I’m an associate professor in the Combined Counseling and School Psychology PhD and School Psychology MS/EdS programs within the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at Florida State University. My research focuses on development and assessment of academic and behavioral skills as well as multi-tiered prevention and intervention in these areas. Within this area of work, I primarily focus on math assessment and cognition and its codevelopment with a range of other cognitive and behavioral domains. 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’m a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (#62567).

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, psychometrics (IRT, factor analysis, diagnostic accuracy), as well as experimental and quasi/non-experimental design and causal inference.

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