Meet the QME faculty

Ernest Davenport is an associate professor who teaches courses in measurement, statistics, and data analysis. He received his Ph.D. from the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina located in Chapel Hill, N.C., in quantitative psychology with a minor in biostatistics. His research interests include correlates of academic achievement (especially related to mathematics) and mathematical artifacts of statistical procedures.

Mark Davison is the American Guidance Service, Inc. and John P. Yackel Professor of Educational Assessment and Measurement. He teaches courses in educational measurement and accountability, co-directs the Minnesota Interdisciplinary Training in Educational Research (MITER), a federally funded pre-doctoral training program, and is the editor of Applied Psychological Measurement.

Robert delMas is a professor of educational psychology who teaches courses in quantitative methods. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in educational psychology.

Michelle Everson is a lecturer of educational psychology. She teaches introductory and intermediate statistics courses, both online and in the classroom, and she supervises the teaching assistants who work with our graduate-level introductory course (EPSY 5261). She received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in educational psychology and an M.A. in psychology from San Jose State University.

Joan Garfield is professor of educational psychology and directs the concentration in statistics education. She teaches courses on teaching and learning statistics. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in educational psychology and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota in mathematics education.

Michael Harwell is a professor of educational psychology and is part of the statistics concentration in QME. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and teaches courses in statistics and research design. He is also co-principal investigator of a study investigating the impact of high school mathematics curricula on student’s college mathematics performance.

Frances Lawrenz is professor of educational psychology and directs the concentration in evaluation. She teaches courses on evaluation and qualitative methods. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in education with chemistry and mathematics as related fields.

Jeff Long is an associate professor of educational statistics and is part of the statistics concentration in QME. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in quantitative psychology under the direction of Norm Cliff.

Michael Rodriquez is an associate professor of educational psychology and is coordinator of quantitative methods in education. He teaches courses in measurement and evaluation. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in measurement in quantitative methods. He is the director of the Office of Research Consultation.

Andy Zieffler is a lecturer in educational psychology. He teaches courses in statistics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in educational psychology.