Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, Ph.D.

Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, Ph.D.

Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, Ph.D. is an educational psychologist whose research addresses both development of English, Spanish and Hmong early literacy and language measures for preschool age students, as well as the design and evaluation of parent education programs. She is the co-director of the IGDIlab, a research lab at the University of Minnesota where she has secured over $5M in funding since 2012. Dr. Wackerle-Hollman's work focuses on measurement systems designed to evaluate progress on language and literacy in English and Spanish speaking preschoolers, and the adaptation of these measures for use on tablet devices. She is specifically interested in using data from these measurement platforms to support effective data-based decision making in the context of multi-tiered systems of support.