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Jeffrey M. Williams, PhDAssociate Research ProfessorPhone: 813-974-7630 |
Research Interests:
Modeling factors in preschool that predict children’s later performance in kindergarten
Dr. Williams is an Associate Research Professor at the ßÙßÇÂþ» in the Department of Child and Family Studies. He joined USF in 2017 as part of the new Rightpath Research and Innovation Center.
Dr. Williams has extensive experience in research design, data collection methods, and data analysis in educational settings. His work has primarily focused on modeling the factors in preschool that predict children’s later performance in kindergarten. His interests also include data analytic strategies for bilingual development of emergent literacy; identifying and implementing data collection strategies that improve accuracy and efficiency; and incorporating the use of geospatial data into intervention and research in educational settings. As a quantitative methodologist, he aims to provide a wide variety of data analytic tools, including factor analysis and structural equations modeling, item response theory, multi-level and growth-curve modeling, and latent class analysis.