Corinne Huggins-Manley
Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology
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 regularly engaged as a Principal and Co-Principal Investigator on external educational research grants from entities such as the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Huggins-Manley also supports faculty, staff, and students through her role as Director of her department.
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
- Director of the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida (2024-present)
- Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology, School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida (2024-present)
- Associate Director of the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida (2021-2024)
- Associate Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology, School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, College of Education, University of Florida (2018-2024)
- 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
- Irving and Rose Fien Endowed Professorship in Education University of Florida, 2024-2026
- Wiley Publishers Top-Cited Journal Article Award, Top-cited in articles published January 2022 to December 2023, Article: Toward Argument-Based Fairness with an Application to AI-Enhanced Educational Assessments, Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
- Graduate Education Champion Award, The Graduate School, University of Florida, 2024
- Discovery Round award ($20,000 for further development of Storiza) 2023
- National Science Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and the Walton Family Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize
- Educational Researcher of the Year, Florida Educational Research Association 2021
- 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
Stealth assessment of oral reading fluency
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund
Project Period
- 2024-2025
Award Amount
- $99,592
Project SUSTAIN: Sustaining Special Education Teachers by Improving Working Conditions: A Collaborative Intervention Development and Investigation of Promise
Role
- Co-PI
Funding Agency
- Institute of Education Sciences
Project Period
- 2024-2028
Award Amount
- $2,000,000
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., Raborn, A., & Jones, P. K. (online first- 2024). A nonparametric composite group DIF index for focal groups stemming from multi-categorical variables. Journal of Educational Measurement. http://doi.org/10.1111/jedm.12394
- Huggins-Manley, A. C., Huang, J., Danso, J., Li, W., & Leite, W. L. (2024). Classroom assessment and instructional modes: An exploration of school-level contextualized psychometric challenges. Journal of Experimental Education, 92, 513-530. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2023.2201171
- Kwon, T. (g), Huggins-Manley, A. C., Templin, J., & Zheng, M. (g) (online first-2024). Modeling hierarchical attribute structures in diagnostic classification models with multiple attempts. Journal of Educational Measurement. https://doi.org/10.1111/jedm.12387
- 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.