I’m an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at Florida State University. I teach courses and advise students in the MS/EdS School Psychology and Combined Counseling and School Psychology PhD programs. My research focuses on development and assessment of academic and behavioral skills as well as multi-tiered prevention and intervention in these areas. I’m particularly interested in math development and its relations to other skill areas (e.g., academic language, reading, executive functions). I also research how school context and other ecological factors relate to developmental patterns and the implementation of prevention and intervention programs. I’m a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (#62567).

My work has a strong focus on quantitative methods and how those methods can be used to answer applied questions relevant to school psychology and related fields. I’m especially interested in Bayesian inference methods for psychometrics, longitudinal modeling, and causal inference.

I regularly work with school districts and other community organizations to answer applied research questions (e.g., https://nssc.serveminnesota.org/about ). I’m excited for new opportunities to collaborate. If you are a PK-12 education-related organization and have questions about your data and programs related to my areas of work, please reach out!

If you are a researcher/research team/instructor with interests in my areas of work, I am also available to give guest lectures in your class or talks to your lab/team meeting. Example guest lectures/research talks I have given include universal screening practices in schools, longitudinal research, and paper-specific talks. I can also provide methodological tutorials (with as much Bayesian flavor as you like) on longitudinal quantitative methods, diagnostic accuracy, as well as experimental and quasi/non-experimental design and causal inference.

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