Corinne Huggins-Manley
Associate Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology
Associate Director of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education
University of Florida Research Foundation Professor
About
Dr. A. Corinne Huggins-Manley’s research is focused on educational measurement, particularly with respect to issues of validity and fairness. She has published research on methods for ensuring strong validity and fairness evidence in technology-enhanced assessments as well as research on developments in fairness as a lack of statistical bias. She is the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on three large measurement grants from the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Huggins-Manley teaches multiple graduate level courses including Theory of Measurement and Item Response Theory, and also developed and manages two undergraduate research courses. In addition, she provides methodological consultation on various research grants and projects.
Affiliations
- School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education
- Affiliate Faculty of Lastinger Center for Learning
Research Interests
Data Collection and Analysis, Educational Assessment and Measurement, Quantitative Research, Research / Program Evaluation, Research Design
Education
- Ph.D. - Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation, University of Miami, Department of Educational and Psychological Studies
- MSW – Social Work with a Research Specialization, Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
- B.S. – Child and Family Development, University of Georgia, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Professional Appointments
- Associate Director of the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida (2021-present)
- Associate Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology, School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida (2018-present)
- Assistant Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology, School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida (2012-2018)
- Program Coordinator of Research and Evaluation Methodology, School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida (2015-2021)
- Coordinator of Undergraduate Specialization in Educational Psychology and Research Methods, College of Education, University of Florida (2018-2021)
Activities and Honors
- University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship award, 2020-2023
- Winner of the Distinguished Paper of the Year Award, Florida Educational Research Association, 2019
- Associate Editor, Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016-2019
- President, Florida Educational Research Association, 2018-2019
- Winner of the Distinguished Paper of the Year Award, Florida Educational Research Association, 2017
- University Term Professorship, University of Florida, 2017-2020
- Winner of the Diane E. Haines Teaching Excellence Award, University of Florida College of Education, 2017
- Winner of the Distinguished Paper of the Year Award, Florida Educational Research Association, 2016
- Advisor for the Student Winner of the Joe E. Covington Award, National Conference of Bar Examiners, 2016
- Winner of the Best Paper Award, American Educational Research Association, Special Interest Group: TACTL, 2015
- Winner of the Pacesetter Award , University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2014
- Winner of the Distinguished Paper of the Year Award, Florida Educational Research Association, 2013
Selected Grants
Project ReSpECT: Revealing Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Institute of Education Sciences
Project Period
- 2023-2027
Award Amount
- $2,000,000
CRAFT
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- National Science Foundation
Project Period
- 2021-2024
Award Amount
- $1,488,530
Precision Education: The Virtual Learning Lab
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Institute of Education Sciences
Project Period
- 2016-2022
Award Amount
- $8,832,035
Project DIMES: Diagnostic Instrument for Morphology of Elementary Students
Role
- PI
Funding Agency
- Institute of Education Sciences
Project Period
- 2019-2022
Award Amount
- $1,290,952
The Impact of Dialogic Reading Intervention on Low Income Preschool Children's Knowledge of Emotion Vocabulary and Emotion Causes
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
Project Period
- 2019-2020
Award Amount
- $37,552
5-minute Measurement: A YouTube Video Series
Role
- Advisor
Funding Agency
- National Council on Measurement in Education
Project Period
- 2019
Award Amount
- $10,000
Predictive Analysis of English Language Arts Benchmarks for Grade K-12 Students
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Contract with District School Board of Pasco County
Project Period
- 2018
Award Amount
- $5,000
Graduate Student Assistantship for the Development of a Diagnostic Tool for Assessing Morphological Awareness
Role
- PI
Funding Agency
- UF School of Human Development in Organizational Studies in Education
Project Period
- 2016
Award Amount
- $15,000
Development of a Diagnostic Tool for Assessing Morphological Awareness
Role
- PI
Funding Agency
- UF College of Education, College Research Incentive Fund
Project Period
- 2015-2016
Award Amount
- $39,000
Acting as advisor for a graduate student research project in psychometrics
Role
- Advisor
Funding Agency
- National Conference of Bar Examiners
Project Period
- 2016
Award Amount
- Advisor- $1,000 Total- $7,000
Selected Publications
Articles
- Huggins-Manley, A. C., Booth, B. M., & D’Mello, S. (in press). Toward argument-based fairness with an application to AI-enhanced educational assessments. Journal of Educational Measurement.
- Huggins-Manley, A. C., Beal, C. R., D'Mello, S. K., Leite, W. L., Cetin-Berber, D. D. (g), Kim, D., & McNamara, D. S. (2019). A commentary on construct validity when using operational virtual learning environment data in effectiveness studies. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 12, 750-759. https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2019.1639869
- Katz, D. (g), Huggins-Manley, A. C., & Leite, W. L. (2021). Personalized online learning, test fairness, and educational measurement: Considering differential content exposure prior to a high stakes end-of-course exam. Applied Measurement in Education, 35, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/08957347.2022.2034824
Books / Book Chapters
- Huggins-Manley, A.C. (2018). Differential item functioning. Entry in Frey, B.’s (Ed.) The Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation (pp. 517-521). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, Inc.
- Huggins-Manley, A.C. (2018). Item response theory. Entry in Frey, B.’s (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation (pp. 904-908). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.