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.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
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Github Skills (102)
epub10
spotify-api10
tidyverse10
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bookdown10
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swift10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wjakethompson/wjake
Dec 2017 - Jul 2026
Contributions:62 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 8 months
wjakethompson/taylor
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A comprehensive resource for data on Taylor Swift songs, and ggplot2 helper functions
Contributions:7 releases, 319 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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