Category: Quantitative Methods

School of Education welcomes 11 new faculty members to campus (Lingbo Tong, Anna Julia Cooper Fellow (2025-26) and assistant professor (starting in fall 2026), Department of Educational Psychology)

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  A new cohort of 11 exceptional faculty members is joining the UW–Madison School of Education in 2025-26. To welcome these newest members of our community — and to reconnect with colleagues and celebrate the start of the new school year — the School is hosting its annual Welcome Back Bash event for faculty and …

UW–Madison’s Kaplan tapped by UNESCO to lead data harmonization efforts

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UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Hilldale Professor and Richard L. Venezky Professor of Educational Psychology, has been appointed by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics to lead a project to harmonize international and regional educational assessments. Kaplan This effort supports UNESCO’s mission to forecast progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goal of achieving minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics by 2030 …

UW-Madison’s Kaplan named Hilldale Professor

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David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has been honored with a Hilldale Professorship. Kaplan Hilldale Professorships are given to faculty members who excel in scholarly activity, have records of outstanding research or creative work, and show promise of continued productivity. Recipients receive a salary increase …

UW-Madison’s Kaplan presents to OECD on UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in Education

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UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology, was in Paris in September to give an invited presentation to staff of the Directorate of Education and Skills of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).  Kaplan The focus of the presentation was on Kaplan’s work (funded by …

‘The right place at the right time’: UW–Madison unites researchers at inaugural quantitative ethnography summer institute

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By Laurel White When Adaurennaya “Ada” Onyewuenyi was a doctoral student at the University of Washington, her research advisor stumbled upon a book that would drastically change their work — and, arguably, Onyewuenyi’s career as an educational psychology researcher. At the time, Onyewuenyi was at a crucial point in her dissertation and was beginning the academic …

UW–Madison’s Kaplan will be guest professor at Heidelberg University in Germany

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UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was named an international guest professor and will spend three months at the Institute für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at Heidelberg University in Germany. The professorship is part of the project “Expanding Internationality,” a component of the university’s Excellence …

UW–Madison’s Gorney receives prestigious Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship

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UW–Madison’s Kylie Gorney was selected to receive the Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship from Educational Testing Service (ETS). The fellowship is the most prestigious student award issued by ETS, and is intended to honor Harold Gulliksen, one of the pioneers of psychometrics, who was a professor of psychology at Princeton University and the inaugural director of the …

Kaplan receives IES grant to develop forecasting models for UN Sustainable Development Goals

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UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has received a three-year, $897,000 grant from the Institute for Education Sciences to work on the development of probabilistic forecasting approaches to model trends toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The purpose of this project is …

David Kaplan Elected President of The Psychometric Society

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David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology was elected as President of the Psychometric Society.  His term will begin in July 2023  The Psychometric Society was founded in 1935 and is devoted to the advancement of quantitative methodology in the behavioral sciences. The Psychometric Society publishes the …

Kaplan and Huang Pioneer Bayesian Techniques to Monitor Educational Outcomes

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Monitoring trends in education outcomes over time is critically important to education policy. Dr. David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods, and his graduate student Mingya Huang have developed a Bayesian probabilistic forecasting workflow that can improve this monitoring when applied to large-scale assessment trend data. At the international level, large-scale assessment programs …