Dissertation Prize

Overview December 17, 2019

The Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize recognizes at most one outstanding Ph.D. dissertation each year, written in any field covered by the journal Psychometrika. Criteria include the originality and rigor of the research, possible applications of the theory or methods and potential impact.

Eligible nominees must be members of the Psychometric Society and must have received their Ph.D. degree within the last year. Past winners appear below; full details are available here.

Year	Awardee	Details
2024	Gyeongcheol Cho	McGill University, Montreal, Canada Advisor: Heungsun Hwang Title:Constructs May or May Not Be Latent: Studies on Two Domains of Structural Equation Modeling
2023	Inhan Kang	The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Advisor: Roger Ratcliff Title: Psychometric Process Modeling: A Modeling Framework to Study Intra-individual Processes Underlying Responses and Response Times in Psychological Measurement
2022	James Balamuta	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA Advisor: Steven A. Culpepper Title: Bayesian estimation of restricted latent class models: Extending priors, link functions, and structural models
2022	Ummugul Bezirhan	Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Advisor: Young Sun Lee Title: Conditional dependence between response time and accuracy in cognitive diagnostic models
2021	Jonas Haslbeck	University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Advisor: Lourens J. Waldorp and Denny Borsboom Title: Modeling Psychopathology: From Data Models to Formal Theories
2020	Maarten Kampert	Leiden University, the Netherlands Advisor: Jacqueline Meulman Title: Improved Strategies for Distance Based Clustering of Objects on Subsets of Attributes in High-Dimensional Data
2019	Merijn Mestdagh	KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Advisor: Francis Tuerlinckx and Stijn Verdonck Title: Prediction and machine learning: Explorations in psychological methodology
2018	Sacha Epskamp	University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Advisor: Denny Borsboom Title: Network Psychometrics
2017	Maria Bolsinova	Utrecht University, Utrecht and Cito, Arnhem, the Netherlands Advisor: Gunter Maris and Herbert Hoijtink Title: Balancing Simple Models and Complex Reality: Contributions to Item Response Theory in Educational Measurement
2016	Stijn Verdonck	KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Advisor: Francis Tuerlinckx Title: Advances in choice response time modeling: Non-linearity, efficient computation, and non-decision time
2016	Yang Liu	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Advisor: David Thissen Title: Generalized fiducial inference for graded response models
2015	Michelle LaMar	University of California, Berkeley, USA Advisor: Sophia Rabe-Hesketh Title: Models for understanding student thinking using data from complex computerized science tasks
2014	Hye Won Suk	McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Advisor: Heungsun Hwang Title: Functional Generalized Structured Component Analysis
2013	Dylan Molennar	University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Advisor: Han van der Maas & Conor Dolan Title: Testing distributional assumptions in psychometric measurement models with substantive applications in psychology
2012	Brandon Turner	The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Advisor: Trisha Van Zandt Title: Likelihood-free Bayesian modeling
2011	Anna Brown	University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Advisor: Alberto Maydeu-Olivares Title: How item response theory can solve problems of ipsative data
2010	Rinke Klein Entink	University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands Advisor: Wim van der Linden & Jean-Paul Fox Title: Statistical Models for Responses and Response Times
2009	Bonne J. H. Zijlstra	University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands Advisor: Tom Snijders & Marijtje van Duijn Title: Random effects models for directed graphs with covariates
2008	Mariëlle Linting	Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands Advisor: Jacqueline J. Meulman Title: Nonparametric Inference in Nonlinear Principal Components Analysis: Exploration and Beyond
2007	Delphine Courvoisier	University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Advisor: Michael Eid Title: Unfolding the constituents of psychological scores: Development and application of mixture and multitrait-multimethod LST models
2006	Michael C. Edwards	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Advisor: David Thissen Title: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Confirmatory Item Factor Analysis
2005	Douglas Steinley	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, Champaign, Illinois, USA Advisor: Larry Hubert Title: Local optima in k-means clustering : What you don’t know may hurt you (or, is ignorance bliss?)
2004	Denny Borsboom	University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Advisor: Gideon Mellenbergh & Jaap van Heerden Title: Conceptual issues in psychological measurement
2003	Frank Rijmen	KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Advisor: Paul De Boeck Title: A mixed and mixture model perspective on item response theory
2002	Jean-Paul Fox	University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands Advisor: Cees Glas & Wim van der Linden Title: Multilevel IRT: A Bayesian perspective on estimating parameters and testing statistical hypotheses
2001	Bart-Jan van Os	Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands Advisor: Jacqueline J. Meulman & Larry J. Hubert Title: Dynamic programming for partitioning in multivariate data analysis
2000	Iwin Leenen	KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Advisor: Iven Van Mechelen Title: Models and algorithms for a deterministic decomposition of dichotomous data
1999	Garry Robins	University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Advisor: Philippa Pattison Title: Personal attributes in inter-personal contexts: statistical models for individual characteristics and social relationships
1998	Peggy May T. Hwang	The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Advisor: Michael Browne Title: Factor analysis of time series
1997	Anders Skrondal	University of Olso, Oslo, Norway Advisor: Petter Laake Title: Latent trait, multilevel and repeated measurement modelling with incomplete data of mixed measurement levels
1996	Hilde Huizinga	University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Advisor: Peter C.M. Molenaar Title: The Statistical Approach to Electromagnetic Source Localization in the Brain
1996	Wai Chan	University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA Advisor: Peter Bentler Title: Covariance structure analysis for ipsative data
1995	Jules Ellis	University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Advisor: Eddy E. Roskam Title: Foundations of latent variable models
1995	Yiu-Fai Yung	University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA Advisor: Peter Bentler Title: Finite mixtures in confirmatory factor-analytic models
1994	Patrick Groenen	Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands Advisor: Willem Heiser Title: The majorization approach to multidimensional scaling: some problems and extensions
1993	Carolyn J. Anderson	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA Advisor: Stanley Wasserman Title: The analysis of multivariate, longitudinal categorical data by log-multilinear models
1993	Eric Maris	KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Advisor: Paul De Boeck Title: Psychometric models for psychological processes and structures

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