Associate Professor
IPT, EIME
Office: 150-F MCKB
Phone: 801-422-2637
Email: nope@Ross.Larsen@byu.edumsn.com
Dr. Larsen received his undergraduate and masters degree in statistics at BYU. He furthered his education by studying Educational Psychology with an emphasis on Research and Measurement at Texas A & M where he got his PhD. He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher and researcher scientist at the University of Virginia and as an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is happy to be teaching here at BYU.
One of my primary strengths is enthusiasm in the teaching of statistics. It is truly exciting to share my knowledge with others so they, too, can analyze data and make decisions based on data. Statistics can be fun when taught well, and this can relieve the anxiety that many students enter the class with.
My research encompasses much of what confronts a social scientist when they are analyzing data and validating theory. Two defining themes that motivate my research are: (a) common methodological social science issues and (b) comprehensive structural equation modeling.
Investigating quality indicators of early childhood education programs in Kosovo, Ukraine and Finland
Elementary Teacher Characteristics, Experiences, and Science Subject Matter Knowledge: Understanding the Relationships through Structural Equation Modeling
Validating a blended teaching readiness instrument for primary/secondary preservice teachers
Why do faculty resist change?
Temporal flexibility, gender, and online learning completion
“Stop doing that!”: Effects of teacher reprimands on student disruptive behavior and engagement.
Effects of middle school teachers' praise-to-reprimand ratios on students' classroom behavior
Measuring Teacher Beliefs About Coding and Computational Thinking
Low base rates and a high IQ selection threshold prevented Terman from identifying future Nobelists
Measuring cultural aspects of teacher-child interactions to foster equitable developmental opportunities for young Latino children
An ecological analysis of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in K-1 Mexican classrooms
Examination of teacher–child interactions in early childhood education programmes in the United Arab Emirates
Effects of teachers' praise-to-reprimand ratios on elementary students’ on-task behaviour.
Test-enhanced learning and incentives in biology education
DECISION-BASED LEARNING IN MULTIPLE REGRESSION AND STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING COURSES
Exploring a bidirectional model of executive functions and fluid intelligence across early development
Substituting open educational resources for commercial curriculum materials: Effects on student mathematics achievement in elementary schools
Teacher praise and reprimands: The differential response of students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders.
Teacher praise-to-reprimand ratios: Behavioral response of students at risk for EBD compared with typically developing peers.
Adolescent sports participation and parent perceptions of resilience: A comparative study
K-12 blended teaching readiness: Model and instrument development
Exploring diurnal cortisol rhythms of Kindergarten teachers in Kosovo and Ukraine
Associations between effortful and automatic aspects of self-regulation in kindergarten children.
Blended teaching readiness: Phase 2 – instrument development
Exploring longitudinal changes in teacher expectancy effects on children's mathematics achievement
Exploring the potential of LMS log data as a proxy measure of student engagement.
Piecewise Propensity Score Analysis: A New Method for Conducting Propensity Score Matching with Polytomous Ordinal Independent Variables
Personal and contextual factors associated with growth in preschool teachers' self-efficacy beliefs during a longitudinal professional development study
Evaluating paraeducator-led reading interventions in elementary school: A multi-cutoff regression-discontinuity analysis.
The impact of a Flipped Classroom Model of Learning on a large undergraduate statistics class
Effects of CW-FIT on teachers’ ratings of elementary school students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders
Evaluating the Impact of Social Media Marketing on Online Course Registration
Monitoring academic and social skills in elementary school: A psychometric evaluation of the Classroom Performance Survey.
Investigating student engagement in blended learning settings using experience sampling and structural equation modeling.
Social and psychological factors associated with adolescent physical activity.
Unpacking intervention effects: Teacher responsiveness as a mediator of perceived intervention quality and change in teaching practice.
A Multi-method Approach for Describing the Contributions of Student Engagement on Fifth Grade Students' Social Competence and Achievement in Mathematics
How positive processes function in negative relationships: Dispositional gratitude moderates the association between affective need and frequency of dating violence victimization
Direct and Indirect Effects of Principal Leadership on Teacher Quality and Mathematics Achievement in the Context of the Responsive Classroom Approach
Self-regulation across different contexts: Findings in young Albanian children.
An ecological perspective on literacy skills in German third graders: Examining the role of student and context characteristics.
To What Extent Do Teacher–Student Interaction Quality and Student Gender Contribute to Fifth Graders’ Engagement in Mathematics Learning?
The impact of participation in the Advanced Placement program on students' college admissions test scores
Reading and spelling skills in German third graders: Examining the role of student and context characteristics
Observing children's interactions in kindergarten classrooms: The Individualized Classroom Assessment Scoring System
Mathematical knowledge for teaching, standards-based mathematics teaching practices, and student achievement in the context of the responsive classroom approach
Engagement in Training as a Mechanism to Understanding Fidelity of Implementation of the Responsive Classroom Approach
Developmental trajectories of aggression, prosocial behavior, and social–cognitive problem solving in emerging adolescents with clinically elevated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms.
Perspectives of self-regulation among young children in Kosovo: Do parents', teachers', and assessor reports' differ from direct measures?
Bidirectional associations between perceived parental support for violent and nonviolent responses and early adolescent aggressive and effective nonviolent behaviors.
A Multi-Experimental Examination of Analyzing Mouse Cursor Trajectories to Gauge Subject Uncertainty
Trajectories of life satisfaction during middle school: Relations to developmental‐ecological microsystems and student functioning
The link between Responsive Classroom training and student-teacher relationship quality in the fifth grade: A study of fidelity of implementation
Evaluating a proposed modification of the Guttman rule for determining the number of factors in an exploratory factor analysis
Efficacy of the Responsive Classroom Approach: Results From a 3-Year, Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial
Does the responsive classroom approach affect the use of standard-based mathematics teaching practices?
The influence of fidelity of implementation on teacher-student interaction quality in the context of a randomized controlled trial of the Responsive Classroom approach.
Perceived Accuracy of Popular Culture Magazine Content and Perceptions of Female Sexual Response: A Pilot Study
Applying New Methods to the Measurement of Fidelity of Implementation: Examining the Critical Ingredients of the Responsive Classroom Approach in Relation to Mathematics Achievement.
A comparison of multiple-strategy methods: Effects on fouth-grade students'general and content-specific reading comprehension and vocabulary development
Examining the impact of teach quality on fourth-grade students' comprehension and content-area acheivement
Integrated prioritized comprehension and vocabulary strategies in social studies: An examination of the relative effects of different models.
Validation of an Exercise Instrument for US-Mexico border Spanish Speakers
Factor structure and psychometrics of the Adolescent Health Risk Behavior survey instrument
Survey measuring elementary teacher’s implementation of standards-based Mathematics teaching: A psychometric analysis