About the Authors

CHARLES W. HATCH Ph.D., is President of CWH Consulting Co., Newberry, South Carolina. He earned a Master of Arts in Teaching at Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in Educational Research and Measurement at the University of South Carolina. He has taught college courses in tests and measurement, statistics and test preparation. Dr. Hatch has published the “Introductory Handbook of Measurement”, “An Introductory Handbook for Statistical Package Programming” and papers on test preparation, college retention, microcomputers and software.

Dr. Hatch is affiliated with the Friedman Institute for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Education (EDIE). He authored Pass That Test: A Guide to Successful Test Taking (2008) and co-authored the Educator’s Handbook on Effective Testing (2003) with Dr. Myles Friedman et al.

Dr. Hatch lives in Newberry, South Carolina near his two children, Lisa and David and his four granddaughters, Samantha, Kimberly, Robin and Brooke.

MICKI DURHAM GIBSON, MAT, is a math educator with an undergraduate degree from Southern Wesleyan University and an MAT from Clemson University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Research at the University of South Carolina. She has conducted test preparation workshops across the Southeast from North Carolina to Mississippi. Her current interests include Singapore Math, slide rules, statistics, test preparation and teacher training.

Mrs. Gibson resides in Pendleton, South Carolina with her husband, Steve, and her four children, Alison, Jason, Katherine and John-Michael.


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