People | Research Methodology Consulting Center

Kyle Nickodem

Kyle Nickodem, director

Dr. Nickodem seeks to continuously improve the methodological rigor of education and human development research so decisions based on findings can be made with confidence. He does so through the creation of tools and resources to support researchers, providing consultations, and partnering with university-, school-, organization-, and community-based researchers on short- and long-term research and evaluation projects.

Methodological Areas: quasi- and experimental designs, survey design, psychometrics, longitudinal analysis, latent variable modeling, cost analysis

Pablo Vivas Corrales

Pablo Vivas Corrales, graduate research assistant

Pablo is a statistician and doctoral student in CEHD’s Quantitative Methods in Education program with vast experience in education research, methodological work, and consulting. He leverages modern data science techniques implemented through expert-level statistical software and upholds the highest standards of reproducible science.

Methodological Areas: foundational research design, survey design, data preprocessing, advanced analytics (e.g., multilevel models)

2025-26 Advisory Committee Members

Mohammed Abulela

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Educational Psychology; MetaMetrics

Methodological Areas:

Careless responding and rapid guessing, multilevel modeling in medical data, practice analysis, large language models in psychometrics

Haoran Li

Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology

Methodological Areas:

Single-case designs, Monte-Carlo simulation, meta-analysis, categorical and binary data, and clustered data

Landy Lu

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

Methodological Areas:

Qualitative research, event history analysis

Wenchao Ma

Associate Professor, Educational Psychology; the American Guidance Service Inc. and John P. Yackel Professor in Educational Assessment and Measurement

Methodological Areas:

Cognitive diagnosis models, machine learning and AI for measurement

Nathaniel Stewart

Assistant Professor, Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development; Carmen Starkson Campbell Endowed Fellow for Innovation in Teacher Development

Methodological Areas:

Critical educational policy analysis, critical quantitative methods