POSTDOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Dr. Tahereh Firoozi, Ph.D. (PDF 2024-2025)
Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Dentistry Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
Doctoral Students
Dr. Tahereh Firoozi, Ph.D., 2023 (University of Alberta Graduate Research Fellowship; University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship; University of Alberta Graduate Award; Mitacs Accelerate Internship 2021; Mitacs Business Strategy Internship 2022; Alberta Society for Computers in Education Scholarship in Educational Computing, 2022)
Dissertation: Using automated procedures to score written essays in Persian: An application of the multilingual BERT system. [The results of this study will be published as a chapter in The Routledge International Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation in 2024.]
Chang Lu, Ph.D., 2021
Dissertation: Automated feedback generation for learner modeling in intelligent tutoring systems. [The results of this study were presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education.]
Jinnie Shin, Ph.D., 2021
Dissertation: Automated item generation by combining the non-template and template-based approaches to generate reading inference test items.
Karen Fung, Ph.D., 2020
Dissertation: Scaling and linking relationships between an International Assessment and a Canadian National Assessment. [The results of this study were presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education in London, ON.]
Xinxin Zhang, Ph.D., 2019
Dissertation: Using automatic item generation to create content for computerized formative assessment. [The results from this study were presented at the 2018 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, New York, NY.]
Tracey Stephen, Ph.D., 2018
Dissertation: Using automatic essay scoring to assess higher-level thinking skills in nursing education. [The results from this study were published in the 2021 volume of Nurse Education in Practice.]
Syed Fahad Latifi, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation: Development and validation of an automated essay scoring framework by integrating deep features of English language. [The results from this study were presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Washington DC as well as at the 2016 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education in Calgary, AB.]
Hollis Lai, Ph.D., 2013
Dissertation: Developing a framework and demonstrating a systematic process for generating medical test items. [The results from this study were presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA. as well as at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Quebec City, QC.]
Mary Roberts, Ph. D., 2012
Dissertation: Developing and evaluating student score reports for cognitive diagnostic assessment. [The results from this study were presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA. The literature review from this study was published in 2010 in the journal Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice.]
Cecilia Alves, Ph.D., 2011
Dissertation: Using principled test design and analysis to develop diagnostic assessments in mathematics. [The results from this study were published as a book by Lambert Academic Press in 2012.]
Andrea Gotzmann, Ph. D., 2011
Dissertation: Comparing vertical equating methods using classical and modern test theory. [The results from this study were presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Philadelphia, PA.]
Jiawen Zhou, Ph.D., 2010
Dissertation: Attribute reliability in cognitive diagnostic assessment. [The results from this study were presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA.]
Changjiang Wang, Ph.D., 2007
Dissertation: Using the Attribute Hierarchy Method to evaluate critical reading items on the SAT. [The results from this study were presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Saskatoon, SK and the 2007 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL. It was also published in 2011 in the Journal of Educational Measurement.]
Kathryn Ricker, Ph.D., 2006
Dissertation: The consequences of multidimensionality on the robustness of IRT equating. [The results from this study were presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Winnipeg, MB and the 2005 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montréal, QC.]
Xuan (Adele) Tan, Ph.D., 2006
Dissertation: Evaluating the cluster consistency of DETECT when the data display simple and complex structure. [The results from this study were presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA and the 2007 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL.]
Yuen (Shirley) Y. Li, Ph.D., 2005
Dissertation: Using the multidimensionality-based DIF analysis paradigm to evaluate group differences on translated tests using the common-items nonequivalent groups equating design. [The results from this study were presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA and the 2004 International Testing Commission Fourth International Conference on Equitable Assessment Practices, Williamsburg, VA.]
Gautam Puhan, Ph.D., 2002
Dissertation: Evaluating the effectiveness of two-stage testing for English and French examinees on the SAIP Science Tests. [The results from this study were presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Toronto, ON. and the 2003 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL and also published in 2006 in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.]
Keith Boughton, Ph.D., 2001
Dissertation: The construction and evaluation of automated parallel forms and multiple parallel panels in computer adaptive sequential testing. [This study was presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.]
Master's Students
Nour Armoush, M.Ed., in progress
Aysegul Gunduz, M.Ed., in progress
Lauralee Ballash, M.Ed. In Health Sciences Education, 2023
Project: Reflection on using a formative assessment tool for nursing students in a clinical setting.
Jennifer Duncan, M. Ed. In Health Sciences Education, 2021
Project: How do we prepare transfusion medicine physicians for broad-based practice.
Dr. Ryan Knebel, M. Ed. In Health Sciences Education, 2021
Project: Creation and launch of ‘Knebel Knotes’, A psychiatric drug reference app.
Christopher Hillary, M. Ed. In Health Sciences Education, 2021
Project: Selkirk College team-based learning implementation guide.
Jacqueline McDuffie, M. Ed. In Health Sciences Education, 2020
Project: COVID-19 impacts on practicing dental hygiene in Alberta.
Susmita Saha, M. Ed., 2020
Project: Comprehensive review of computer-based testing: Why for Bangladesh?
Jamie-Lynn Yalte, M. Ed. In Health Sciences Education, 2020
Project: Selecting an oral health outcome measure for the Ronald McDonald care mobile program: A critical review.
Tara Leslie, M. Ed. in Health Sciences Education, 2019
Project: A demonstration of automatic item generation to create test items for a pharmacy licensing exam. [This study was presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Pharmacy Education and Research Conference, Montreal, QC.]
Bryce Odell, M. Ed., 2019
Thesis: The relationship between information and communication technology and academic achievement in mathematics and science in PISA 2015. [This study was presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, ON. The results have also been submitted for publication.]
Stephanie Varga, M. Ed., 2019
Thesis: MyMap: A graph theory approach to estimating attribute mastery. [This study was presented to the IACAT International Conference in Minneapolis, MI.]
Jinnie Shin, M. Ed., 2018
Thesis: A neural network approach to automated essay scoring: A comparison with the method of integrating deep language features using Coh-Metrix. [This study was presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Toronto, ON. The results have also been submitted for publication.]
Dr. Ida Kornerup, M. Ed. in Health Sciences Education, 2018
Project: The dreaded dentist: Identifying new stressors dental students experience while treating uncooperative children.
Dr. Doreen Oneschuk, M. Ed., 2017
Thesis: Establishing a practice based assessment for the practice eligible route for the certification of added competency with the College of Family Physicians of Canada [This study was presented to the College of Family Physicians in Canada to guide their policy decisions on professional competency development and assessment.]
Dr. Curtis Budden, M. Ed., 2016
Thesis: Use of the O-SCORE for plastic surgery assessment: A study using generalizability theory. [This study was presented at the 17th Ottawa Conferences on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions, Perth, Australia.]
Xinxin Zhang, M. Ed., 2016
Thesis: A model-based method for content validation of automatically generated test item. [This study was presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education. Washington, DC.]
Ekaterina Chudnovsky, M. Ed., 2014
Thesis: Evaluating the psychometric properties of the 18-month "Ages and Stages Questionnaires”.
Syed Fahad Latifi, M. Ed., 2014
Thesis: Automated essay scoring framework for a multilingual medical licensing examination. [This study was presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education in Philadelphia, PA and at the 16th Ottawa Conferences on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions, Ottawa, ON. It was also published in 2015 in Evaluation & the Health Professions.]
Yinggang (Gray) Zheng, M. Ed., 2008
Thesis: Using Cochran’s Z Statistic to test the kernel-smoothed IRF differences between focal and reference group. [This study was presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY. It was also published in 2010 in the journal Educational and Psychological Measurement.]
Jiawen Zhou, M. Ed., 2006
Thesis: Evaluating the performance of MULTISIB using different multidimensional matching criteria. [This study was presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA.]
Andrea Gotzmann, M. Ed., 2001
Thesis: Evaluating type I error and power rates for SIBTEST and TESTGRAF when ability distribution differences are large. [This study was presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.]
Shameem Khaliq, M.Ed., 2000
Thesis: A complete test of Hulin’s psychometric theory of measurement equivalence on translated tests. [This study was presented at the 2000 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, New Orleans, LA.]
Michael Jodoin, M.Ed., 1999
Thesis: Reducing type I error rates using an effect size measure with the logistic regression procedure for DIF detection. [This study was presented at the 2000 annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, New Orleans, LA and also published in 2001 in Applied Measurement in Education.]