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Bruno D. Zumbo,
Ph.D.
Director of the Edgeworth
Lab,
UBC Click here to see the scholarly roots of the Edgeworth Lab.
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Positions:
- Primary appointment:
Graduate Program in Measurement,
Evaluation and Research Methodology (MERM), Dept. of ECPS, University of
British Columbia
Additional Professional Affiliations (Associate Member and Faculty Member):
- Department
of Statistics, University of British Columbia
- Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia
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a complete list of my publications and a brief description of
my program of research.
Awards:
- 2012 Recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize, UBC
- 2011 Elected a Fellow of the American
Educational Research Association, AERA
- 2010 Recipient of the Research Fellow Award
by the International Society for Quality of Life Studies,
ISQOLS
- 2005 Recipient of the Samuel J. Messick Memorial Lecture Award,
awarded jointly by ETS, LRTC, and ILTA.
- 1998 Recipient of the first University of
Northern British Columbia University-wide Excellence in
Teaching Award.
- 1989-1990 Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada Research Fellow
Dr. Zumbo is a statistician whose
professional interests center upon developing statistical
theory and quantitative methods for conducting research,
testing, and evaluation. In essence, his interests are in
mathematical and statistical methods. He completed his B.Sc.
at the University of Alberta and then his M.A. and Ph.D. at
Carleton University focusing in Mathematical Psychology and
Statistics. Dr. Zumbo began his academic career as a professor
at the University of Ottawa in the Measurement &
Evaluation Program and the School of Psychology in 1990. In
1994 he moved to the then newly opened University of Northern
British Columbia where he was Professor of Mathematics and
Psychology. In the spring of 2000 he was recruited to the
University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, with an eye
toward further developing UBC's
Measurement, Evaluation, & Research Methodology (MERM)
Program in the Department of ECPS. At UBC his primary
appointment is in the MERM Program with additional
appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Institute
of Applied Mathematics.
He has two interrelated research programs:
1. Dr. Zumbo has done fundamental research in both theoretical and applied psychometrics and statistical science -- mathematical and statistical methods. His current research interests include procedures for evaluating variable importance in statistical models; performance characteristics of standard procedures (both parametric and nonparametric) under non-standard conditions; measurement theory (including axiomatic measurement theory, classical test theory and item response modeling), educational measurement, and the foundations of statistics.
2. He has developed a secondary
research program on measurement, program evaluation, and
methodological issues in quality of life, subjective
well-being, and social science research. This part of
his research program is, in essence, in the tradition of
applied social psychology: social-psychological research and
psychological measurement directed towards the understanding
of human social behavior, the
amelioration of social problems, and the improvement and
understanding of the determinants and correlates of our
quality-of-life.
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for Quantitative Educational & Behavioural Science.
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(MERM) Program at UBC.
Updated: June 25, 2012