Review of Testing and the Paradoxes of Fairness, by Howard Wainer and Daniel H. Robinson

Kurt F. Geisinger is Director of the Buros Center for Testing and the Meierhenry Distinguished University Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a past president of American Psychological Association’s (APA) Quantitative and Qualitative Methodology and International Psychology divisions, the International Test Commission (ITC), and the Assessment and Evaluation division of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP); and a past board member of APA. He is currently Treasurer of the IAAP. A fellow of APA (seven divisions), the Association for Psychological Science, the AERA, Eastern Psychological Association, and ITC, he has chaired the Graduate Record Examination Board, chaired the College Board’s Research Committee, the Joint Committee on Testing Practices, and served on the SAT Committee. He edited/co-edited more than 20 volumes including the APA Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology, Psychological Testing of Hispanics (two editions), seven Mental Measurements Yearbooks, Fairness in Educational and Psychological Testing, College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change, several monographs and instructors’ manuals and written about 170 chapters and journal articles. He chaired the GRE Board, the GRE Technical Advisory Committee, the College Board’s Research Advisory Committee, and served on the SAT Committee. He has been an expert witness in more than two dozen cases, primarily defending and critiquing civil service tests and arguing for the rights of those with disabilities in admission and licensure tests. He served as chair of the Fordham University Psychology department, Dean of Arts and Sciences at SUNY-Oswego, and Academic Vice President/Provost at Le Moyne College and the University of St. Thomas.