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Chris Coleman

Dr. Chris Coleman is the Associate Director of Institutional Effectiveness at the University of Alabama (UA) and the lead architect of UA’s meta-assessment process, which fosters high-quality assessment across both educational programs and support/administrative units. He completed his doctorate in Assessment and Measurement at James Madison University, where his dissertation focused on the psychometric consequences of using negative wording and keying in survey items. A trained SACSCOC IE Reviewer, Dr. Coleman previously designed and managed a variety of assessment and evaluation projects at Babson College and the University of Georgia. Dr. Coleman’s publications include journal articles and book chapters on the assessment of student learning outcomes, the validity of standardized psychoeducational tests, and the diagnosis of reading and writing disorders in the adult population. He is also a reviewer for several journals, including Research & Practice in Assessment. In a previous century, he taught English in the US, the Czech Republic, and Greece.