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Contact Information

115 Illini Hall
725 S. Wright St.
M/C 374
Champaign, IL 61820

Professor

Research Interests

  • Psychometric models
  • Latent class models
  • Large-scale testing and assessment
  • Statistical computing

Education

  • PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, 2006
  • BS, Economics, Bowling Green State University, 2001

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Statistics
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Educational Psychology

Recent Publications

He, S., Culpepper, S. A., & Douglas, J. A. (2025). A sparse latent class model incorporating response times. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 78(3), 757-784. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12380

Liu, Y., & Culpepper, S. (2025). Designing Learning Intervention Studies: Identifiability of Heterogeneous Hidden Markov Models. Psychometrika, 90(4), 1258-1283. https://doi.org/10.1017/psy.2025.10024

Wayman, E. A., Culpepper, S. A., Douglas, J., & Bowers, J. (2025). A restricted latent class model with polytomous attributes and respondent-level covariates. Behaviormetrika. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41237-025-00271-8

Aguinis, H., & Culpepper, S. A. (2024). Improving Our Understanding of Predictive Bias in Testing. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(3), 402-414. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001152

Courey, K. A., Oswald, F. L., & Culpepper, S. A. (2024). Clearer Analysis, Interpretation, and Communication in Organizational Research: A Bayesian Guide. Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation, 29(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.7275/pare.1975

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