Stephen G. Sireci, Ph.D., is Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Educational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He joined The Gallup Organization as a Senior Scientist in 2003.
Sireci's main involvement with Gallup has been in applying statistical models to the evaluation of the translations of Gallup's employee engagement surveys. With Gallup associates, he has conducted analyses of differential item functioning across multi-language versions of Gallup instruments as well as analysis of the structural equivalence of the instruments across languages. He has also contributed his expertise to the structure and scoring of the Clifton StrengthsFinder, an online assessment that measures a person's talents in 34 categories, referred to as "themes," and reveals the user's top five themes.
Sireci is the author of more than 100 publications and conference papers and is frequently invited to conduct workshops at national and international conferences. His research has been published in several professional journals, including Applied Measurement in Education, Applied Psychological Measurement, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Journal of Educational Measurement, and Multivariate Behavioral Research. Sireci also serves on the editorial board of several journals and has acted as a manuscript reviewer for more than 15 journals.
Sireci earned his doctorate in psychology with an emphasis on psychometrics from Fordham University in Bronx, New York. A member and/or chair of more than 18 professional groups, he is President-Elect of the Northeastern Educational Research Association and a member of the Board of Directors for the National Council on Measurement in Education. Recently, he was awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award at the School of Education, University of Massachusetts.
