Dr. Schmidt has been a professor for 17 years, and teaches courses in statistics, research methods, and item response theory (IRT) and Rasch measurement at the undergraduate and graduate level. Dr. Schmidt specializes in psychometrics, with specific focus on Rasch measurement and item response theory (IRT). Her research and interests include scale and test design and analysis, item features experimental design and analysis, and trait measurement in a wide variety of areas, including psychological, educational, health, and medical sciences.