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 …
Quantitative Methods
Kaplan and Huang Pioneer Bayesian Techniques to Monitor Educational Outcomes
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 …
Ed Psych Student Weicong Lyu Explores How Response Anchoring Can Detect Low Effort Completing Surveys
All researchers know that the ability to conduct good research depends on trustworthy data. For self-report rating scale data, a frequent concern is lack of respondent effort, or careless responding. If pervasive, this quickly leads to …
Dept of Ed Psych Presents Dr. James Pustejovsky – Four Things that Every Researcher Should Know About Research Synthesis
Join the Department of Educational Psychology’s Dr. James Pustejovsky, for a talk on the “Four Things that Every Researcher Should Know About Research Synthesis.” Monday, September 27, 2021. 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. CT 259 Educational …
Quantitative Methods Students Present at NCME
Earlier this summer, The Quantitative Methods area in the Department of Educational Psychology at UW-Madison had five students present at the National Council of Measurement in Education (NCME) Conference. Kylie Gorney presented three papers at …