Quantitative Methods Lab at Southern Methodist University
Quantitative Methods Lab is a research group at Southern Methodist University. We are not officially affiliated to any specific academic/service unit, but housed at the Center on Research and Evaluation (CORE) at SMU. The membership of the QML is cross-institutional, and its members actively study and collaborate on various research topics on quantitative methods and psychometrics in behavioral science and educational research.
Akihito Kamata is a Professor at Southern Methodist University (Department of Education Policy & Leadership, and Department of Psychology). His primary research interest is psychometrics and educational and psychological measurement, focusing on implementation of item-level test data analysis methodology through various modeling framework, including item response theory, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling.
Yusuf Kara is a Assistant Professor at the University of Miami. His research interests primarily focus on contemporary psychometric methods such as multilevel item response modeling, structural equation modeling, and mediation analysis. He was formerly a Senior Data Analyst at the Center on Research and Evaluation at SMU.
Cornelis Potgieter is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Texas Christian University (TCU). His research interests includes Nonparametric statistics, applications of characteristic functions, spatial statistics, capture-recapture methods, measurement error and latent variable models, generalized skew-symmetric distributions.
Joseph Nese is a Research Professor at the University of Oregon. His research interests include psychometrics quantitative methods applications in reading research.
Xin Qiao is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. Her research interests include cognitive diagnostic models and process data analysis in educational assessment contexts. She was formerly a Post-Doctoral Fellow at SMU.
Gozce Sirganci is a Postdoctoral Fellow at SMU.
William Annan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at TCU.
Kuo Wang (SMU)
Paul Foster (SMU)
Joanne Joo (SMU)
Cesar Flores (SMU)
Xinya Liang (University of Arkansas)
Chalie Patarapichayatham (SMU, currently with HMH)
Hao Ma (SMU)
Patrick Lan (SMU)
Nancy Le (SMU)
Ji Li (Arkansas)
Sarunya Somsong (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Gonca Usta (Cumhuriyet University, Turkey)
Ming-Chuan Hsieh (National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan)
Gozde Sirganci (Bozok University, Turkey)