Professor Jimmy de la Torre has been elected President of the Psychometric Society for the 2026-2027 term

We are pleased to share the news that Professor Jimmy de la Torre of the Faculty’s Academic Unit of Human Communication, Learning, and Development has been elected the 90th President of the Psychometric Society for the 2026-2027 term. He will serve on its Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee from 2026 to 2028.

The Psychometric Society is a learned society founded in 1935, and has a long and illustrious history. Its flagship journal is the prestigious Psychometrika. The Society unites the academic effort from all over the world to develop and improve quantitative methods that are essential for the construction of psychological tests and questionnaires. Examples of such methods are classical test theory, factor analysis, item response theory, and latent class analysis. These methods have also become important in fields outside of psychology, such as educational testing, health measurement, marketing, sociology, political science, and policy research. The Society’s past presidents include some of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, such as Louis Leon Thurstone, Edward Lee Thorndike, Joy Paul Guilford, and Lee Joseph Cronbach. For details about the Society, please visit www.psychometricsociety.org.

Professor de la Torre is a highly respected member of the Psychometric Society, who has made his mark in psychometrics by his very productive, high-level contribution to the development of cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs). These models combine the best of two worlds, latent class models and item response models, and have a wide range of applications. In addition, Professor de la Torre is the recipient of several awards. In 2009, he was named by the White House as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He also received the Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award in 2009 and the Bradley Hanson Award for Contributions to Educational Measurement in 2017 from the National Council on Measurement in Education.

Our heartfelt congratulations to Professor de la Torre on his achievement!