Associate Professor, Special Education
Founding Member and Vice President of Communications: Providing Opportunities for Women in Education Research (POWER)
Cohost of developmental science podcast Within and Between
Email: jessica.logan@vanderbilt.edu
Website: www.jarlogan.com
Education:
Middle Tennessee State University, 2002
B.U.S.
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, 2005
M.S. Research Psychology
Florida State University, 2009
Ph.D. Developmental Psychology
Jessica Logan is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Dr. Logan’s research seeks to improve the research practices of researchers in the field of children’s learning and development, with specific focus on how statistical models and research designs can be used to answer complex questions about how children learn. Through applications of new methodologies such as Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials, planned missing data designs, and Quantile Regression analysis, her work simultaneously advances the fields of research methods and child development through purposeful collaboration. Dr. Logan’s is also focused on improving the research data management and data sharing practices of researchers in the learning and developmental sciences, thus encouraging transparency in science and improving statistical conclusion validity.