Assistant Professor Ken McClure
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Education
Ph.D. Quantitative Psychology, University of Notre Dame, 2024
M.A. Research & Experimental Psychology, University of Notre Dame, 2023
B.S. Mathematics & Statistics (double major), University of Wyoming, 2018
B.S. Psychology (Minor: Honors Program), University of Wyoming, 2018
Research Interests
· Adaptive measurement methods for intensive longitudinal designs
· Data quality in ambulatory assessment
· Suicide prevention, mental health, and rural mental health
· Measurement, Item Response Theory, and Computerized Adaptive Testing
· Predictive modeling for social and behavioral data
About
Kenneth McClure joined the University of Wyoming faculty in 2024. He came to the University of Wyoming after completing his Ph.D. in quantitative psychology at the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. McClure is a quantitative psychologist and psychometrician with interdisciplinary interests in suicide prevention, mental health, and education. His expertise includes behavioral statistics (e.g., psychometrics, structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling), survey research methods, intensive longitudinal designs (e.g., ecological momentary assessment), predictive modeling for social and behavioral data, and suicide prevention. His research is largely centered around developing methodologically innovative techniques to improve the assessment and prediction of clinical phenomena in intensive longitudinal designs (e.g., ecological momentary assessment, ambulatory assessment).
Representative Publications
Ammerman, B. A., McClure, K., Law., K. C., O’Loughlin, C.M., & Jacobucci, R. (Accepted). Online disclosure of suicide method: What can sentiment in online posts tell us about suicide risk? Journal of Psychiatric Research
Jacobucci, R., Ammerman, B. A., & McClure, K. (2024). Examining missingness at the momentary level in clinical research using ecological momentary assessment: Implications for suicide research. Journal of Clinical Psychology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23728
McClure, K., Ammerman, B. A., & Jacobucci, R. (2024). On the Selection of Item Scores or Composite Scores for Clinical Prediction. Multivariate Behavioral Research.
O’Loughlin, C. M., McClure, K., & Ammerman, B. A. (2024). Development and validation of the Self-Injury Stigma Scale. Journal of Psychiatric Research
McClure, K., Bell, K.-A., Jacobucci, R., & Ammerman, B. A. (2023). Measurement invariance and response consistency of single-item assessments for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Psychological Assessment, https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001268
McClure, K. (2023). Bayesian IRT in JAGS: A Tutorial, Journal of Behavioral Data Science, 3(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.35566/jbds/v3n1/mccure
Ammerman, B. A., Burke, T. A., Jacobucci, R., & McClure, K. (2021). How we ask matters: The impact of question wording in single-item measurement of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Preventive Medicine, 152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106472
