I am an Associate Professor of Special Education at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. My research focuses on finding creative methodological and statistical ways to address applied questions concerning individual differences in children’s academic and cognitive skills, and especially the growth and development of these skills. I believe strongly that statistics are an investigative and storytelling tool, and one of the goals of my work is to help researchers find and use the right statistical tool for their research questions.
My background is in statistics and research methodology in Education and Psychology. I have a Masters degree in Research Psychology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Florida State University. My statistical expertise includes random effects modeling, structural equation modeling, behavior genetics, growth modeling, and quantile regression.