Jonathan Templin holds a joint appointment as a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education and as an Associate Research Professor in the Achievement and Assessment Institute at the University of Kansas. Dr. Templin received his Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also received an M.S. in Statistics. He joined the faculty of Kansas in January of 2014, having previously served on the faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The University of Georgia, and the Department of Psychology at University of Kansas.

The main focus of Dr. Templin's research is in the field of diagnostic classification models—psychometric models that seek to provide multiple highly reliable scores from psychological tests. Dr. Templin’s research program has been funded by the National Science Foundation and has been published in journals such as Psychometrika, Psychological Methods, Applied Psychological Measurement, and the Journal of Educational Measurement. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Psychometrika and Applied Psychological Measurement. Dr. Templin is a coauthor of the book Diagnostic Measurement: Theory, Methods, and Applications, which won the 2012 American Educational Research Association Division D Award for Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology. For more information and his curriculum vitae, please visit his website.