Dr. Kathy Ellen Green

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University of Denver
College of Education
ProfessorAppointed: 1987

Mailing Address

University of Denver
Morgridge College of Education
Denver, Colorado 80208
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (303) 871-2490
Fax: (303) 871-2709
kgreen@du.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Washington, Measurement and Statistics, 1981.
M.Ed., University of Washington, Measurement and Statistics, 1977.
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Mathematics, 1974.

Expertise and Research Interests

My expertise is in psychometrics as it relates to survey research. This includes constructing and administering surveys and analyzing survey data. A second area of interest is in the teaching of statistics.

Foreign Interests:
New Zealand
Norway, Malaysia

Cross-Departmental Interests:
Psychometrics
Statistics
Survey research

Other Expertise

Business Experience:
Expert witness on testing, Jefferson County and Denver County

Future Research

I am interested in data quality as it relates to survey research,psychometrics, and program evaluation.

Industrial Relevance

Surveys and measures are used in business, medicine, pharmacology, law, so analysis of data resulting in high quality measures is relevant to many areas.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Educational Evaluation Or Assessment, Educational Modes Or Psychology Or Theory, Educational Psychology, Educational Testing Or Measurement, Psychometrics, Statistics, Surveys and Survey Research, Teacher Attitude, Teacher Education.

Additional Terms:

Educational Evaluation and Assessment, Instrument Construction, Item Response Theory, Program Evaluation, Psychometry, Rasch Model, Survey and Survey Research.

Memberships

American Association of Public Opinion Research
American Educational Research Association
American Evaluation Association
National Council on Measurement in Education

Honors and Awards

2002, Fulbright Award, United States
1984, Alumni Association Faculty Development Award, University of Wyoming
1981, Arthur A. Denny Award, University of Washington

Previous Positions

1983-1987, Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
1981-1983, Postdoctoral Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington

Publications

  • Cox, E. O. (2007) Strengthening the Late-Life Care Process: Effects of Two Forms of a Care-Receiver Efficacy Intervention, Gerontologist, 47
  • Cox, E. O., Green, K. E., Seo, H., Inaba, M., Alylla Quillen, A. (2006) Coping with Late-Life Challenges: Development and Validation of the Care-Receiver Efficacy Scale, Gerontologist, 46, 640-649
  • Frantom, C.G, Green, K.E., Item grouping effects on invariance of attitude items, Journal of Applied Measurement, 26, 249-263, 2002
  • Green, K.E., Psychosocial factors affecting dissertation completion, New Directions for Higher Education, 57-64, 1997
  • Green, K.E., Survey data quality, New Directions in Program Evaluation, 70, 81-92, 1996
  • Green, K.E., Dimensional analyses of complex data, Structural Equation Modeling, 3, 50-61, 1996
  • Green, K.E., Sociodemographic factors and mail survey response, Psychology and Marketing, 13, 171-184, 1995
  • Green, K.E, Kluever, R.C., Components of item difficulty of Raven's matrices, Journal of General Psychology, 119, 189-199, 1992
  • Green, K.E, Smith, R.M., A comparison of two methods of decomposing item difficulties, Journal of Educational Statistics, 12, 369-381, 1987
  • Green, K.E., Fundamental measurement: A review and application of additive conjoint measurement in educational testing, Journal of Experimental Education, 19, 141-147, 1986

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Last Updated: 5/3/2009

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