Background

Dr. Rupp initially studied to become a secondary school teacher for English, French, and Mathematics at the University of Hamburg in his hometown of Hamburg, Germany. Through completing his Master’s work in Teaching English as a Second Language / Applied Linguistics and Mathematics / Statistics in the U.S. as well as his Ph.D. work in Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology in Canada, he got lured more deeply into the beauty of academic research and graduate-level teaching. Dr. Rupp started his academic career at the bilingual University of Ottawa in Canada followed by a two-year visiting professorship at the Institute for Educational Progress in Berlin, Germany, where he worked in an interdisciplinary team on developing national standards-based assessments for English as a first foreign language.

These experiences significantly expanded his appreciation of the complexities of working at the interdisciplinary intersection of modern measurement, assessment development, and policy-making. In his current position at the EDMS department at the University of Maryland Dr. Rupp utilizes his experience and expertise to integrate rigorous statistical inquires of modern measurement models with principled assessment design in complex learning environments.

His current statistical research interests specifically center around cognitively-grounded assessment approaches and associated statistical models, which broadly fall under the umbrella terms diagnostic measurement / cognitively diagnostic assessment and diagnostic classification models (DCMs) / cognitive diagnosis models. Dr. Rupp has recently co-authored a book on this topic with two colleagues of his in the field, Jonathan Templin and Robert Henson, which has received rather positive reviews from colleagues and practitioners so far. In addition, the work of Dr. Rupp is frequently concerned with making the current state-of-the-art of methodological research and practice accessible to a wide range of trained specialists from different disciplines. He is particularly interested in such work when it takes place at the intersection of educational and psychological measurement, applied cognitive psychology and the learning sciences and advances the state-of-the-art at the frontiers of modern measurement.

More Information

For more information about Andre Rupp and his work, see his faculty page.