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Expert in Psychometrics & Quantitative Methods | Education & Psychology| PhD|15+ yrs experience

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I am a PhD-level researcher and consultant with over 15 years of experience in psychology, education, and social science research. I specialize in psychometrics, cognitive assessment, survey methodology, and advanced statistical modeling. My expertise includes structural equation modeling (SEM), multilevel regression, longitudinal data analysis, test construction, and cross-cultural educational measurement. I have extensively worked with data from international large-scale assessments such as TIMSS, PIRLS, PISA, and PIAAC. As a consultant and educator, I have supported research projects from study design to publication, developed analytical strategies for impact evaluations, data interpretation, and visualization. I also have experience supervising data collection and developing behavioral and cognitive testing protocols. My academic background includes teaching Master's and PhD-level courses on advanced statistical methods, psychometrics, and cognitive psychology. My academic work has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading Q1 journals in the fields of developmental psychology, educational research, and cognitive assessment. I offer consulting in research design, psychometric modeling, statistical analysis, visualization, and interpretation. I work fluently with R, Python, Stata, Mplus, Winsteps, and SPSS. I’m also experienced in systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Human Behavior & Psychology
• ☆ Cognitive Science
• ☆ Behavioral Genetics
• ☆ Developmental Psychology
• ☆ Educational Psychology
• ☆ Child Development
• ☆ Child Psychology
• ☆ Evaluation Methodology
• ☆ Social Studies Education
• ☆ Educational Statistics
• ☆ Educational Effectiveness
• ☆ Academic Testing
• ☆ Higher Education
• ☆ Early Childhood Education
• ☆ Middle School Education

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Meta-Research, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Work Experience

Independent Researcher

May 2023 - Present

Higher School of Economic

April 2009 - Present

Education

PhD in psychology

Psychological Institute of Russian Academy of Education

January 2018 - September 2020

(Psychology)

Sibirskij federal'nyj universitet

September 1990 - June 1996

Certifications

• Python for analysis data

  HSE University, Moscow

  January 2023 - Present

• Machine Learning

  HSE University, Moscow

  January 2022 - Present

• Mathematics for data analysis

  HSE University, Moscow

  January 2021 - Present

• Vertical scaling and growth modeling

  Institute of Education, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

  August 2019 - Present

• Bayesian Approach in Social Science

  by Laboratory of Comparative Social Studies, HSE, Moscow

  August 2019 - Present

• Analyzing Rating Data and Multilevel Rater Modelling Approaches

  Institute of Education, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

  July 2018 - Present

• Causal Models and Structural Equations

  Laboratory of Comparative Social Studies, HSE, Moscow

  July 2012 - Present

• Multilevel Analysis of Educational data to Inform Policy and Practice

  KSI Research International

  September 2010 - Present

• Analyzing International Database

  IERI Spring Academy

  May 2010 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Yulia Kuzmina, Anastasia Petrakova, Evgenia Lebedeva, Evgenia Yurchik (2024). Experience in Creating a Russian Database of Faces Expressing Various Emotions: The First Stage . Психология. Журнал Высшей школы экономики.

Юлия Кузьмина (2023). Psychometrics and Cognitive Research: Contradictions and Possibility for Cooperation . Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow.

Ю.В. Кузьмина, С.М. Авдеева, К.В. Тарасова, А.В. Попова, Я.А. Бициоха (2023). Digital Literacy, Cognitive Control and Student Use of Digital Devices . Psychological Science and Education.

Yulia Kuzmina, Alina Ivanova, Ilya Denisov(2023). Academic Achievement of First Graders with Inattentiveness and Hyperactivity in Classes with Various Academic Compositions . The Elementary School Journal. 123. (4). p. 538--562. University of Chicago Press

Yulia Kuzmina, Tatiana Tikhomirova, Artem Malykh, Irina Lysenkova, Sergey Malykh(2023). The development of number line accuracy in elementary school children: A cross‐country longitudinal study . British Journal of Educational Psychology. 93. (2). p. 423--436. Wiley

S. Malykh, S. Tarasov, I. Baeva, E. Nikulchev, P. Kolyasnikov, D. Ilin, I. Marnevskaia, A. Malykh, V. Ismatullina, Y. Kuzmina (2023). Large-scale study of the precision of the approximate number system: Differences between formats, heterogeneity and congruency effects . Heliyon.

Yulia Kuzmina, Sergey Malykh(2022). The effect of visual parameters on nonsymbolic numerosity estimation varies depending on the format of stimulus presentation . Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 224. p. 105514. Elsevier {BV}

Yulia Kuzmina, Inna Antipkina (2022). The Association between Approximate Number Sense (ANS) and Math Achievement Depends on the Format of the ANS Test . Journal of Cognition and Development.

Yulia Kuzmina, Tatjana Kanonire, Jeļena Ļubenko(2022). The Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reading Motivation on Reading Performance in Elementary School . Journal of Research in Childhood Education. 36. (1). p. 1--13. Informa {UK} Limited

Y. Kuzmina, A. Ivanova, G. Kanonirs(2021). Inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity, and mathematics: Exploring gender differences in a nonclinical sample . Research in Developmental Disabilities. 119. p. 104107. Elsevier {BV}

Malykh, S., Kuzmina, Y., Tikhomirova, T.(2021). Developmental Changes in ANS Precision Across Grades 1–9: Different Patterns of Accuracy and Reaction Time . Frontiers in Psychology. 12.

Yulia Kuzmina, Jérôme Prado, Tatiana Tikhomirova, Irina Lysenkova, Sergey Malykh (2020). Domain-general cognitive functions fully explained growth in nonsymbolic magnitude representation but not in symbolic representation in elementary school children . PLOS ONE.

Tikhomirova, T.N., Kuzmina, Y.V., Malykh, S.B.(2020). Trajectories of processing speed development across primary school years: Longitudinal study . Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal. 41. (2). p. 26-38.

Kuzmina, Y., Tikhomirova, T., Lysenkova, I., Malykh, S.(2020). Domain-general cognitive functions fully explained growth in nonsymbolic magnitude representation but not in symbolic representation in elementary school children . PLoS ONE. 15. (2).

Kanonire, T., Lubenko, J., Kuzmina, Y.(2020). The Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reading Motivation on Reading Performance in Elementary School . Journal of Research in Childhood Education.

Yulia Kuzmina, Tatiana Tikhomirova, Irina Lysenkova, Sergey Malykh(2019). The Relationship Between Non-symbolic and Symbolic Numerosity Representations in Elementary School: The Role of Intelligence . Frontiers in Psychology. 10. Frontiers Media {SA}

(2019). Grit . European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

(2019). The effect of phonological processing on mathematics performance in elementary school varies for boys and girls: Fixed‐effects longitudinal analysis . British Educational Research Journal.

(2019). Development of approximate number sense across the elementary school years: A cross‐cultural longitudinal study . Developmental Science.

Tikhomirova, T., Kuzmina, Y., Lysenkova, I., Malykh, S.(2019). Development of approximate number sense across the elementary school years: A cross-cultural longitudinal study . Developmental Science. 22. (4).

Kuzmina, Y., Ivanova, A., Kaiky, D.(2019). The effect of phonological processing on mathematics performance in elementary school varies for boys and girls: Fixed-effects longitudinal analysis . British Educational Research Journal. 45. (3). p. 640-661.

Tikhomirova, T., Kuzmina, Y., Lysenkova, I., Malykh, S.(2019). The Relationship Between Non-symbolic and Symbolic Numerosity Representations in Elementary School: The Role of Intelligence . Frontiers in Psychology. 10.

Loyalka, P., Zakharov, A., Kuzmina, Y.(2018). Catching the big fish in the little pond effect: Evidence from 33 countries and regions . Comparative Education Review. 62. (4). p. 542-564.

Kuzmina, Y., Ivanova, A.(2018). The effects of academic class composition on academic progress in elementary school for students with different levels of initial academic abilities . Learning and Individual Differences. 64. p. 43-53.

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Kuzmina, Yu.V.(2016). Big-frog-in-a-small-pond effect: Is it always good for a child to study in a strong class? . Psychology, Journal of the Higher School of Economics. 13. (4). p. 712-740.

Popov, D., Tyumeneva, Y., Kuzmina, Y.(2013). Typologization of Moscow first-year students: Who goes to capital higher education institutions? . Voprosy Obrazovaniya. 2013. (1). p. 205-231.

Tyumeneva, Y., Kuzmina, Y.(2013). What Russian high schools can teach in a year based on PISA-2009: Reading literacy . Voprosy Obrazovaniya. 2013. (1). p. 107-135.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Yulia Kuzmina, Tatiana Chirkina, Yulia Tyumeneva (2023). ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION: EFFECTIVELY MAINTAINED INEQUALITY .