Professor George Engelhard, Jr., Ph.D., is a Faculty Member at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Professor Engelhard has published three books, is the co-editor of four edited books, and is the author or co-author of over 175 journal articles, book chapters, and monographs. He serves on several national technical advisory committees on educational measurement and policy including in Georgia and New Jersey. In 2015, he received the first Qiyas Award for Excellence in International Educational Assessment recognizing his contributions to the field of education based on his book (Invariant measurement: Using Rasch models in the social, behavioral, and health sciences), as well as his program of research that focuses on the improvement of educational measurement at the local, national, and international levels. He is an elected fellow of the American Educational Research Association. He is currently the president of the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Society (PROMS). Professor Engelhard recently published a book with Dr. Jue Wang (University of Science and Technology of China) titled Rasch models for solving measurement problems: Invariant measurement in the social sciences. He is currently working on a new book with Stephanie Wind (The University of Alabama) titled Invariant Measurement with Explanatory Rasch Models in the Human Sciences.
