December 2011 > Faculty > Honors

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Wilson Elected to National Academy of Education

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Graduate School of Education professor Mark Wilson has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education (NAEd).

The Academy consists of up to 200 U.S. members and up to 25 foreign associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship or outstanding contributions to education. Founded in 1965, the mission of NAEd is to advance the highest quality of education research and its use in policy formation and practice. Since its establishment, the Academy has sponsored a variety of commissions and study panels that have published influential proceedings and reports.

Wilson is the eighth member of UC Berkeley’s School of Education to be selected. Other members are Andrea diSessa, Marcia Linn, Judith Warren Little, P. David Pearson, Geoffrey Saxe and Alan Schoenfeld. K. Patricia Cross is an emerita member of the National Academy.

A professor in Policy, Organization, Measurement and Evaluation, Wilson directs the Berkeley Evaluation Assessment Research (BEAR) Center, and has written several books and articles. His interests focus on measurement and applied statistics. He was a member of the Testing and Assessment Panel of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences panel, and currently chairs a National Research Council committee on assessment of science achievement. He is founding editor of the new journal: Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives.

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