My Research Interests:

I am interested in issues in psychological and educational measurement, especially those applied to language and literacy. I pursue this interest in three main ways in my research.

First, I am interested in empirically testing theory. If our ideas about psychology, intervention, and learning have validity, we should be able to find measurable evidence of those theories. Such examinations are most informative when we can weigh evidence of competing theories against each other to see which theories best describe what we observe.

Second, most phenomena in education and psychology occur over time and within a social context. For example, we may observe multiple tests per child or multiple children per classroom. I am interested in multilevel statistical models to disentangle social and contextual effects from the typical level of observation. Often, this can entail different types of measurement and theory at each level, such as those for individual learning versus those for instructional or social groups.

Third, I am interested in language and literacy. My past research has been in bilingualism and second language learning, where we might expect interesting and potentially complex patterns of skills across languages. Currently, I am involved in projects involving students with dyslexia, deafness, and non-standard dialects. Differences due to these characteristics can be complex, and can suggest ways to improve instruction and student learning.

For more details on my research, please see my pages on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu:

http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XHdBo3gAAAAJ

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lee_Branum-Martin

https://gsu.academia.edu/LeeBranumMartin