Sonja Winter

Professor Winter’s scholarship focuses on advancing quantitative methods in education research, with particular emphasis on improving the utility and interpretability of Structural Equation Models (SEMs) for complex data (e.g., ordinal or mixed indicators). She has published papers in Psychological Methods, Structural Equation Modeling: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Psychometrika.

Winter received her Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics from the University of California, Merced. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Missouri Prevention Science Institute at the University of Missouri, where she contributed to interdisciplinary projects aimed at strengthening methodological rigor in studies of educational and behavioral outcomes. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Statistics, Measurement, and Evaluation in Education program in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Missouri. In this role, Winter teaches graduate-level courses on Structural Equation Modeling, Foundations of Educational Measurement, and Bayesian Statistics.