Aliza Berger


Dr. Berger has overseen all of StatSure.net’s projects since establishing the company in 2002. She ensures that all work meets the clients’ needs as well as StatSure.com’s quality standards. Her own specialty is editing statistical reports.

Subject Areas

Psychometrics, standardized testing, cognitive psychology, surveys.

Statistics Expertise

t-test, ANOVA, MANOVA, correlational analysis, regression analysis. Chi-square, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney U, (test) item analysis, item response theory.

Computer Expertise

SPSS, Excel, Word

Education

PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Applied Statistics, Columbia University, New York. Dissertation title: Effects of problem features on strategy selection in mathematics word problems.
BSE in Engineering Science, Cooper Union, New York

Additional Biography

Dr. Berger worked as a researcher and tests and measurements consultant at the New York City Board of Education and at the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation in Jerusalem. She taught the graduate course Classroom Testing at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Dr. Berger has made several conference presentations, including ones at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. She interned at ETS (Educational Testing Service) in Princeton, NJ and published in the ETS Research Report Series.