He received his PhD in educational psychology (school psychology and quantitative methods) from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. His research interests are in latent variable modeling, with particular interest in the applications of those models to structure and study the development of human cognitive abilities. He also has interests in psychological assessment. Dr. Reynolds is currently on the editorial boards for Intelligence, the Journal of School Psychology, and Psychoeducational Assessment. In 2008 he won the John B Carroll award for most outstanding research methodology at the annual conference for the International Society for Intelligence Research and in 2010 won the KU School of Education award for Promising Scholar.