Scott J. Peters, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for School and Student Progress at NWEA, a division of Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt (HMH). Prior to joining HMH he served as a Professor of Assessment and Research Methodology at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater for 13 years. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University specializing in gifted and talented education and applied research methodology. His research work focuses on educational assessment and data use, gifted and talented student identification, equity within advanced educational opportunities, and educational policy. He has published in the Australian Educational Researcher, AERA Open, Exceptional Children, the British Journal of Educational Psychology, Teaching for High Potential, Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal of Advanced Academics, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, Gifted and Talented International, Journal of Career and Technical Education Research, Ed Leadership, Ed Week, Phi Delta Kappan, and Pedagogies. He is the recipient of the Fedlhusen Doctoral Fellowship in Gifted Education, the NAGC Research an Evaluation Network Dissertation Award, the NAGC Doctoral Student of the Year Award, the NAGC Early Scholar Award, the NAGC Paper of the Year Award, the NAGC Book of the Year Award, and the UW-Whitewater Innovation and Outstanding Research Awards. He is the past Association Editor for NAGC and has served as the Program Chair of the AERA Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent SIG, on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted, and as the National Association for Gifted Children Research and Evaluation Secretary. Starting in fall 2020, he is a co-Principal Investigator with the National Center for Research on Gifted Education. He is the first author of Beyond Gifted Education: Designing and Implementing Advanced Academic Programs (2013) and Designing Gifted Education Programs and Services: From Purpose to Implementation (2017), both from Prufrock Press, and the co-author (along with Jonathan Plucker) of Excellence Gaps in Education: Expanding Opportunities for Talented Students (2016), published by Harvard Education Press.