As a Psychometrician, Chris helps to create informative survey items and to refine the quantitative feedback provided to practitioners so that it is accurate and useful. Chris also provides support across UEI by advising researchers about applying analysis techniques and providing an accurate interpretation of results for their particular audience. Chris’s background is in developmental psychology, a field where he has published on how to identify skills and choose among competing theories of cognition by comparing statistical models. Prior to joining the UChicago Consortium, he helped to develop an assessment system that pre-kindergarten teachers used to measure their students’ proficiencies in mathematical and literacy skills through play, and improve them. Chris focuses on using data to understand change over time. He hopes to build tools that measure and promote healthy schools and that help students to grow beyond expectations of past trends. He can be found running the lake shore path, occasionally with a dog.
