CRAME ON CAMPUS

crame affiliates

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, Medical Education, Department of Family Medicine 

(PhD, University of Alberta, 2011)

Research Interest: Educational measurement and evaluation; assessment in medical education; research design and quantitative research methods; development and validation of data gathering tools.

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

Website: https://spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca/edtekla/

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 Roberts - Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine 

(PhD, University of Alberta, 2012)

Research Interests: Clinical and professional reasoning; use and integration of technology with student assessment, instruction, and curriculum; interprofessional education; supports for the health and wellness of seniors and their caregivers living in the community.

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.