Education

• Texas A&M University, Ph.D., 2018

• Texas A&M University, M.S., 2014

• Texas A&M University, B.A., 2011

Background

Senior Personnel, Developing and Assessing Measures for Social Surveys

Dr. Valdez' studies quantitative sampling and measurement practices for underrepresented populations, and currently focused on sexual health attitudes among Spanish-speaking Latinx communities. Valdez also conducts research in meta-science.

Courses

• Human Sexuality
• Writing Development

Selected Publications

Articles

Valdez, D., Jozkowski, K.N., Bridges, A., Turner, R.C., Lo, W.J., & Crawford B.L. (Preparing Submission). The effect of demographic race/ethnicity item refinement on unique score reliability for the General Social Survey abortion scale: A reliability generalization study.

Valdez, D., Jozkowski, K.N., Bridges, A., Turner, R.C., Lo, W.J., & Crawford, (Under Review) Survey translations in public opinion research: An application of Erkut's Dual-focus approach for the co-development of multi-language surveys

Carrillo, D., Valdez, D., McClelland S.I., Kaplan A.M., Bustamante, J.J., & Jozkowski, K.N. (Under Review). Spanish-language research on abortion: Recommendations for the field.

Pickett A.C., Valdez, D., & Barry A.E. (2019). Measurement implications associated with refinement of sexual and gender identity survey items: A case study of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA). Journal of American College Health. doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1598421

Valdez, D., & Pickett, A.C., & Goodson, P. (2018) Topic modeling in the social sciences: quantifying words to understand latent language patterns. Social Science Quarterly. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12528

Pickett, A.C., Valdez, D. & Barry, A.E. (2017). Psychometrics matter in health behavior research: A long-term reliability generalization study. American Journal of Health Behavior. [Online First Publication] DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.41.5.3

Barry, A.E., Valdez, D., Szucs, L., Reyes, J., & Goodson, P. (2019) Moving college health research forward: Reconsidering our reliance on statistical significance testing. Journal of American College Health. doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1470091