S. Natasha Beretvas, Ph.D.

Tasha Beretvas is the senior vice provost of faculty affairs and the John L. and Elizabeth G. Hill Centennial professor of quantitative methods in the Educational Psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin. Tasha’s research focuses on the application and evaluation of statistical models in social, behavioral and health sciences research. Real world data (and especially meta-analytic data) are messy and Tasha enjoys finding ways to use statistical models to help herself, her students and fellow researchers make better sense of the mess. Since first becoming a professor 20 years ago, Tasha has taught graduate and undergraduate statistics courses as well as workshops at national conferences, and co-teaches an Institute of Education Sciences-funded national workshop focused on advanced meta-analytic techniques. Dr. Beretvas has received multiple teaching awards and is committed to making statistics and their use accessible to applied researchers. Tasha has published over 90 scientific papers and book chapters and co-authored a couple of books. She is a member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology and served as co-editor-in-chief of the Research Synthesis Methods journal and Associate Editor for the Journal of School Psychology and Journal of Educational Psychology. For more information, see her academic webpage.