Current members
Dr. Chia-Yi Chiu is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods of education program at the University of Minnesota. 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 faculty webpage.
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.
Yu is currently a third-year Ph.D. student of educational statistics and measurement in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She received her B.A. in 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.
Collaborator
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Former members
Jiahao Li 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
Web development assistants
Ian Chen (left), Technical facilitator
Andrea is a freshman of the department of Arts and Design at National Taipei University of Education in Taiwan. Ian just advanced to the tenth grade at the Affiliated High School of National Chengchi University in Taiwan in fall 2021. Their great help makes the website more professional and informative.