Cindy M. Walker
President and CEO
Cindy has been consulting on statistical, evaluation and diverse analytic projects for 20+ across a variety of clients and organizations This includes the complete data collection and analytic process from custom data collection tools, such as tests and surveys, to modern analytics, including machine learning based predictive modeling.
She has:
- Served as director and lead consultant on hundreds of research analytic projects for a wide variety of industries including large school districts, higher education, healthcare, non-profit organizations, and industry.
- Worked on multi-year studies funded by large federal or state grants. This has included National Institute of Health funded grants to develop the Numeric Understanding in Medicine Instrument.
- Conducted research for Microsoft to determine if the scaling of their certification exams could be improved.
- Authored dozens of peer-reviewed academic publications (see Google Scholar).
- Co-Authored the definitive guide Categorical Data Analysis for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
- Served as Professor of Educational Psychology and the Director of the Consulting Office for Research and Evaluation (CORE) for the University of Wisconsin System.
- Served as Vice President of Division D of American Educational Research Association (AERA
- Taught numerous courses in scale development, psychometrics, measurement, assessment, program evaluation, statistics, and research design.
- A unique ability and qualifications from her academic and teaching experience to simplify complex ideas so that they are more easily understood, and recognize when simple solutions vs complex solutions are needed.
Cindy earned a PhD in Quantitative and Evaluative Research Methodologies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a MS in Mathematics from Illinois State University, and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, from Roosevelt University.