Barbara S. Plake is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was on the faculty in the Department of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Education and Director of the Buros Center for Testing for nearly 30 years.  She specializes in standard setting, validity, and computerized adaptive testing.  She has authored over 200 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and other publications.  Her work has been published in journals such at The Journal of Educational Measurement, Educational Measurement:  Issues and Practices, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Educational Measurement, Applied Measurement in Education, Applied Psychological Measurement, and elsewhere.  She is a contributor to The Handbook of Educational Measurement and was co-editor of The Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print.  She is the founding co-editor of Applied Measurement in Education. She is a consultant on testing with several states and organizations. Her research focuses on classroom assessment practices, computerized testing, and on methods for determining the passing score on high-stakes tests.  Dr. Plake was member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) where she was inducted as a Fellow in 2008.  She was President of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) in 1992 and served on their Board of Directors from 1986-1993. In 2006 she received NCME’s Award for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement.  She is a Fellow of Division 5 (Measurement and Research Methods) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and co-chaired AERA, APA, and NCME’s Joint Committee on the Revision to the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (2014).  In 2005 she received the Career Achievement Award from the Association of Test Publishers.  Dr. Plake received her Ph.D. in Educational Measurement and Statistics from the University of Iowa in 1976.  She was a Research Associate at American College Testing Programs (ACT) in Iowa City, Iowa before joining the faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977