Jake Thompson
Assistant Director Of Psychometrics at Accessible Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Systems (ATLAS)
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolJake Thompson is an experienced psychometrician and data scientist with a decade of applied measurement work, currently serving as Assistant Director of Psychometrics at ATLAS in Lawrence, Kansas. He leads psychometric research and the development of operational scoring and reporting systems, manages internal and public R packages (including measr), and supports a 20-state alternate assessment consortium. Proficient in R, RMarkdown, data visualization, and latent trait modeling, he combines hands-on programming with publication-oriented research and technical advisory communication. Pursuing a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of Kansas, he brings neuroscience-informed thinking from an earlier Behavioral Neuroscience degree to complex assessment design. Notably, he balances production scoring needs with open-source tooling development, ensuring research methods translate into operational practice.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
spotify-api10
tidyverse10
knitr10
spotify10
bookdown10
r10
atlas10
latex10
stan10
r-package10
psychometrics10
bayesian10
rstan10
rmarkdown10
dfa10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wjakethompson/tidyds-2021
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:41 PRs, 100 pushes, 43 branches in 4 months
wjakethompson/measr
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
R package for the Bayesian estimation of diagnostic classification models using Stan
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 251 commits in 1 year 6 months
cognitive-diagnosisdcmrstanclassificationr-package
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