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Queries Faculty

Meet our Queries Faculty...



Cherie Avent

Dr. Cherie Avent
Assistant Professor

*Not accepting new students for
Fall 2026

  • Program Evaluation
  • Mixed Methods Research
  • Qualitative Research Methods

Dr. Sandra Camargo Salamanca
Postdoctoral Research Associate

(Does not accept advisees)

  • Validity Theory
  • Large Scale Assessment
  • Performance-based Assessment
Professor Jennifer Cromley

Dr. Jennifer Cromley
Professor

*Not accepting new students for
Fall 2026

  • Applied statistics
  • Analysis of small-scale classroom experiments
  • Applied longitudinal data analysis
  • Research Lab
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Dr. Melissa Goodnight
Assistant Professor &
Queries Division
Co-Chair

*Not accepting new students for
Fall 2026

  • Evaluation
  • Qualitative and mixed methods research
  • Transnational and comparative studies
  • Ethnography and fieldwork
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Dr. Justin Kern
Associate Professor &
Queries Division 
Co-Chair

*Not accepting new students for
Fall 2026

  • Measurement
  • Item response time modeling
  • Computerized adaptive testing
  • Item response tree modeling

Dr. Nia Mitchell
Assistant Professor

*Not accepting new students for
Fall 2026

  • Qualitative Research Methodologies
  • Program Evaluation
  • Mixed Methods

Dr. Courtney Stone
Assistant Professor

*Not accepting new students for
Fall 2026

  • Program Evaluation
  • Mixed Methods Research
  • Validity
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Dr. Yan Xia
Associate Professor

*Considering accepting new students for Fall 2026

  • Structural Equation Modeling
  • Categorical Data
  • Missing Data
Jinming Zhang

Dr. Jinming Zhang
Professor

*Not accepting new students for
Fall 2026


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