Michael Rodriguez,Ph.D., associate professor in Educational Psychology, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Council of Measurement in Education (NCME). The mission of the National Council on Measurement in Education includes (1) the encouragement of scholarly efforts to advance the science of measurement in the field of education; improve measurement instruments and procedures for their administration, scoring, interpretation, and use; and improve applications of measurement in assessment of individuals and evaluations of educational programs. (2) The dissemination of knowledge about theory, techniques, and instrumentation available for measurement of educationally relevant human, institutional, and social characteristics; procedures appropriate to the interpretation and use of such techniques and instruments; and applications of educational measurement in individual and group evaluation studies. Rodriguez is also currently serving as the coordinator for the Quantitative Methods in Education track in Educational Psychology, director for the Office of Research Consultation Services (ORCS), and PI for the McKnight Foundation funded Identifying Essential Element of Childcare Project (IEEoCC) .