Robert J. Mislevy

Robert J. Mislevy (1950–2025) was an American academic and psychometrician. He is known for his contributions to the field of educational measurement and psychometrics and wrote Sociocognitive Foundations of Educational Measurement. Mislevy led the scholars who shaped the enormously influential Evidence Centered Design (ECD) meta-framework that has informed the development effort of many large scale standardized assessments and gave rise the broader principled assessment design movement.

Mislevy earned a B.S. (1972) and M.S. (1974) in mathematics from Northern Illinois University.

He was a past president of the Psychometric Society. and 2019 and the Psychometric Society in 2022.

Mislevy wrote and edited many books in educational measurement and psychometrics including the Bayesian Psychometric Modeling. "Bayesian networks in educational assessment", and "Computational Psychometrics: New Methodologies for a New Generation of Digital Learning and Assessment".

He died on May 22, 2025.