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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning |
| Keywords | International large scale assessments, Applied statistics, Causal inference in observational studies, Bayesian statistical methods, Quantitative methodology |
| Honours and awards | 2018: Samuel J. Messick Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (APA, Division 5), 2017: President, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology 2016: Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, School of Education 2016: Research Fellow: German Institute for International Educational Research 2015: Elected Member: National Academy of Education 2015: Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford 2015: Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Madison |
| Institution | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Institute | Department of Educational Psychology |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Eckhard Klieme | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation (DIPF), Frankfurt am Main |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/2015 |
Programme(s)
| 2014 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Kaplan is an internationally recognized expert in Bayesian statistics, causal inference as well as statistical applications in large-scale assessment. He developed Bayesian statistical modeling for the needs of educational research and provided tools for making these methods accessible. In Germany, he continues his research on Bayesian statistical methods and their application to large-scale educational survey data. |