Skibbe and Hope K. Gerde) of the Early Language and Literacy Investigations(ELLI) lab. He is an applied quantitative psychologist focused on assessment of early childhood (preschool and early elementary) literacy skills using contemporary statistical approaches to measurement and longitudinal methods.Dr. Bowles is PI of the Narrative Assessment Protocol (NAP) project, a four-year IES funded project to develop an assessment of children’s narrative skills- the ability to tell a story- that does not require transcribing.