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Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of Committee
Members, Workshop Speakers, and

Workshop Discussants

George W. Bohrnstedt (Chair) is senior vice president for research emeritus
at the American Institutes for Research, where he is involved in the develop-
ment of new programs of research for the organization and brings a deep
interest in education research and policy issues. He has had an interest
in measurement in the social sciences throughout his professional career,
growing out of his minor in educational psychology with an emphasis
on tests and measurement. He currently chairs the National Center for
Education Statistics’ Validity Studies Panel for the National Assessment of
Educational Progress. He has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in sociology
and a minor in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.

Christine A. Bachrach is a visiting scholar at the Social Science Research
Institute at Duke University and research professor in the School of Be-
havioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland. Her scientific
interests and publications span the areas of fertility, family formation,
marriage and divorce, adoption, sexual behavior, contraceptive practice,
population health, and survey methodology. Her current research focuses
on the measurement and integration of cultural schemas in social demogra-
phy. She has an M.A. in sociology from Georgetown University and a Ph.D.
in population dynamics from Johns Hopkins University.

Norman M. Bradburn is Tiffany and Margaret Blake distinguished service
professor emeritus of the University of Chicago and a senior fellow at
the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Associated with NORC

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