Leah Feuerstahler

EDUCATION

• 2011 BS in Psychology
• 2015 MS in Statistics
• 2016 PhD in Quantitative/Psychometric Methods

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Item Response Theory
• Psychometric Model Specification, Fit, and Interpretation
• Nonparametric Methods
• Bayesian Statistics

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Feuerstahler, L. M., & Wilson, M. (in press). Scale alignment in the between-items multidimensional partial credit model. Applied Psychological Measurement.

Fischer, C. B., Ibrahim Puri, L., Macapagal, K., Feuerstahler, L. M., Ahn, J. R.*, & Mustanski, B. (in press). Competence to consent to oral and injectable PrEP trials among adolescent males who have sex with males. Aids and Behavior.

Feuerstahler, L. M. (in press). Metric stability in item response models. Multivariate Behavioral Research.

Feuerstahler, L. M., Waller, N. G., & MacDonald, A. W. (2020). Improving measurement precision in experimental psychopathology using item response theory. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 80, 695-725.

Saracino, R. M., Aytürk, E.*, Cham, H., Rosenfeld, B., Feuerstahler, L. M., & Nelson, C. J. (2020). Are we accurately evaluating depression in patients with cancer? Psychological Assessment, 32, 98-107.

Feuerstahler, L. M., & Wilson, M. (2019). Scale alignment in between-item multidimensional Rasch models. Journal of Educational Measurement, 56, 280-301.

Gold, J., Barch, D. M., Feuerstahler, L. M., Carter, C. S., MacDonald, A. W., Ragland, J. D., Silverstein, S. M., Strauss, M. E., & Luck, S. J. (2019). Working memory impairment across psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45, 804-812.

Feuerstahler, L. M., Luck, S. J., MacDonald, A., & Waller, N. G. (2019). A note on the identification of change detection task models to measure storage capacity and attention in visual working memory. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1360-1370.

Feuerstahler, L. M. (2019). Metric transformations and the filtered monotonic polynomial IRT model. Psychometrika, 84, 105-123.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Psychometric Society
• National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)