John J. Hetts, Ph.D., is the Senior Director of Data Science at Educational Results Partnership. Building on twenty years of experience in instruction and research in higher education, his work focuses on identifying untapped student potential in educational data. His work on predictive modeling of student placement into and performance in foundational courses has won the 2012 RP Group Best College Research Award (as the Director of Institutional Research at Long Beach City College with colleagues Andrew Fuenmayor and Karen Rothstein, the 2014 ACCCA Mertes Award (also with Andrew Fuenmayor), and the 2015 RP Group Best Statewide Research Award as part of the Multiple Measures Assessment Project research team. He received his doctorate from UCLA in Social Psychology with a specialization in Measurement and Psychometrics and holds a B.A. with Distinction and Honors from Stanford University.