Queries Faculty

Dr. Cherie Avent
Assistant Professor

• Program Evaluation
• Mixed Methods Research
• Qualitative Research Methods

Dr. Sandra Camargo Salamanca
Postdoctoral Research Associate

(not accepting advisees)

• Validity Theory
• Large Scale Assessment
• Performance-based Assessment

• Applied statistics
• Analysis of small-scale classroom experiments
• Applied longitudinal data analysis
• Research Lab

Dr. Melissa Goodnight
Assistant Professor &
Queries Division Co-Chair

• Evaluation
• Qualitative and mixed methods research
• Transnational and comparative studies

• Measurement
• Item response time modeling
• Computerized adaptive testing
• Ideal point modeling

Dr. Yan Xia
Assistant Professor

• Structural Equation Modeling
• Categorical Data
• Missing Data

Dr. Jinming Zhang
Professor

• Cognitive Diagnosis and Adaptive Learning
• Large-scale Assessment and Computerized Adaptive Test
• Psychometrics and Measurement Theory