Founder of the Nonpartisan Education Group and editor of its peer-reviewed journal, the Nonpartisan Education Review (http://nonpartisaneducation.org), a Fulbright Scholar, and a fellow of the Psychophysics Laboratory. He has authored, or edited and authored, four books on assessment policy -Correcting Fallacies about Educational and Psychological Testing (APA); Standardized Testing Primer (Peter Lang); Defending Standardized Testing (Psychology Press); and Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing (Transaction)– and several statistical compendia. Phelps has held positions with several organizations working in assessment, including ACT, AIR, ETS, the OECD, Pearson, and Westat. He holds degrees from Washington, Indiana, and Harvard Universities, and a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

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