CV
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Education
- B.S. (Honors) in Applied Psychology, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2018
- Advisor: Yilung Kuo
- M.S. in Educational Psychology and Research, University of Kansas, 2020
- Advisor: Bruce Frey
- Ph.D in Quantitative Methods in Education, University of Minnesota, 2024 (expected)
- Advisor: Joseph A. Rios
Work experience
- Psychometric Intern/Research Associate, 05/2022-08/2022
- Human Resource Research Organization
- Louisville, KY
- Graduate Instructor, 01/2022-Present
- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota
- Graduate Research Assistant, 09/2020-Present
- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, 09/2020-12/2021
- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, 08/2019-05/2020
- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Kansas
- Education and Evaluation Assistant,03/2019-08/2019
- Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
Research Interests
- Test-taking Effort and Rapid Guessing Responses
- Process Data Analysis in Educational Assessments
- (Mixture) Item Response Models
- Data Visualization in Education
- Computer Adaptive Test Research
- Population Invariance Issues in Equating and Linking
- Response Invariance of Selected-response Items Between Subgroups
Skills
- Simulation studies (Advanced)
- Meta-analysis (Advanced)
- R (Advanced)
- SPSS (Advanced)
- HLM (Intermediate)
- IRTPRO (Intermediate)
- Microsoft Office (Advanced)
Publications
Presentations
Impact of isolated word and contextual training on reading fluency and comprehension for chinese children
Paper presentation at Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association (CAERDA) International Conference, Xi'an, China
The nature of country performance differences via distractor analyses: Examining comparability of international assessments outcomes
Paper presentation at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Quantifying the Biasing Effect of Rapid Guessing on Estimates of Coefficient Alpha
Paper presentation at College of Education and Human Development Research Day , Minneapolis, MN
Does the choice of response time threshold procedure matter? Implications for identifying rapid guessing behavior
Paper presentation at National Council on Measurement in Education 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual
The relationship between differential distractor functioning (DDF) and differential item Functioning (DIF): If DDF Occurs, Must DIF Occur?
Paper presentation at National Council on Measurement in Education 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual
Investigating the effect of differential rapid guessing on population invariance in equating
Paper presentation at Department of Educational Psychology Graduate Student Research Day, Minneapolis, MN
Investigating the effect of differential rapid guessing on population invariance in equating
Paper presentation at National Council on Measurement in Education 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual
To what degree does rapid guessing distort test performance? A meta-analytic investigation
Paper presentation at National Council on Measurement in Education 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Evaluating rapid guessing response patterns on a multistage assessment: A simulation study
Paper presentation at National Council on Measurement in Education 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Teaching
Professional Service
- Co-Director, In-Progress Research Gala (IPRG) for the Division D in AERA, 03/2020-06/2022
- Lead the IPRG program
- Organize IPRG monthly meeting
- Implement the IPRG at the AERA Annual Meeting
- Student Multicultural Affairs Committee Representative, University of Kansas, 10/2019-05/2020