Neal Martin Kingston

Dr. Kingston joined KU's Department of Educational Psychology in 2006 from CTB/McGraw-Hill. In addition to his academic position, he serves as Director of the Achievement and Assessment Institute (AAI) and Vice Provost, Jayhawk Global and Competency-Based Education. His research focuses on large-scale assessment, with particular emphasis on how it can better support student learning through the use of learning maps and diagnostic classification models. He has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over 250 research grants. Of particular note was the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment grant from the US Department of Education, which was at that time was the largest grant in KU history and which currently serves 23 state departments of education.

Dr. Kingston is known internationally for his work, and has served as a consultant or advisor for organizations including AT&T, College Board, Department of Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing, General Equivalency Diploma (GED), Kaplan, the National Council on Disability and the U.S. Department of Education.

Learn more about Neal Kingston on the Department of Educational Psychology website.