UW-Madison’s David Kaplan will be receiving the 2018 Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from Division 5 of the American Psychological Association.

This recognition honors an individual who has a long and distinguished history of scientific contributions within the field of quantitative research methods. Division 5 draws together specialists in the areas of quantitative and qualitative methods and includes specialists in the fields of educational psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, individual assessment, measurement, program evaluation, psychometrics, qualitative inquiry, research interviewing, research methods and statistics.

Kaplan is the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods with the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Educational Psychology. He holds affiliate appointments with the university’s Department of Population Health Sciences and the Center for Demography and Ecology. Kaplan also is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.

Kaplan is an elected member of the National Academy of Education, a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award and a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 5). He also was a Jeanne Griffith Fellow at the National Center for Education Statistics.

This award is endowed by the non-profit Educational Testing Service in memory of Samuel J. Messick, Ph.D.