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Biography
Ben Domingue is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University with research interests in psychometrics and quantitative methods. He is interested in how statistical tools can be used to better understand psychological and educational outcomes—e.g., what is this child’s reading ability?—that are challenging to measure and yet ubiquitous in education as well as the social and biomedical sciences more generally. To that end, he is leading development of a data resource (the Item Response Warehouse) meant to increase the availability and accessibility of data for psychometrics research.
Other titles
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
Associate Professor (By courtesy), Sociology
Member, Bio-X
Program affiliations
DAPS
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Data Science
(MS) EDS
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Research interests
Assessment & Evaluation | Child and Adolescent Development | Data Science Education | Early Childhood Education & Development | Education Policy | Quantitative Methods
Recent publications
Ma, W. A., Liu, Y., Kanopka, K., Ma, W., & Domingue, B. W. (2026). A comparison of the predictive performance of continuous and class-based latent trait models. Psychological Methods.
Domingue, B. W., Braginsky, M., Caffrey-Maffei, L., Gilbert, J. B., Kanopka, K., Kapoor, R., … Frank, M. C. (2025). An introduction to the Item Response Warehouse (IRW): A resource for enhancing data usage in psychometrics. Behavior Research Methods, 57(10), 276.
Gilbert, J. B., Himmelsbach, Z., Soland, J., Joshi, M., & Domingue, B. W. (2025). Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with item-level outcome data: Insights from Item Response Theory. JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT.
