Dr. Barbara M. Byrne: Recipient of the 2002 Division 5 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring

Dr. Barbara M. Byrne (Ph.D., 1982, University of Ottawa) is Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Substantively, Dr. Byrne's research focuses on construct validation issues related to the structure and measurement of self-concept, burnout, and depression. Methodologically, her research centers on the sound application of structural equation modeling (SEM) in the validation of measuring instruments and psychological constructs. She has conducted 35 workshops, both nationally and internationally, related to the application of SEM, and is the author of four popular introductory books on the topic. In addition to the publication of over 80 articles, Dr Byrne is the author of an important reference book, Measuring Self-concept Across the Lifespan: Issues and Instrumentation (1996). She is the 1995 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award presented by the Canadian Psychological Association and the 2002 recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training Award to be presented by the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Byrne is a Fellow in APA, a Foundation member on the International Board of the SELF Research Centre, Australia, and an elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. She currently serves as a member of the APA Continuing Professional Education Committee, and is Treasurer for the International Test Commission.

Dr. Robert Rosenthal: Recipient of the 2002 Division 5 Samuel J. Messick Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions

Dr. Robert Rosenthal (Ph.D., 1956, University of California, Los Angeles) is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Riverside and the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Harvard University. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a Fulbright Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Donald Campbell Award, and the Chair of the APA Board of Scientific Affairs Task Force on Statistical Inference. Dr. Rosenthal’s research achievements in quantitative methodology and interpersonal expectations are legendary, including over 400 published articles and 29 co-authored books. He has studied sources of artifact in behavioral research and in various quantitative and data analytic procedures. His special interests are in experimental design and analysis, contrast analysis, ethics, and meta-analysis. In addition, for over 40 years Dr. Rosenthal has been fascinated by the psychology of interpersonal expectations -- the idea that one person’s expectation for the behavior of another can come to serve as self-fulfilling prophecy. His experiments, conducted in laboratories and in the field, show that when teachers have been led to expect better intellectual performance from their students, they tend to get it. These effects generalize to coaches expecting and getting better athletic performance from their athletes and behavioral researchers expecting and getting certain responses from their research participants. His interests in nonverbal communication emerged from trying to understand mediating mechanisms for interpersonal expectations. When people expect more of those with whom they come in contact, they treat them differently nonverbally. Most recently, he has studied "thin slices" of nonverbal behavior -- silent videos or tone-of-voice clips of about 30 seconds. With "thin slices" he can predict student end-of-term ratings from instructor behavior, likelihood of patient suits from physician behavior, and jury verdicts from judge behavior.

Dr. Zuru Du: Co-Recipient of the 2002 Division 5 Distinguished Dissertation Award

Dr. Zuru Du (Ph.D., 1998, Columbia University) is a Research Scientist and Assistant Director of Statistics and Scoring Services at Professional Examination Service. He received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Hunan College of Education, a MA degree in Applied Linguistics from Hunan University, and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics program at Columbia University (1998; advisor: Dr. H. Jane Rogers). Dr. Du conducted research at the Division of Statistical and Psychometric Research in Educational Testing Service with predoctoral (1997) and postdoctoral (1998) fellowships. He also taught and conducted research at Hunan University for five years. Dr. Du has also received the American Educational Research Association Division D Mary Catherine Ellwein Outstanding Dissertation Award. His dissertation research, Modeling conditional item dependencies with a three-parameter logistic testlet model, is summarized in Computerized Adaptive Testing: Theory and Practice (Van der Linden & Glas, Eds.).

Dr. Albert Maydeu-Olivares: Co-Recipient of the 2002 Division 5 Distinguished Dissertation Award

Dr. Albert Maydeu-Olivares (Ph.D., 1997, University of Illinois) graduated in Psychology from the University of Barcelona (1987; Fulbright Scholarship, 1989). He earned his Ph.D. in quantitative psychology (advisor: Dr. Ulf Böckenholt) and M.S. degrees (Applied Psychological Measurement, 1991; Statistics, 1997) from Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Clinical/Personality Psychology from the University of Barcelona (1991). He was an assistant professor in Statistics at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (1995) and associate professor of Psychology at the University of Barcelona (1997). He has held visiting appointments at Michigan (1998) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1998-2001). Currently, he is professor of Marketing at Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. Dr. Maydeu-Olivares’ dissertation is entitled Structural Equation Modeling of Binary Preference Data.