The Department of Teaching and Learning

Gale Harold Roid, Ph.D.
Professor

Dr. Roid is Professor of Education specializing in assessment and test development in the School of Education & Human Development.  He was formerly Dunn Professor of Educational and Psychological Assessment, Department of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He is author of several well-known tests including the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (2003), the Progress Monitoring Version of the Wide Range Achievement Test (4^th Ed.), and three published tests that assess preschool children (the Leiter-R, Merrill-Palmer, and the Toddler and Infant Motor Assessment).

Dr. Roid has conducted more than 70 training workshops on assessment for school districts and State or National conferences. Dr. Roid has extensive experience with assessment and evaluation in K-12 schools and with research on item writing and criterion-referenced assessment. He was previously Technical Advisor or Consultant for the Oregon Statewide Assessment Program (the system of school achievement tests used throughout public schools in Oregon), Department of Education, State of Oregon. He conducted workshops for teachers on mathematics assessment, organized standards-setting panels, and conducted IRT scaling research. 

He is a recipient or consultant to several federal grants as well as the author of 7 published tests, 9 books, 30 chapters and research articles in professional journals, and more than 60 presentations at professional conferences. He is a Fellow of Division 5 (Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics) of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Roid earned his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. He teaches assessment, measurement, research design, and other methods courses at SMU.

Recent and Major Publications

Tindal, G., Roid, G. H.,  Ketterlin-Geller, L. R., & Alonzo, J. (in review) System of Benchmark and Progress Monitoring Tests for K-8 Reading and Mathematics.

Roid, G. H. (2008, accepted for publication) Chapters on the Leiter-R and on the SB5.. In J. Naglieri & S. Goldstein, A Practitioner’s Guide to Assessment of Intelligence & Achievement, New York: Wiley.

Roid, G.H., & Ledbetter, M. (2006). Wide Range Achievement Test, Fourth Edition—Progress Monitoring Version. Tampa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.

Roid, G. H. (2006) Developing ability tests. Chapter in S. Downing & T. Haladyna, Handbook of Test Development,  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Roid, G. H. (2005). Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale for Early childhood—5^th Edition. Itasca, IL: Riverside.

Roid, G.H., & Barram, R.A. (2004). Essentials of Stanford-Binet Assessment.  New York: Wiley

Roid, G.H., & Sampers, J. (2004). Merrill-Palmer—Revised Scales of Development. Wood Dale, IL: Stoelting.

Roid, G.H., & Pomplun, M. (2004). Interpretive strategies for the Stanford-Binet 5^th Ed.. In D. Flanagan & P. Harrison, Contemporary intellectual assessment (2^nd Ed.), New York: Guilford. (pp. 325-343)

Roid, G.H. (2003). Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale—5^th Edition. Itasca, IL: Riverside [Test battery, Examiners Manual,  Technical Manual, Scoring Pro software, and Interpretive Manual]

Roid, G.H., & Woodcock, R.W. (2000). Uses of Rasch scaling in the measurement of cognitive development and growth.  Journal of Outcome Measurement, 4(2), 579-594.

Gridley, B., & Roid, G.H. (1998). WISC-III and achievement tests. In D. Saklofske & A. Prifitera, WISC-III: A scientist-Practioner perspective.  Orlando, FL: Academic Press.

Roid, G.H., & Miller, L.J. (1997). Leiter International Perfor­mance Scale--Revised. Wood Dale, IL: Stoelting. [Test battery, Manual, and computer scoring software].

Miller, L.J., & Roid, G.H. (1994). The T.I.M.E. Toddler and Infant Motor Evaluation: A standardized instrument.  San Antonio, TX: Harcourt-Brace/The Psychological Corporation.

Roid, G.H., & Worrall, W. (1997). Replication of the WISC-III four-factor model in the Canadian normative sample.Psychological Assessment, 9 (4), 512-515.

Roid, G.H. (1994). Patterns of writing skills derived from cluster analysis. Applied Measurement in Education, 7, 159‑170.

Roid, G.H. (1989). Item writing and item banking by microcom­puter.  Educational Measurement, 8 (3), 17‑20.

Haladyna, T.M., & Roid, G.H. (1983). A comparison of two ap­proaches to criterion‑referenced test construction. Journal of Educational Measurement, 20, 271‑282.

Roid, G.H., & Haladyna,T.M. (1982). A technology of test‑item writing. New York: Academic Press.

Roid, G.H., & Haladyna, T.M. (1980). The emergence of a technol­ogy of item writing. Review of Educational Research, 50, 293‑314. 

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