Dr. Megan Kuhfeld is a Research Scientist at NWEA. Her research interests are in the fields of psychometrics, teacher effectiveness, and socio-emotional learning. She holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods in Education and a masters’ degree in statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was the recipient of the 2017 Brenda Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).​