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The point of this site is to give you some information about me, Derek Briggs.  I'm an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I'm also currently (as of 2008) the chair of the Research and Evaluation Methodology (REM) program.  You probably got to this site through the faculty page of the CU School of Education web site . That page gives a pretty standard summary of my contact info, research interests and education.  In case you missed it:

My research agenda focuses upon building sound methodological approaches for the valid measurement and evaluation of growth in student achievement. Examples of his research interests in the area of educational measurement include (1) characterizing the gap between validity theory and practice in the context of high-stakes standardized testing, and (2) developing IRT models capable of measuring complex learning trajectories. Examples of research interests in applied statistics include critical analysis of the statistical models used to make causal inferences about the effects of teachers, schools and other educational interventions on the growth of student achievement.  

The best place to go to get up to date information about my research, teaching and publications is by browsing the links at my CU SOE faculty web site. If I were more on the ball I'd keep this personal web site updated, and add in blogs and the like...but in point of fact I don't. 

My site has five central pages plus one external link, which are always provided at the bottom of each page.