Andrew Poggio was born on July 14, 1976 in Lawrence, Kansas.

He is a research associate for the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas working in the areas of assessment and psychometrics, program evaluation, and statistical analysis. CETE is the vendor of the State of Kansas testing program and is the only university-based organization in the nation implementing statewide assessment under the current national testing mandates (NCLB, No Child left behind).

His primary responsibility is developing and coordinating the kansas mathematics assessments at all grade levels. Duties include item piloting and analysis, working with review panels of content and curriculum personnel and psychometic experts, item selection and test form construction reflecting the state curricular standards, performing validation (reliability/validity studies) and equating/comparability work, score reporting and results dissemination, as well as developing performance standards and implementing standard-setting (cutscore) studies.

Along with the State test development activities, Poggio is involved at CETE in planning and conducting both basic and applied research and evaluation investigations into a variety of assessment issues such as consequential and impact validation, test bias, evaluation of trends, and the impact of testing on schooling, public perception, teaching practices, instructional design, and learning outcomes. His primary interests are in applications of statistical and measurement methodologies for solving practical education problems, including issues related to large-scale assessment, equating, the implementation and evaluation of innovative assessment designs including computer-based testing, and the use of achievement information for making decisions about students.

Background
Poggio attended Saint Louis University on an academic and athletic scholarship for swimming, graduating in 1998 with an Honor's Bachelor of Arts in psychology. He was a Fulbright Fellow to Italy in 1998-99, conducting research from the Universitá degli Studi di Padova on a project entitled Hope: Its cultural anchors and societal implications. He has a master's degree from Boston College in Educational Research, measurement, and Evaluation (2001).