Tamlyn Lahoud

Tamlyn Lahoud is a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia in the Quantitative Methodology program. She completed her MSc in Statistics at Rhodes University where she became interested in Item Response Theory. Her research applies and extends psychometric models to integrate multimodal data, offering deeper insight into students’ skills, misconceptions, and response behaviors. She also develops methodological innovations to strengthen model precision in small-sample and adaptive testing contexts. Her work is grounded in a commitment to develop data-driven tools and measurement approaches that promote equity, support evidence-based decision making, and enhance teaching and learning across diverse educational contexts.