College of Education and Human Development

Department of Educational Psychology

Quantitative methods in education faculty

Nana Kim Nana Kim

My interests lie in the development and application of statistical models with the goal of better understanding how students/respondents interact with test items and consequently improving the measurement of psychological and cognitive constructs.

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Nidhi Kohli Nidhi Kohli

  • Royal and Virginia Anderson Professor of Quantitative Methods in Education; program coordinator, quantitative methods in education
  • 612-624-9001
  • nkohli@umn.edu

I am passionate about advancing both the science and application of educational statistics. My research focuses on developing and refining advanced statistical methodologies to analyze complex longitudinal data.

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Chelsey Legacy Chelsey Legacy

My research interests are in teaching and learning statistics. In particular, I study multivariate thinking, visualization, and computing in statistics and data science courses.

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Haoran Li Haoran Li

I am currently accepting doctoral students in the Quantitative Methods in Education (QME) program.

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Suzanne Loch Suzanne Loch

My courses are well thought out and purposefully designed, incorporating activities that facilitate multiple ways to engage with the content. I am organized, respectful of students' time and happy to answer questions inside and outside of class.

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Wenchao Ma Wenchao Ma

  • Associate professor, the American Guidance Service Inc. and John P. Yackel Professor in Educational Assessment and Measurement
  • He, him
  • wma@umn.edu

My research centers on the development of innovative psychometric methods to enhance measurement practices in education and psychology, along with the application of measurement techniques to survey and scale development and validation.

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Michael Rodriguez Michael Rodriguez

  • CEHD Dean; Campbell Leadership Chair in Education and Human Development; professor
  • 612-624-5761
  • mcrdz@umn.edu

Michael C. Rodriguez is Dean of CEHD and a professor of measurement. He joined the UMN faculty in 1999 and in 2013 was named the Campbell Leadership Chair in Education and Human Development.

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Andrew Zieffler Andrew Zieffler

My research interests are in the teaching and learning of statistics and data science. I am also interested in measurement and assessment as it relates to statistics education and data science research.

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