CRAME works collaboratively with a number of affiliated faculty members at the University of Alberta related to assessment and evaluation across campus. Many of these affiliates are also CRAME alumni.
Oksana Babenko - Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
(PhD, University of Alberta, 2011)
Research Interests: Health professions education and health workforce; measurement and evaluation; research design.
Ken Cor - Associate Professor & Assistant Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
(PhD, Stanford University, 2012)
Research Interests: Educational measurement, evaluation, and psychometrics, with a focus on assessment design and construction, curriculum evaluation, social science research methods, applications of generalizability theory with performance assessments, applications of item response theory to automatically assemble tests, and the impact of educational assessment contexts on motivation and learning behaviour.
Vijay Daniels - Professor & Assistant Dean Assessment, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
(MHPE, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013)
Research Interests: optimizing performance assessments (OSCEs and workplace based), competency-based medical education, automated feedback systems, validity frameworks
Carrie Demmans Epp - Assistant Professor, Educational Technology and Human-computer interaction, Department of Computing Science
(PhD, University of Toronto, 2015)
(Postdoctoral Researcher, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, 2017)
Research Interests: using technology to assess student knowledge and skills with a focus on enabling the adaptation of learning activities and environments; modelling and analytic techniques that enable adaptation and the reporting mechanisms that supply feedback to students based on those models
Samira ElAtia - Professor & Associate Dean, Campus Saint-Jean
(PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001)
Research Interests: Educational measurement, evaluation, and psychometrics, with a focus on language Assessment, socio-linguistic bias in assessment, competency-based assessment, assessment of graduate attributes in higher education, educational legislation.
Tahereh Firoozi - Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
(PhD, University of Alberta, 2023)
Research Interests: Automatic essay scoring and automatic item generation; Text analysis and data mining; Applications of artificial intelligence to health sciences research; linguistics; language testing and assessment; transfer learning in artificial intelligence; data augmentation in computing science.
Rebecca Gokiert - Professor, School of Public Health
(PhD, University of Alberta, 2007)
Research Interests: community-based research approaches to examine both cultural group differences and the validity of commonly used screening and assessment tools in early childhood programs.
Hollis Lai - Associate Professor & Assistant Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
(PhD, University of Alberta, 2013)
Research Interests: Educational measurement; assessment designs in medical education; curriculum mapping; educational data mining; item generation.
Mary Roduta Roberts - Associate Professor and Associate Dean Graduate Studies, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
(PhD, University of Alberta, 2012)
Research Interests: educational assessment, assessment validation, communication of assessment results/score reporting, applied measurement, participatory methods, and diversifying the health professions.
Mr. Yinggan (Gray) Zheng - Senior Biostatistician, Canadian VIGOUR Centre
(MEd, University of Alberta, 2008)
Research interests: statistical methodology for time-to-event data, measurement of readers/raters reliability, model adjustment procedures such as propensity score matching, inverse probability weight, instrumental variables etc, patient risk stratification in acute coronary syndromes and acute heart failure.