Lorey Wheeler Co-Director, Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics & Psychometrics Research Associate Professor, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families & Schools

2012, Ph.D., Family & Human Development, Arizona State University
1999, M.S., Family & Human Development, Arizona State University
1995, B.S., Psychology, Nebraska Wesleyan University

As a family and human developmentalist and an applied methodologist, my collaborative research program focuses on enhancing lives via three central questions: (a) what family strengths proximally promote health and development; (b) how do larger social structures distally promote or inhibit health and development; and (c) what methods best address theoretical and public health issues in understanding the promotion/inhibition of health and development? My research spans multiple developmental periods (e.g., childhood, adolescence, adulthood), proximal and distal contexts (e.g., family, workplaces, schools), macro forces (e.g., gender, culture, systems of oppression), and outcomes (e.g., psychosocial and educational adjustment, physical health, relationships). My research has the unique opportunity to make contributions through my efforts to understand the intersections between families and larger social contexts that shape health and development primarily among Latinx families, a large and growing population in the U.S., but underrepresented in family, psychological, and developmental literatures. As an applied methodologist, my expertise includes experimental, dyadic, and longitudinal designs, with statistical expertise in missing data, latent growth modeling, latent class analysis, multilevel modeling, dyadic data analysis, and structural equation modeling.

Areas of Expertise:

    EDPS 900A - Correlational and Experimental Methods in Educational Research
    EDPS 998 - Special Topics: Grant Writing I
    EDPS 496 - Directed Field Experience