Todd Reeves, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department

Learning Innovation, Leadership and Technology

Research Interests

Assessment, teacher education and development, and educational technology.

Education

• Ph.D, Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation, Boston College
• M.A., Educational Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• B.A., Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Selected Classes

• ETR 430: Classroom Assessment in Elementary Education
• ETR 501: Proseminar in Educational Research and Evaluation
• ETR 520: Introduction to Educational Research
• ETR 521: Educational Statistics I
• ETR 522: Educational Statistics II
• ETR 528: Educational Assessment
• ETR 529: Principles of Educational Measurement
• ETR 530: Test Evaluation and Construction
• ETR 540: Survey Research Methods
• ETR 555: Technology-Enhanced Assessment
• ETR 592/792: Item Response Theory: Binary Response Models; Polytomous Item Response Theory Models; Instrument Design and Development
• ETR 720: Advanced Research Methods in Education
• ETR 722: Methods of Multivariate Analysis

Recent Papers

• Zhu, P., and Reeves, T. D. (2026). Decoding item fit statistics in generalized partial credit and graded response models. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 59(2), 140-161
• Ketsman, O., Kennedy, K. and Reeves, T. D. (2025). Interrogating an implementation filter: What constrains changes in teacher practice in response to professional development? Professional Development in Education, 51(8), 1875-1889.
• Reeves, T. D. (2024). Mostly stability and some change in lower-secondary pre-service teacher education in the United States from 1990-2018: Evidence from TALIS 2018. The Teacher Educator, 60(2), 247-266 .
• Reeves, T. D., Onder, Y. and Kraner, C. (2023). Validation and invariance of the Conceptions of Assessment-III Abridged (COA-IIIA) for pre-service and in-service teachers in the United States. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 35, 419-447 .

Honors and Awards

• Bob Lane Faculty Advocacy Award, Faculty Senate, Northern Illinois University, 2025
• Awardee, Omnibus Award, Mid-Western Educational Research Association, 2022
• Awardee, Top Reviewer: Social Sciences, Publons, 2017
• Awardee, Sentinels of Science Award: Social Science, Publons, 2016

Current Grant Work

• Project evaluator (with principal investigator Juan Colón Santana, and co-principal investigators Chetna Patel, James Petkus, and Heather Crapo), Coding-Driven Exploration for Chemical Education Modernization, Improving Undergraduate STEM Education, National Science Foundation, $396,032
• Co-project evaluator (with project evaluator Ximena Burgin, principal investigator Ralph Wheeler, and co-principal investigators Christine Nguyen, Tim Hagen and Jason Rhode), Scholarships and Enhanced Mentoring to Promote Equity and Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Scholarships for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, National Science Foundation, $1,999,999
• Project evaluator (with co-project evaluator Ximena Burgin and principal investigator Shavina Baker), Room to Grow: A Partnership to Improve Education to Workforce Pathways for Students from Rural Communities in Northwestern Illinois, Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development (RPED), Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, $2,105,848

Selected Service to the Profession

• Panelist, Directorate for STEM Education, Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, National Science Foundation
• Member-at-large, Mid-Western Educational Research Association
• Grant proposal reviewer, Scholars Program, William T. Grant Foundation
• External tenure and promotion reviewer, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University
• Division chair, Division D: Measurement and Research Methodology, Mid-Western Educational Research Association
• Member, Association Council, Mid-Western Educational Research Association