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 Research Team

 

 Current Members

Chia-Yi Chiu, Ph.D., Lab Director

Dr. Chia-Yi Chiu is an Associate Professor of Educational Statistics and Measurement in GSE at Rutgers University. Her research concerns the theoretical foundations of innovative assessments like CD-based computerized adaptive testing for use in classrooms. Dr. Chiu’s ambition is to create efficient and easy-to-use assessment tools that help improve the quality and effectiveness of instruction. For more information about Dr. Chiu, please visit her GSE faculty website.

Karlun James Chun, Associate Director of SAS IT

James was the associate director of the former Cyberlearning, Innovation & Research Center (CIRC), which was merged to SAS IT at Rutgers. He has been collaborating with Dr. Chiu and her graduate students to develop the web app Computerized Adaptive Testing and Learning for Cognitive Diagnosis (CATL-CD) based on the nonparametric CD-CAT algorithm developed by Dr. Chiu.

Current Members

Yu Wang, Ph.D. Student, GA

Yu is currently a third-year Ph.D. student of Educational Statistics and Measurement in GSE at Rutgers University. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Beijing Normal University, China, and M.A. in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment from Boston College. She has been working on developing the Item-cloning algorithms and her recent research project concerns the development of the MC-NPC method.

Collaborators

Hans Friedrich Köhn, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Former Members

Jiahao Li, M.S. Student, GA

Jiahao Li is a Master student of Data Science in Statistics department at Rutgers University and plans to graduate in May 2022. He assisted Dr. Chiu and Yu Wang in developing test items and the item-cloning algorithms.

Yan (Simon) Sun, Ph.D.

Yan Sun was a graduate student at GSE’s doctoral program when he joined the CAREER research team. He has successfully defended his dissertation “Strategies for Addressing High Dimensional Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment Problems” in May, 2019. He is now working as a research scientist at Tomorrow Advancing Life (TAL), a learning company based in Beijing, China. His current research interest is combining psychometrics and machine learning methods to build better adaptive learning platforms.

 

Yuan-Pei Chang

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