instruction in classrooms.

He is particularly interested in how novel measurement models can be applied to embedded and formative assessments. Specifically, his research involves developing and studying cognitively diagnostic assessment models.

In the BEAR center, he has been working on designing and validating the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP), a birth-through-thirteen assessment system of social, emotional, cognitive, physical and behavioral development. In addition, he is taking part in collaborative work with Vanderbilt University. Their work involves developing an embedded assessment for an inventive, hands-on science and math curriculum for data-modeling and statistics in middle schools.

Currently, he lives in Boston and is teaching courses on assessment at Boston College.



Degrees
2004- PhD, Department of Psychology, Division of Quantitative Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Champaign, IL.
2003- MS, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Champaign, IL.
2001- MA, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Champaign, IL.
1998- BA, University of Tel-Aviv, Ramat-Aviv, Israel (Psychology & Business Management).

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Areas of Specialization / Interests
Assessment and Educational Measurement
Cognitive Development
Computer-Mediated Learning
Educational Statistics
Information Technology
Learning
Mathematics Education
Psychometrics
Quantitative Methods
Research Methods
Science Education
Testing

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Last Modified: 11/15/06