Publications

(2026). Behavioral threat assessment in nontraditional schools. JSC.
(2026). School team fidelity in behavioral threat assessment. JTAM.
(2025). How prevalent are adverse academic outcomes following a school threat assessment?. PSF.
(2025). When cluster-robust inferences fail. EPM.
(2025). Replication studies using secondary or nonexperimental datasets. School Psychology Review.
(2025). Reassessing weights in large-scale assessments and multilevel models. LSA.
(2025). Cluster-robust standard errors with three-level data. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods.
(2025). Behavioral threat assessment and equity in exclusionary school discipline. SPR.
(2025). Restorative justice conferences in elementary and secondary schools. Journal of School Violence.
(2025). Referral rates for school threat assessment. Psychology in the Schools.
(2024). The seasonality of school climate. School Psychology Review.
(2024). Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in school psychology science and scholarship: Changing training and practice in the field of school psychology. Canadian Journal of School Psychology.
(2024). School bullying and gender minority youth: Victimization experiences and perceived prevalence. School Psychology Review.
(2024). Having a trusted adult in school: Concurrent and predictive relations with internalizing problems across development. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions.
(2024). Positive student-teacher relationships and exclusionary discipline practices. Journal of School Psychology.
(2024). Steadfast implementation of restorative practices during the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of consultancy and leadership in an elementary school. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation.
(2023). The relationship between teacher stress and job satisfaction as moderated by coping. Psychology in the Schools.
(2023). Usability and social consequences of the early identification system as a universal screener for social, emotional, and behavioral risks.. School Psychology.
(2023). Using robust standard errors for the analysis of binary outcomes with a small number of clusters. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.
(2023). Practical multilevel modeling using R. SAGE Publications.
(2023). In-school and out-of-school suspension: Behavioral and psychological outcomes in a predominately black sample of middle school students. School Psychology Review.
(2023). Advanced categorical data analysis in prevention science. Prevention Science.
(2023). Accounting for heteroskedasticity resulting from between-group differences in multilevel models. Multivariate Behavioral Research.
(2022). Interaction of socioeconomic status and class relations on reading. Journal of Literacy Research.
(2022). Student perceptions of school resource officers and threat reporting. Journal of School Violence.
(2022). Examining the validity of the Early Identification System – Student Version for screening in an elementary school sample. Journal of School Psychology.
(2022). Evaluation of a bibliotherapy-based stress intervention for teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education.
(2022). Alternatives to logistic regression models in experimental studies. The Journal of Experimental Education.
(2021). Individual and school predictors of teacher stress, coping, and wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic. School Psychology.
(2021). High school graduation outcomes of student threat assessment. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth.
(2021). Does worrying matter? Priming and attitudes towards mask wearing in a midwestern state. SAGE Open.
(2021). Confirmatory factor structure and predictive validity of the Early Identification System—Student Report in a community sample of high school students. School Mental Health.
(2021). Authoritative school climate and out-of-school suspensions: Results from a nationally-representative survey of 10th grade students. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth.
(2021). An investigation of the psychometric properties of the Early Identification System–student report in a middle school sample. School Psychology.
(2021). Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in school psychology: Be the change. School Psychology Review.
(2020). The role of the perceptions of school climate and teacher victimization by students. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
(2020). Student threat assessment as an alternative to exclusionary discipline. Journal of School Violence.
(2020). Does teacher emotional exhaustion and efficacy predict student discipline sanctions?. School Psychology Review.
(2020). The relationship between school disciplinary resolutions with school climate and attitudes toward school. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth.
(2020). MANOVA: A procedure whose time has passed?. Gifted Child Quarterly.
(2019). Student and teacher perceptions on student-teacher relationship quality: A middle school perspective. School Psychology International.
(2019). Understanding family–school engagement across and within elementary- and middle-school contexts. School Psychology.
(2019). School threat assessment versus suicide assessment: Statewide prevalence and case characteristics. Psychology in the Schools.
(2019). School teasing and bullying after the presidential election. Educational Researcher.
(2019). An investigation of the psychometric properties of the Early Identification System–Student Report. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.
(2018). Multilevel modeling myths. SPQ.
(2018). The relationship of school climate with out-of-school suspensions. Children and Youth Services Review.
(2018). The effect of orthographic complexity on Spanish spelling in Grades 1–3. Reading and Writing.
(2018). Using cluster bootstrapping to analyze nested data with a few clusters. Educational and Psychological Measurement.
(2018). The impact of validity screening on associations between self-reports of bullying victimization and student outcomes. Educational and Psychological Measurement.
(2018). Racial/ethnic parity in disciplinary consequences using student threat assessment. School Psychology Review.
(2018). Bullying involvement, teacher-student relationships, and psychosocial outcomes. SPQ.
(2018). An examination of restorative interventions and racial equity in out-of-school suspensions. School Psychology Review.
(2017). The toxicity of bullying by teachers and other school staff. School Psychology Review.
(2017). Student Threat Assessment as a Standard School Safety Practice: Results From a Statewide Implementation Study.. School Psychology Quarterly.
(2017). Student Threat Assessment as a Standard School Safety Practice: Results From a Statewide Implementation Study.. School Psychology Quarterly.
(2017). Student attitudes and behaviors as explanations for the Black-White suspension gap. Children and Youth Services Review.
(2017). Racial/ethnic differences in perceptions of school climate and its association with student engagement and peer aggression. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
(2016). Question order affects the measurement of bullying victimization among middle school students. Educational and Psychological Measurement.
(2016). Aggressive attitudes and prevalence of bullying bystander behavior in middle school. Psychology in the Schools.
(2016). Alternatives to multilevel modeling for the analysis of clustered data. Journal of Experimental Education.
(2015). School counselor use of peer nominations to identify victims of bullying. Professional School Counseling.
(2015). Prevalence of aggressive attitudes and willingness to report threats in middle school. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.
(2014). Successive teacher expectation effects across the early school years. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
(2014). Predicting first grade reading achievement for Spanish-speaking kindergartners: Is early literacy screening in English valid?. Literacy Research and Instruction, 53, 269-286.
(2014). Multi-level multi-informant structure of the Authoritative School Climate Survey. SPQ.
(2014). Further understanding factors associated with grade retention: Birthday effects and socioemotional skills. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 35, 79-93.
(2014). Factors associated with lower case alphabet naming in kindergarteners. Applied Psycholinguistics, 35, 943-968.
(2014). Analyzing group level effects with clustered data using Taylor series linearization. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 19(13).
(2014). An investigation of factors associated with letter-sound knowledge at kindergarten entry. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 29, 182-192.
(2013). What are the odds of that? A primer on understanding logistic regression. Gifted Child Quarterly, 57, 197-204.
(2013). Perceived prevalence of bullying and teasing predicts high school dropout rates. Journal of Educational Psychology, 15, 138-149.
(2013). Birthday effects and preschool attendance. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28, 11-23.
(2012). The differential effects of preschool: Evidence from Virginia. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
(2012). The association of age and early literacy outcomes. Journal of Educational Research, 105, 431-441.
(2012). Pick your Poisson: Regression models for count data in school violence research. Journal of School Violence, 11, 187-206.
(2012). Effects of validity screening items on adolescent survey data. Psych Assess.
(2010). The role of socioeconomic status and school quality in the Philippines: Revisiting the Heyneman-Loxley effect. International Journal of Educational Development, 3, 288-296.
(2010). Authoritative school climate: High school practices associated with lower student bullying and victimization. Journal of Educational Psychology, 102, 483-496.
(2009). Is experience the best teacher? A multilevel analysis of teacher characteristics and student achievement in low performing schools. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability.
(2008). Corruption and educational outcomes: Two steps forward, one step back. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership.