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Dr. Ridge has managed large-scale assessment scoring projects for over ten state departments of education and other MI clients since 1987. He directed production of dozens of staff development videos for several states and designed the Illinois CD-ROMs for Teachers series that won First Place in the Macromedia eLearning Innovation Award competition. Dr. Ridge is currently directing the development and marketing of MI's online assessment and professional development software products: MIMultimedia, MIST multiple-choice testing engine, PEG automated essay scoring program, WrAPonline K-12 writing assessment, and the ProWrite professional writing assessment program.
Dr. Ridge earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 1999 and an M.Ed. in Educational Media/Instructional Design in 1992 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed an internship in video training at the Duke University School of Medicine and has been a consultant in network multimedia training at the Duke University Medical Center Department of Radiology. Dr. Ridge has presented at a number of national research conferences and was awarded a 2001 American Educational Research Association Distinguished Paper Award. | 