Curriculum Vitae
Academic appointments, education, research funding, awards, editorial roles, and professional service. For the complete record of scholarly work, see the Publications and Presentations pages.
Academic & professional positions
Professor
Measurement, Evaluation, and Data Science (MEDS), Faculty of Education, University of Alberta — Edmonton, AB
Associate Professor
Measurement, Evaluation, and Data Science (MEDS), Faculty of Education, University of Alberta — Edmonton, AB
Assistant Professor
Measurement, Evaluation, and Data Science (MEDS), Faculty of Education, University of Alberta — Edmonton, AB
Psychometrician
Assessment Program, American Institutes for Research — Washington, DC · Statewide alternate assessments for students with disabilities
Research Fellow
Clinical Assessments, Pearson Assessments — Bloomington, MN · Technical evaluation of behavioral and intelligence tests
Academic background
Ph.D., Educational Psychology — Quantitative Methods in Education
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
M.A., Educational Psychology — Quantitative Methods in Education
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
B.A., Elementary Education
Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Türkiye
Current research grants
Active funding totaling $587,541.
- 2023–2028Improving Canadian Teachers' Assessment Literacy and Decision-Making through Self-Directed Professional Development — Principal Investigator · SSHRC Insight Grant · $140,379
- 2026Identifying Adaptive Problem-Solving Profiles to Mitigate Systemic Barriers in Canada's Labour Market — Principal Investigator · Future Skills Centre · $88,480
- 2025–2027Many Teacher Emotions: Setting the Stage for a Global Study on Teachers' Emotions — Co-PI (PI: Lia Daniels) · Kule Institute for Advanced Study · $75,000
- 2025–2026Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on the Sustainability of Assessments in Higher Education — Principal Investigator · Worldwide Universities Network & University of Alberta · £9,628 + $5,000
- 2026–2027Does Explainable AI Shape Trust and Critical AI Adoption Across Continents? — Co-PI (PI: Nino Gugushvili, Maastricht University) · Worldwide Universities Network · £9,969
Awards & honors
- 2023–2024Martha Cook Piper Research Prize — University of Alberta
- 2022–2023Young Investigator Award — Journal of Intelligence
- 2021–2022Coutts-Clarke Fellowship — University of Alberta
- 2017–2018Distinguished Paper Award — American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- 2015–2016Alicia Cascallar Outstanding Paper Award — National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
- 2012–2013John P. Yackel/Pearson Assessment Graduate Fellowship — University of Minnesota
- 2012–2013Research Grant — Applied Psychological Measurement, Inc.
- 2011–2012Mary Corcoran Graduate Fellowship — University of Minnesota
- 2007–2009Graduate Scholarship — Turkish Ministry of National Education
Editorial roles
- Associate Editor Intelligence · Journal of Measurement and Evaluation in Education and Psychology · Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation
- Section Editor-in-Chief Journal of Intelligence — Contributions to the Measurement of Intelligence
- Consulting Editor Journal of Educational Psychology
- Editorial Board Member International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education · Canadian Journal of Educational Psychology · Journal of Intelligence · Psych
- Special Issue Editor Frontiers in Education · Journal of Intelligence · Journal of Applied Testing Technology