DCM Workshop Speakers
Jonathan Templin, Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology
Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics (REMS) Program
College of Education, University of Georgia
Dr. Jonathan Templin is an Assistant Professor in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics program of the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Georgia. Dr. Templin obtained his Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also received an M.S. in Statistics. Dr. Templin has extensive experience in the development and application of latent variable models for educational and psychological measurement. His quantitative program of research-dev is focused on the expansion of diagnostic modeling in education and the social sciences.
The main focus of Dr. Templin’s research-dev is the development of statistical methods for classifying individuals with respect to psychological phenomena (mental abilities or psychological disorders). His work has been sponsored multiple times by the National Science Foundation grant, including a recently concluded grant titled “Constrained Finite Mixture Models for Psychological Diagnosis and Educational Assessment” (NSF Award Number SES- 0750859). Dr. Templin is also a Co-Principal Investigator on the NSF-funded grant titled “Diagnosing Teachers’ Multiplicative Reasoning” which seeks to develop a test of multiplicative reasoning with diagnostic models guiding the item development and analysis process. Dr. Templin’s research-dev has been published in methodological outlets such as Applied Psychological Measurement, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Journal of Educational Measurement, Psychological Methods,and Psychometrika.
Laine Bradshaw, Doctoral Candidate
Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology
Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics (REMS) Program
College of Education, University of Georgia
Laine Bradshaw is a doctoral candidate in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics Program in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia. Laine’s current research-dev is on progressing and applying diagnostic classification models with the objective of addressing marked issues in educational assessment through innovations and advances in methodology. The focus of her dissertation is the development of a psychometric model that combines scaling and classification to serve dual purposes of ranking individuals and diagnosing misconceptions.
With a master’s degree in Mathematics Education, Laine has partnered with the Georgia Department of Education in developing high school mathematics curriculum materials. In both a content specialist and psychometric capacity, she has participated in the development of an assessment to diagnose the abilities of middle grades mathematics teachers to reason multiplicatively through the NSF-funded grant titled “Diagnosing Teachers’ Multiplicative Reasoning” (proposal NSF award number DRL-0822064).