The American Educational Research Association (AERA) recently announced that Eva Baker, a distinguished professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, will receive this year’s E.F. Lindquist Award at its annual meeting in San Francisco April 27 – May 1.
Baker is director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at UCLA.
Named in honor of Lindquist, a pioneering scholar and researcher who co-founded the American College Testing Program (ACT), the award is co- sponsored by AERA and ACT and is given to an individual with outstanding applied or theoretical research in the field of testing and measurement. Professor Baker is being honored for her career research that has advanced greater understanding and improved the use of testing and measurement techniques both nationally and internationally.
“The Lindquist Award is a very well-deserved tribute to Professor Baker’s extraordinary work,” said GSE&IS Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco. “I am incredibly proud to have Eva as a colleague and leader of a foremost research and development center.”
Dr. Baker’s research continues to focus on the integration of instruction and measurement. She is involved in the design of technologically sophisticated testing and evaluation systems of assessment for both military and civilian education. Professor Baker has written or co-written hundreds of research articles and publications, many of them in distinguished peer reviewed journals.
“Dr. Baker’s high level of sustained contribution to testing, measurement, and assessment is nothing less than astounding,” said AERA Executive Director Felice Levine.
