Paulina completed her PhD in the Quantitative Methods area of the Educational Psychology Department at UW-Madison. Her research interests include flexible hierarchical modeling for repeated measures data and Bayesian model assessment and comparison, with an emphasis on their application to the meta-analysis of single-case designs. She is currently working as a post-doctoral scholar at the Tennessee Reading Research Center (TRRC) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. At the TRRC, Paulina contributes to literacy research by supporting data cleaning, analysis, visualization, and writing. Prior to joining the TRRC, she conducted research across UW Madison’s departments of educational psychology, nursing, pharmacy, and social work. She has also taught upper-elementary special education.
Education
- PhD in Quantitative Methods | 2026 (expected)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests
- Meta-analysis
- Bayesian methods
- Model assessment
- Hierarchical models
- Single-case experimental designs