Steven Chesnut, PhD

Steven Chesnut, PhD
Associate Professor/Biostatistician
Nursing and Health Studies

Contact Info
816-235-6353

About

Dr. Steven Chesnut is an Associate Professor and Biostatistician in the Nursing Ph. D. program. He completed his Ph. D. in Educational Psychology, with an extensive focus on measurement, methodology, and statistics in 2015 at Texas Tech University. Since then, Dr. Chesnut has taught graduate-level research courses and provided statistical expertise at the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of South Dakota, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City in latent variable modeling, longitudinal SEM, IRT, hierarchical/multilevel modeling, and other parametric and non-parametric techniques. Although he is focused on improving the application of statistics in emerging areas of research, his program of research has focused on teacher development, early childhood behavioral and academic outcomes, and the development of teacher-student relationships in the classroom.

Education

B.S.Ed., University of Oklahoma

M.S.Ed., University of Oklahoma

Ph.D., Texas Tech University