David Kaplan

Ph.D.

Hilldale Professor and Richard L. Venezky WARF Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison

david.kaplan@wisc.edu

Full Bio

Department of Educational Psychology

David Kaplan is Hilldale Professor and Richard L. Venezky Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Kaplan holds affiliate appointments in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Population Health Sciences and the Center for Demography and Ecology.

Kaplan’s program of research focuses on developing Bayesian statistical methods for educational research. His work on these topics is directed toward applications to large-scale cross-sectional and longitudinal survey designs. 

Kaplan is an elected member of the National Academy of Education, a recipient of the Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 5), a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 5), a recipient of the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award, an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford., a fellow of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Information, and was a Jeanne Griffith Fellow at the National Center for Education Statistics.

Kaplan received his Ph.D. in education from UCLA in 1987.