Lesa Hoffman, Ph.D.

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Academic Appointment as of Spring 2026: Eugene T. Moore Distinguished Professor Learning Sciences Program Department of Education and Human Development College of Education, Clemson University Google Scholar Page Contact Information: Email: LesaH@Clemson.edu Office Location: 213 Tillman Hall Office Hours for Spring 2026: coming soon! Mailing Address: Clemson University 101 Gantt Circle Clemson, SC 29634
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. –Aristotle
Biosketch: I received my Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Kansas in 2003, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at The Pennsylvania State University before joining the Department of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an Assistant Professor in 2006 (and as an Associate Professor in 2011). From August 2014 to December 2018 I was an Associate Scientist in the Research Design and Analysis (RDA) Unit of the Lifespan Institute and an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Child Language Doctoral Program. From January 2019 to December 2025 I was a Professor in the Educational Measurement and Statistics Program in the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations in the College of Education at the University of Iowa. In January 2026 I began a new appointment as a Eugene T. Moore Distinguished Professor in the Learning Sciences Program within the Deparment of Education and Human Development in the College of Education at Clemson University. My program of research seeks to empirically examine and to thoughtfully disseminate how developments in quantitative methodology can best be utilized to advance empirical work in the social sciences, with particular focus on the real-world behavior of longitudinal models, multilevel models, and structural equation models. I teach graduate courses and intensive workshops on advanced quantitative methods, such as general linear models, longitudinal models, multilevel models, and latent trait measurement and structural equation models; all materials for these courses (including videos) are freely available online. Please visit the pages above for more information about my research and teaching, as well as supplemental resources for my textbook on longitudinal analysis of within-person fluctuation and change (with a second edition in progress).