Matthew R. Reynolds is a Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA. He received his PhD in Educational Psychology (School Psychology and Quantitative Methods) from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2008. He won the John B Carroll Award for most outstanding research methodology at the annual conference for the International Society for Intelligence Research in 2008 and won the KU School of Education Award for Promising Scholar in 2010. His research interests are in latent variable modeling, with particular interest in the applications of these models to structure and study the development of human cognitive abilities. He also has an interests in psychological assessment.