Assistant/Associate Professor

Position: Assistant/Associate Professor - Psychometrics and Quantitative Methods

Department: Educational Psychology

About the Role

The Department of Educational Psychology seeks applicants for a nine-month tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in our Quantitative, Qualitative, and Psychometric Methods (QQPM) program beginning August 2027.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining an on-going program of methodological research leading to publications in major quantitative, psychometric, statistical, and/or methodological journals.
• Collaborating with faculty across the College of Education and Human Sciences, UNL, and the University of Nebraska system on methodological issues related to substantive research projects.
• Effective instruction, student research advisement, and student mentoring.
• Participating in faculty governance.
• Participating in and/or preparing applications for external funding.
• Providing leadership and service at local, state, and national levels.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Doctorate in psychometrics, measurement, quantitative methods, or a related field to be completed no later than August 2027.
• Expertise or interest in modern psychometrics (e.g., modern issues in testing, large language models, fairness, equating, computerized adaptive testing, diagnostic classification models, automatic item generation, scale/test development).
• Expertise or interest in latent variable modeling approaches (e.g., IRT, SEM, person-centered analysis, factor analysis).
• Expertise or interest in multilevel modeling, and/or a related approach.
• Research productivity and an emerging publication record.
• Potential for excellence in teaching and mentoring graduate and/or undergraduate students.

Preferred Qualifications

• Record of scholarly publications commensurate to faculty rank.
• Evidence of success in pursuing and securing external funding.
• Experience or interest in methodological applications relevant to the areas of applied statistics, causal inference, non-parametric and/or categorical data, Bayesian estimation and/or inference, and/or program evaluation.

How to Apply

Click “Apply for this Job,” complete the Faculty/Academic Administrative Information Form, and attach the following documents:

• Letter of application.
• Current curriculum vitae.
• Contact information for three professional references.
• Three samples of scholarly writing. Combine into a single document and attach as “Other Document."

In addition, arrange for three reference letters with contact information to be sent by the review date (11/16/2026) to Dr. James Bovaird, QQPM Search Committee Chair, either by mail (114 Teachers College Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0345) or email (jbovaird2@unl.edu) sent directly from the reference.