S. Stuart Flanagan, Ed. D. – is a mathematics educator with substantial experience in research and student testing. Education: Washington and Lee University – BS, University of Virginia – M.Ed. and Ed.D. He served as chair of the math department at St. Christopher’s School (grades K-12) in Richmond, Virginia. Thereafter, he was a professor at the College of William and Mary for 30 years teaching mathematics and mathematics education-related courses including research, testing, and curriculum development. He is now professor emeritus.
During his tenure, he developed test items for several projects at the local and state level, directed several NSF grants, consulted with school divisions statewide, authored numerous articles, and was a senior consultant to CBS Publications for the mathematics series Mathematics Unlimited. Additionally, he was a grader for the ETS Advanced Placement Program. During the late '80s and early '90s, he was known throughout Virginia for his highly successful Literacy Passport Test materials, used extensively throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. These materials, by providing data for each child on every standard, enabled a number of districts to dramatically increase their student-passing rate. The conceptual model for those materials is the basis for the TESTS FOR HIGHER STANDARDS assessments used by some 1000 schools and 700,000 students throughout Virginia and South Carolina.
Special honors include being the first president of both the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Peninsula Council of Teachers of Mathematics. He also served as president of the Greater Richmond Council of Teachers of Mathematics and was presented the William C. Lowry Outstanding Mathematics Teacher award. Additionally, he was an E. I. DuPont Fellow at the University of Virginia and was awarded a Shell Merit Scholarship and NSF grant for study and independent research at the University of Virginia. He now works with Dr. Mott in developing high stakes testing and instructional materials.

David E. W. Mott, Ph. D. – is a psychologist and psychometrician by training and work. Education: Vanderbilt University - BA, American University – MA, Virginia Commonwealth University – Ph.D. He worked at the Virginia Department of Education for nearly twenty years within the student testing division. While there, he was Test Development Supervisor and Virginia State Assessment Program (VSAP) Administrator, among other duties and positions. His activities covered the full range of testing: development and evaluation, test construction, validation, equating, and test utilization. He was involved in a number of test adoption procedures and also with curriculum development. He worked with statewide tests such as: the Basic Learning Skills Tests, the Graduation Competency Tests, the Standards of Learning – Teacher Resource Materials (1st and 2nd editions), the Literacy Passport Tests, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), as well as with VSAP. He served as the testing unit’s liaison with the computer support group.
He is past president of the Virginia Research Educational Association, and a member of the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, the National Council on Measurement in Education, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Dr. Mott lives in the City of Richmond and has two children attending the Richmond Public Schools. He now works with Dr. Flanagan in developing testing and instructional materials.