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.
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 in addition to funding that may be used for research support and teaching release. Appointments are for five years with the possibility of renewal until the individual leaves the university or retires.
Kaplan’s research focuses on the development of Bayesian statistical methods for education research and is directed toward large-scale cross-sectional and longitudinal survey designs. He has been actively involved in the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), where he served on its Technical Advisory Group from 2005 to 2009 and its Questionnaire Expert Group from 2004 to the present. Kaplan also served as chair of the Questionnaire Expert Group for PISA 2015.
At the national level, Kaplan is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and served as the chair of its Research Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and was a recipient of the Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from APA (Division 5). He was also past president of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, is currently president of the Psychometric Society, and was a Jeanne Griffith Fellow at the National Center for Education Statistics.
Internationally, Kaplan was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award; a visiting fellow at the Luxembourg Institute for Social and Economic Research; and is currently a fellow of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories in Bamberg, Germany. He was appointed the Johann von Spix International Visiting Professor at the Universität Bamberg, the Max Kade Visiting Professor at the Universität Heidelberg, and was an International Guest Professor at the Universität Heidelberg.
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