Brian Habing

@bthabing.bsky.social

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Assoc. Prof. of Statistics and Director of Data Science & Data Analytics B.S. programs at the University of South Carolina. Assoc. Director at NISS. UIUC Grad. Psychometrics & Educational Stats. Opinions here are mine. Non-academic posts are elsewhere.

Challenge #3: Look around you in your work, at your organization, in your department, at your institution and ask who still isn't being let into the room. Hiring managers, evaluate your hiring practices and salary distribution and advancement opportunities for your staff. Are they equitable across gender and racial groups?
Challenge #2: At the conference or back at home - talk to someone in a role different than yours, or to a colleague with whom you don't regularly work, that you may not typically be in the same room with in your daily work. Ask them what questions they are working on, what challenges they are trying to solve, and how you might collaborate. I challenge you to step out of your lane, come out of your silo, and to try a new way.
Challenge #1: Take a more critical lense to your own methods, models, and assumptions and to evaluate the evidence for your inferences. Speak up in challenge to the uses and inferences that others are making, based on AI or not.
Moving the field forward requires: more evidence, more investment, more willingness to challenge our own assumptions; more willingness to communicate with and truly listen to our stakeholders - earlier and more often, more critical evaluation of our tools, methods, and theories and more tolerance for the discomfort that comes with change and criticism.
NCME Values. The National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) advances the science and practice of measurement in service of learning, human development, and the public good. Our values guide how we conduct our work, how we interact as a professional community, and how we engage with society. They reflect both enduring scientific principles and our shared ethical commitments as stewards of measurement in education.
Promote Validity, Fairness and Quality in AI-Integrated Assessment. Bridge Measurement Science and AI Expertise. Strengthen Connections Between Research, Policy and Practice. Expand and Deepen NCME's Global Engagement.
A huge crowd having a good time talking at the NCME/AERA Div D Reception.
Picture of Brian Harrold presenting his eboard.
Graph from AmStatNews of the strong growth of Statistics Degrees at the Bachelor's and Master's degrees, especially from 2012-1022 (with a brief drop in MS), huge spike in Data Science Bachelor's since 2020, and slow and steady rise of Stats Ph.D.'s.