Miguel A. Padilla holds a Ph.D. in research and evaluation methodology from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is associate professor of health and quantitative psychology in the Department of Psychology at Old Dominion University. Dr. Padilla has presented research at numerous professional conferences and has published extensively in various journals, including Educational and Psychological Measurement, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, and Applied Psychological Measurement.