About

Craig Wells is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Research, Educational Measurement, and Psychometrics concentration where he also serves as Associate Director in the Center for Educational Assessment. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2004 in Quantitative Methods in Educational Psychology. Craig teaches courses in educational statistics and psychometric theory. His primary research interests include the applications of item response theory (IRT) to educational and psychological data, specifically related to the assessment of model fit, detection of differential item functioning, and applications of nonparametric IRT. Craig also has a keen interest in philosophy of science, range-null hypothesis testing, and its applications to epistemology. He published Assessing Measurement Invariance for Applied Research (2021) and co-edited Educational Measurement: From Foundations to Future (2016). He served as president of the Northeastern Educational Research Association in 2017 and is an active member of the National Council on Measurement in Education.