@jsoland

Assistant Prof. @UVA & Research Fellow @NWEA. I study how (mis)uses of tests/surveys affect decisions in ed. & psychology. Father of two. Opinions mine.

 Charlottesville, VA
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Joined August 2011
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New article out thru @sreesociety w/ @edwkelly providing best practices for measurement modeling in program eval contexts. Free eprints below (50). Built from conversations w/ folks like @AndrewDeanHo @bendomingue @MeganKuhfeld @EdPolicyWorks tandfonline.com/eprint/6SGRQ…
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Congratulations to UVA EHD's Jim Soland on receiving the 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)! The award recognizes faculty who exemplify the highest standards of teaching, scholarship, and service. ow.ly/3kzh50UBPsP

News in Brief: Jim Soland Receives Outstanding Faculty Award

Soland is among 12 statewide recipients of the awards that recognize faculty who exemplify the highest standards of teaching, scholarship and service.

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Jim Soland@jsoland21 May 2024
New article out thru @sreesociety w/ @edwkelly providing best practices for measurement modeling in program eval contexts. Free eprints below (50). Built from conversations w/ folks like @AndrewDeanHo @bendomingue @MeganKuhfeld @EdPolicyWorks tandfonline.com/eprint/6SGRQ…
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Couldn't find much on how to deal with MNAR missingness in intensive longitudinal data, so this preprint was an attempt to repurpose some MNAR ideas from growth modeling into DSEM to handle MNAR missingness (with only a few extra lines of Mplus code) osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/h3…
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Check out this new article of mine on IRT models for quasi-experimental designs. Item Response Theory Models for Difference-in-Difference Estimates (and Whether They Are Worth the Trouble) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Item Response Theory Models for Difference-in-Difference Estimates (and Whether They Are Worth the...

When randomized control trials are not possible, quasi-experimental methods often represent the gold standard. One quasi-experimental method is difference-in-difference (DiD), which compares change...

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New print w/@MelissaGWolf on dynamic fit index cutoffs Our software can now derive customized cutoffs for ANY covariance structure model (SEM, mediation, bifactor, etc) and supports normal, non-normal, categorical, & missing data (and any estimator) 1/15 psyarxiv.com/4r9fq
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Please spread the info widely - We are hiring an assistant or associate level faculty member in education and neuroscience!! Join me and my wonderful colleagues and students @UVAEdu! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/130913 #AcademicTwitter
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We're hiring @UVAEdu @castl_uva! I'm looking for a Research Scientist w/ measurement skills to help design a vertically scaled literacy screener used statewide in VA. Pls share. uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UV… @emilyjsolari @EdPolicyWorks @DerekCBriggs @AndrewDeanHo @bendomingue
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Re-upping my NAEP Day threads for another NAEP Day. What's new? I expected signs of "recovery" (in the sense that 2020-2023 trends would be "less bad" than 2020-2022 and 2019-2022 trends). But it's worse. For those trying, be patient, give grace. For those ignoring, reprioritize.
Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo22 Oct 2022
Let's talk "misNAEPery": Common misues of #NAEP results. Here are 3 types of misNAEPery to look out for on Monday's "NAEP Day": 1) correlation-is-causation (@EduGlaze's original definition) 2) psychometric misNAEPery 3) one-true-outcome misNAEPery. 🧵 1/
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Like SAT/ACT scores, many people think I and other measurement folks @NCME38 would be resisting the ongoing attack on scores and indices. But we’re all for it! We know the fallibility of single-score systems better than anyone! Just don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
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@NYTHealth18 Jun 2023
Body mass index (or B.M.I.), which has long been criticized as a misleading health indicator, should no longer be used in isolation, according to a new announcement by the American Merdical Association. nyti.ms/3PjlhFb

Medical Group Says B.M.I. Alone Is Not Enough to Assess Health and Weight (Published 2023)

Body mass index has long been a standard, but controversial, measurement of weight and health.

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Are you an undergrad who is quant curious?!? Join us next week! Please retweet! tinyurl.com/4992sej2
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Thanks to all who came out for the @UVA Teaching and Public Service Awards ceremony. Congrats to all the awardees! @ProfRowley @svanHover @MJK_PhD
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S4E23. QuantCrit: A Conversation With Christen Priddie buzzsprout.com/639103 This week @ChristenPriddie of Indiana Univ. helps us learn about QuantCrit: foundations, purpose, and how it can enrich the quantitative process to which we might’ve become a little *too* accustomed.

Quantitude

A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without taking...

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Job alert! We are very excited to bring on a new colleague in early literacy @PennGSE. Please share this open search widely and feel free to reach out with any questions!
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I am hiring! For a 6-year PhD-position in quantitative psychology that also involves teaching: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsit… Follow me f you are interested but don't speak Dutch, because I have at least two more PhD-positions opening soon. Please share! Thx!
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Saturday at 8am (good morning!), Part 2 of our debate on "Foundational Competencies in Educational Measurement" continues, focusing on whether our framework is clear, compelling, and complete. #NCME23 higherlogicdownload.s3.amazo…
Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo3 Apr 2023
ICYMI, a video of our @NCME38 "Foundational Competencies" debate is here: vimeo.com/813353574. See you for Part 2 of the debate, focusing on the conceptual framework, at 8am in Chicago on 4/15, with @HamiltonLauraS, Alison Cheng, and David Torres Irribarra. #NCME23 #AERA23
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#AERA23 SEL and equity-Sat at 8 AM - Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: 2nd Level, Embassy Room @MikeStrambler @kimschon @drchriscip @O_K_Cook @drtianbarnes Anne Gregory @ShannonBWanless @AERA_SIG_SEL
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I'm hiring a 1yr postdoc for research on stat methodology for using text in randomized controlled trials: apply.interfolio.com/123767 Please don't self-select out! Long list of papers & "elite" schools aren't required. I'll read every application looking for potential. Please repost.
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📢Mark your calendars for 4/24 @ 12PM to hear from Sarah Peko-Spicer (@AIRInforms) share her research on Building a Critical Quantitative Practice. More details on our website! education.virginia.edu/event… @UVAEdu @UVABatten
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ICYMI, a video of our @NCME38 "Foundational Competencies" debate is here: vimeo.com/813353574. See you for Part 2 of the debate, focusing on the conceptual framework, at 8am in Chicago on 4/15, with @HamiltonLauraS, Alison Cheng, and David Torres Irribarra. #NCME23 #AERA23
Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo28 Mar 2023
This Thursday, 4-5:30ET, our @NCME38 Task Force on Foundational Competencies welcomes our first debate, at the #NCME23 virtual conference, with @DebbieDurrence, Leslie Keng, and VP Michael Walker providing commentary on our final report: ncme.org/about/news/educatio… @DerekCBriggs
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