Todd D. Little

Todd D. Little is a Professor of Educational Psychology in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics (REMS) concentration in Educational Psychology at Texas Tech University.

Todd D Little
Born (1960-09-06) September 6, 1960
Kalispell, Montana
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Riverside
Known forDevelopmental Psychology
Spouse(s)Patricia H. Hawley
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, education
InstitutionsUniversity of Kansas
Yale University
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
University of California, Riverside
Boston University
California State University, San Bernardino
Doctoral advisorKeith. F Widman

Education

In 1983, Little received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from University of California, Riverside. He went on to pursue his doctorate degree in Developmental Psychology at University of California, Riverside. His doctoral thesis was titled Individual differences in the development of numerical facility : a production task paradigm.[1]

Career

Little was recruited to join TTU in 2013 to establish REMS (with Eugene Wang) as a program and to become the founding Director of the Institute for Measurement, Methodology, Analysis and Policy. Also in 2013, he was awarded an honorary professorship at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.[2]

Little is a specialist on various aspects of applied statistical methodology as well as his developmental research. He has provided methodological guidance at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.[3] Center for Lifespan Studies (1991-1998), Yale University’s Department of Psychology (1998-2002), and the University of Kansas’ (2003-2013), including the founding and directing of the Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis (2010-2013).

Outreach

Little organizes and co-teaches at an annual Stats Camp which he founded in 2003. The camp provides advanced training in state-of-the science statistical procedures to over 1500 graduates students, post-docs, and faculty from every continent.[4]

He started a minority scholarship program in partnership with SMEP which has supplied over $100,000 for travel, housing, and fees to allow minority scholars to attend Stats Camp. More recently, he also founded (with Noel Card) the Developmental Methods conference, an annual event for social science researchers.[5]

Research

Little is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)[6] as well as the American Psychological Association (APA Divisions 5, 7, & 15) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS).[7] In 2001, Little was elected to the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology. In 2009, he was elected President of the APS's Division 5 (then called Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics).[2]

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References
  1. "Individual differences in the development of numerical facility : a production task paradigm" (PDF). Riverside, California: University of California, Riverside. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  2. "Todd D. Little, Ph.D. | Faculty | Our People | College of Education | TTU". www.depts.ttu.edu. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  3. "Faculty Research Scientist,Center for Lifespan Psychology at Max Planck Institute for Human Development". Yale University. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  4. "StatsCamp.org | IMMAP Texas Tech University". Statistics Training Course. September 21, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  5. "Developmental Methods Conference". Developmental Methods. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  6. "Psychological Scientists Elected as AAAS Fellows". Observer Magazine.
  7. "APS Fellows". Association for Psychological Science. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
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