He is the Principal Investigator on a Carnegie Foundation grant to study Vertical Scaling, and Co-PI on two NSF-funded projects at CU-Boulder: the Learning Assistant model for Teacher Education in Science and Technology (LA-TEST) and Undergraduate Science Course Innovations and their Impact on Student Learning (UCI). Prof. Briggs is a psychometrician by training and an expert in applied statistics and educational measurement. One of his primary research interests is in the application of learning progressions to the design and analysis of educational assessments. His published research includes studies on diagnostic assessment, meta-analysis, and multidimensional measurement using item response theory.