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Kathleen Scalise is a professor at the University of Oregon in the Department of Methodology, Policy and Leadership. Dr. Scalise employs data science at the intersection with measurement and assessment for applied and theoretical research, including for learning in digital social networks and science/engineering education, as well as for network analyses of leadership and collaboration. She has extensive research in the areas of learning, e-learning, large-scale assessment, and instructional technology in the context of STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and also in emergent language, second language acquisition, digital literacy, social collaboration, leadership, and 21st century skills. In addition to data analytics, she is interested in new models for dynamic delivery of differentiated content to support the needs of all learners, innovative item types, and equity, opportunity and access in education. She serves currently as director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Science for ETS. She is co-lead for the University of Oregon Social Systems Data Science Network. Her projects have included research on 21st Century Skills Assessments with Cisco, Intel and Microsoft; STEM Virtual Performance Assessments with Harvard University; and technology-enhanced assessments with Smarter Balanced and NGSS science assessment designs. She has served internationally on OECD’s PISA, and IEA’s eTIMSS and ICILS. She has extensive journal publications and served on the NRC committee report on assessment of the Next Generation Science Standards. She holds K-12 teaching credentials (California) for physical sciences and life sciences, a B.A. in biochemistry, and the Ph.D. focusing on Quantitative Measurement from UC Berkeley.