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2008 John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology

Matthew R. Reynolds Biosketch: Matt grew up in Olean, NY. He left Western New York for the blue skies of North Carolina where he ended up working as a school psychologist for two years. In 2003, he entered graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin. At Texas he worked under the mentorship of Tim Keith who introduced him to latent variable modeling. He soon realized the important role that quantitative methods would play in his being able to answer, as well as to ask with more clarity, his research questions. Therefore, he decided to pursue a dual specialization in quantitative methods and school psychology. He graduated in August of 2008 ...

2008: Decatur, GA

Program Distinguished Contributor Interview: Ted Nettelbeck  [vimeo id="5141826" width="620" height="360"] ISIR Distinguished Interview: Professor Ted Nettelbeck from Timothy Bates on Vimeo. Invited Speaker: K. Warner Schaie Awards 2008 Programme  

2007: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Program Distinguished Contributor Interview: James Flynn [vimeo id="5153539" width="620" height="360"] ISIR Distinguished Interview: James Flynn from Timothy Bates on Vimeo. Invited Speaker: Robert Plomin Awards Photo Gallery  

2007 John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology

Dylan Molenaar Biosketch: Dylan Molenaar studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Due to his mathematical orientation he got interested in statistical models to describe human behavior. Therefore, he specialized in methodology and psychometrics at the Department of Psychological Methods, where he completed his Master’s thesis on modeling of ability distributions.  In May 2007, he received a personal grant from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research for his PhD project entitled "Statistical modeling of (cognitive) ability differentiation". He will be working on this project for four years under the supervision of Conor ...

2007 ISIR Templeton Prize for Best Student Paper

Joni Lakin Biosketch: Joni Lakin is a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology at the University of Iowa. For the past four years, she has worked with Dr. David Lohman on the Cognitive Abilities Test. She received her B.S. in Applied Psychology at Georgia Tech working with Drs. Phillip L. Ackerman and Ruth Kanfer on knowledge and skill acquisition in adults. Her current research interests include the construction and validation of measures of abilities and other aptitudes for learning, with a particular interest in the participation of women in STEM careers. Representative Publications Lohman D.F., & Lakin, J.M. Consistencies in sex differe...