She earned an M.S. in Statistics from University of Georgia and Ph.D in Educational Research and Evaluation from Virginia Tech. She completed an Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) postdoctoral fellowship in the Georgia Measurement and Assessment Training Program at Georgia State University. She is currently the Rasch Measurement SIG chair (AERA), an Associate Editor for the Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) and Journal of Statistics Education (JSE) [the top two research journals in statistics education], and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment (JPA).