Joy Matthews-López

Dr. Matthews-López is a Senior Psychometrician at Professional Testing and an adjunct instructor of mathematics at Ohio University. She holds a MS in applied mathematics and statistics from NC State and a PhD in Educational Research and Evaluation from Ohio University.

Prior to joining Professional Testing, Joy served as senior psychometrician at the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), psychometric supervisor at Prometric, Director of Research for the Centers of Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE) at Ohio University, and measurement statistician at ETS.

Joy is active in numerous professional organizations and is a regular presenter at national conferences. Joy’s current applications are in the areas of certification and licensure and her research interests include test adaptation, exam security, automated forms assembly, and innovative item development.

Test Translation vs. Test Adaptation: What’s the Difference? (Guest Post)

Oct 19, 2015

Taking psychometric test items abroad is about so much more than translation. In our second guest post, Dr. Joy Matthews-López talks about some of the considerations she has faced in the past adapting her items for Mexico.

Test Adaptation: A Psychometric Perspective (Guest Post)

Aug 26, 2015

Comms has been asking industry thought leaders to provide guest contributions for our blog. In her first post for Comms Multilingual, Dr. Joy Matthews-López, Senior Psychometrician at the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) writes about test adaptation and equivalence of translated and adapted versions to the original.