Our staff:
Carolyn Grim Fidelman, Ph.D.
As a Research Scientist with the Center for Applied Linguistics, Dr. Fidelman provides quantitative and psychometric services in CAL’s Language Testing Division. She has assisted in the psychometric analyses, preparation of technical documentation and review of data techniques used in the Annual Technical Report of ACCESS for ELLs®. She has recently worked a Department of Defense language aptitude screener (Pre-DLAB) that will be administered to all military recruits in the near future and participated in an exploratory CAL/CASL/DoD project to measure high level language aptitude (Hi-LAB). She also assists the LTD and other Divisions at CAL by advising on research design and applying measurement and statistical research methods to problems in language testing as well as to empirical research in applied linguistics projects, programs and interventions. She specializes in Researcher Developed Instruments (RDIs) and survey development for sponsored projects. She is Co-PI of the Research Core for NICHD-funded Vocabulary Instruction and Assessment for Spanish Speakers (VIAS) research program.
Dr. Fidelman holds a B.A. in French from the University of Georgia, a M.Ed. in Foreign Language Education from the University of Georgia, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Interactive Technology, and a Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation from Boston College. She has conducted several evaluations for U. S. Department of Education sponsored projects. She was the Principal Investigator on two three-year U.S. Department of Education projects to develop and implement materials for the teaching of cross-cultural and nonverbal communication skills in French, Spanish and German.
Dr. Fidelman also teaches graduate-level courses in measurement at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Curriculum Vitae:
Carolyn Fidelman cv December 2009
Contact Information:
Dr. Carolyn Grim Fidelman
Agora Education Services
91 Baldwin St.
Boston, MA 02129-1423
cfidelman@edevaluator.org * 617-470-6352
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