Kirk Becker is a psychometrician and graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He spent 8 years developing psychological and developmental tests for Riverside Publishing, one of the oldest psychological and educational test publishing companies in America, and is now a psychometrician at Promissor. Kirk Becker has researched psychometric issues on his own and with the aid of Dr. Benjamin D. Wright at the University of Chicago, specializing in the analysis of complex test data and the fundamentals of measurement. Kirk holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Chicago and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.