D. Betsy McCoach, Ph.D. is the Anne Anastasi endowed chair of Psychometrics and Quantiative Psychology in the Psychology department at Fordham University. Dr. McCoach is the founder and Program Chair of the Modern Modeling Methods conference, which will next be held June 22-24, 2026 at Fordham University. Dr. McCoach has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books, including Instrument Design in the Affective Domain (2013) and Introduction to Modern Modeling Methods (2022). She is also co-editor of Multilevel Modeling Methods with Introductory and Advanced Applications (2022). Dr. McCoach is co-Principal Investigator for the National Center for Research on Gifted Education and has served as Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator on a variety of federally-funded research projects/grants, totaling over $30 million.  Dr. McCoach’s research interests include latent variable modeling, multilevel modeling, longitudinal modeling, instrument design, and gifted education.

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