Academic

May 2013          Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods in Education, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

January 2010    M.A. in Quantitative Methods in Education, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

June 2006          B.A. in Elementary Education, Adnan Menderes University (Aydin, Turkey)

2023 - 2024      Martha Cook Piper Research Prize at the University of Alberta

2021 - 2022      Journal of Intelligence Young Investigator Award

2021 - 2022      The Coutts-Clarke Fellowship at the University of Alberta

2016 - 2017      AERA Distinguished Paper Award

2015 - 2016      NCME Alicia Cascallar Award for an Early Career Scholar

2012 - 2013      Pearson/Yackel Graduate Fellowship

2011 - 2012      The Mary Corcoran Graduate Fellowship at the University of Minnesota 

2006 - 2013      Graduate Study Abroad Scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of National Education

American Educational Research Association (AERA), Member since 2009

National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Member since 2009

NCME Publication Committee, Member since 2020

Member of the International Committee for AERA Division D, (2017-2019)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member since 2021

Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), Member since 2022

Journal of Measurement and Evaluation in Education and Psychology, associate editor

Journal of Educational Psychology, consulting editor

Psych, editorial board member

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, editorial board member

Canadian Journal of School Psychology, editorial board member