Psychometric Society Past Presidents

Term	Name	Institution	Presidential Address
2006-07	Roger S. Millsap	Arizona State University	Invariance in measurement and prediction revisited
2005-06	Ulf Böckenholt	McGill University	Thurstonian-Based Analyses: Past, Present and Future Utilities
2004-05	Robert Cudeck	University of Minnesota	Fitting Psychometric Models Using Gradient Methods and Automatic Derivatives
2003-04	Willem J. Heiser	Leiden University	Geometric Representation Of Association Between Categories
2002-03	Jacqueline J. Meulman	Leiden University	Prediction and Classification in Nonlinear Data Analysis: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
2001-02	William Stout	University Of Illinois & Educational Testing Service	Psychometrics: From Practice To Theory And Back: 15 Years Of Nonparametric Multidimensional IRT, DIF/Test Equity, and Skills Diagnostic Assessment
2000-01	David Thissen	University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Psychometric Engineering as Art
1999-00	Wim J. van der Linden	University of Twente	A test-theoretic approach to observed-score equating
1998-99	Susan E. Embretson	Universtity of Kansas	Generating Items During Testing: Psychometric Issues and Models
1997-98	Ivo Molenaar	University of Groningen	Data, Model, Conclusion, Doing it Again
1996-97	Fumiko Samejima	University of Tennessee	Departure from Normal Assumptions: A promise for future psychometrics with substantive methematical modeling
1995-96	Shizuhiko Nishisato	Ontario Institute for Studies in Education & The University of Toronto	Gleaning in the Field of Dual Scaling
1994-95	Gerhard H. Fischer	University of Vienna	Some Neglected Problems in IRT.
1993-94	Robert J. Mislevy	Educational Testing Service	Evidence and inference in educational assessment.
1992-93	William Meredith	University of California at Berkeley	Measurement invariance, factor analysis and factorial invariance
1991-92	Michael W. Browne	Ohio State University	Circumplex models for correlation matrices
1990-91	Phipps Arabie	Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University	Was Euclid an Unnecessarily Sophisticated Psychologist?
1989-90	Paul W. Holland	Educational Testing Service	On the sampling theory foundations of item response theory models
1988-89	Bengt O. Muthen	University of California, Los Angeles	Latent variable modeling in heterogeneous populations
1987-88	Jan de Leeuw	University of California, Los Angeles	Multivariate analysis with linearizable regressions.
1986-87	Yoshio Takane	McGill University	Analysis of contingency tables by ideal point discriminant analysis.
1985-86	Roderick P. McDonald	Macquarie University	Describing the elephant: Structure and function in Multivariate data.
1984-85	Bruce Bloxom	Vanderbiit University	Considerations in Psychometric Modeling of Response Time.
1983-84	Lawrence J. Hubert	The University of California, Santa Barbara	Statistical Applications of Linear Assignment.
1982-83	Peter M. Bentler	University of California, Los Angeles	Some contributions to efficient statistics in structural models: specification and estimation of moment structures.
1981-82	James O. Ramsay	McGill University	When the Data are Functions
1980-81	Forrest W. Young	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Data.
1979-80	Melvin R. Novick	University of Iowa	Statistics as Pscyhometrics
1978-79	Norman Cliff	University of Southern California at Los Angeles	Test Theory Without True Scores?
1977-78	Karl G. Jöreskog	University of Uppsala	Structural Analysis of Covariance and Correlation Matrices.
1976-77	R. Duncan Luce	Harvard University	Thurstone’s Discriminal Processes Fifty Years Later.
1975-76	J. Douglas Carroll	Bell Laboratories	Spatial, non-spatial and hybrid models for scaling.
1974-75	Joseph B. Kruskal	Bell Telephone Laboratories	Some advances in parametric mapping
1973-74	Roger N. Shepard	Stanford University	Representation of structure in similarity data: Problems and prospects.
1972-73	R. Darrell Bock	University of Chicago	Word and image: Sources of the verbal and spatial factors in mental test scores.
1971-72	Samuel J. Messick	Educational Testing Service	Beyond structure: In search of functional models of psychological process
1970-71	Louis Guttman	Hebrew University and Israel Institute of Applied Social Research	Measurement as structural theory
1969-70	Henry F. Kaiser	University of California, Berkeley	A second generation little jiffy.
1968-69	Harry H. Harman	Educational Testing Service	Retrospective anticipation.
1967-68	B. J. Winer	Perdue University	The error
1966-67	Chester W. Harris	University of Wisconsin	On factors and factor scores.
1965-66	Bert F. Green, Jr.	Carnegie Institute of Technology	The computer revolution in psychometrics.
1964-65	Warren S. Torgerson	The Johns Hopkins University	Multidimensional Scaling Of Similarity
1963-64	Allen L. Edwards	University of Washington	Social desirability and performance on the MMPI
1962-63	Lyle V. Jones	University of North Carolina	Beyond Babbage
1961-62	Philip H. Dubois	Washington University, St. Louis	On Relationships Between Numbers and Behavior
1960-61	John B. Carroll	Harvard University	The Nature of the Data, or How to Choose a Correlation Coefficient
1959-60	Lloyd G. Humphreys	University of Illinois	Investigations of the Simplex
1958-59	Frederic M. Lord	Educational Testing Service	An Approach to Mental Test Theory
1957-58	Frederick Mosteller	Harvard University	The Mystery of the Missing Corpus
1956-57	Hubert E. Brogden	The Adjutant General's Office	New Problems for Old Solutions
1955-56	Clyde H. Coombs	University Of Michigan	The Scale Grid: Some Interrelations of Data Models
1954-55	Ledyard R. Tucker	Princeton University and Educational Testing Service	Psychometric Theory: General and Specific
1953-54	Lee J. Cronbach	University Of Illinois	Report on a Psychometric Mission to Clinicia
1952-53	Robert L. Thorndike	Teachers College, Columbia University	Who Belongs in the Family?
1951-52	John C. Flanagan	University Of Pittsburgh	Methodology in Psychology
1950-51	Quinn McNemar	Stanford University	The Factors in Factoring Behavior
1949-50	Dorothy C. Adkins	The University Of North Carolina	A Superior Rotational Method in Factor Analysis or Psychometricians in Government Service
1948-49	Phillip Justin Rulon	Harvard University	Matrix Representation Of Models For The Analysis Of Variance And Covariance
1947-48	Irving Lorge	Columbia University
1946-47	Harold A. Edgerton	Ohio State University
1945-46	Edward E. Cureton	The Adjutant General's Office
1944-45	Harold Gulliksen	University of Chicago
1943-44	Henry E. Garrett	Columbia University
1941-43	Paul Horst	Proctor and Gamble
1940-41	Jack W. Dunlap	University of Rochester
1939-40	Karl J. Holzinger	University of Chicago
1938-39	Truman L. Kelley	Harvard University
1937-38	J. P. Guilford	University of Nebraska
1936-37	E. L. Thorndike	Columbia University
1935-36	L. L. Thurstone	University of Chicago