PEOPLE
Faculty
Okan Bulut - Associate Professor
(PhD, University of Minnesota, 2013)
Research Interests: Educational measurement and psychometrics, focusing on computerized and digital assessments, educational data mining, the use of artificial intelligence and learning analytics to promote student success, and statistical programming using the R programming language.
Ying Cui - Professor
(PhD, University of Alberta, 2007)
Research Interests: Educational measurement and evaluation; cognitive diagnostic assessment; research design and applied statistical methods.
Lia Daniels - Professor, CRAME Director
(PhD, University of Manitoba, 2009)
Research Interests: impact of classroom assessment on students' motivation and emotion; building assessments to support adaptive student motivation; teachers' beliefs about assessment
Mark J. Gierl - Professor, Canada Research Chair in Educational Measurement
(PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996)
Research Interests: Educational and psychological measurement, focusing on differential item and bundle functioning; cognitively diagnostic assessment; assessment engineering; unidimensional and multidimensional item response theory.
Jacqueline P. Leighton - Professor and Registered Psychologist
(PhD, University of Alberta, 1999; PDF, Yale University, 2001)
Research Interests: Child and adolescent development and learning, with an emphasis on the assessment of student voice, participation, and higher-order thinking processes. Also, post-secondary student assessment and issues around the erosion of freedom of expression.
Cheryl Poth - Professor
(PhD, Queen's University, 2008)
Research Interests: Classroom assessment; program evaluation; mixed methods research design.
Post-Docs and visiting Scholars
Hatice Cigdem Bulut - Visiting Scholar
(PhD, Ankara University, 2019)
Educational measurement and evaluation, with a focus on scale and test development within educational and psychological contexts, psychometric issues in measurement instruments (e.g., test bias, measurement invariance, and detecting disengaged/careless responses in tests and surveys), and statistical modeling of large-scale assessment data.