Her research areas include: methodological issues regarding growth modeling, multilevel modeling, and multivariate analyses and applications of these methods to studies of developmental change, language and literacy, intervention design, and math and science achievement in women and in underrepresented minorities. She has over 20 academic publications and 50 presentations in these areas. Janet is past president of the Mid-Western Educational Research Association and has been very involved in the Educational Statisticians and Multiple Linear Regression Special Interest Groups of the American Educational Research Association. She reviews for many journals and is currently on the editorial boards of the Educational Researcher and the Journal of Advanced Academics. She can be reached by email at: jholt@niu.edu.