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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Provided psychometric advices and cross functional supports among education ministry and educational administrative personnels - Conducted equating and psychometric analyses and support for the Alberta K-12 education programs including but not limited to Diploma exams, Student Learning Assessments, Provincial Achievement Tests and Screening Assessments.

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

• Led pre- and post-test administration psychometric analyses such as new test form review, IRT pre-equating, score validation, analyzing test and item analyses, pretest item calibrating pretest items, large-scale.
• Consulted state agents and served as a liaison to negotiate state contracts, communicate statistical analyses and results to audiences with various level of technical knowledge, and expand assessment landscaping.
• Established company-wide standard operational processes to make recommendation on business decision such as improve existing workflow processes and operational dataflow processes.
• Developed successful business case and technical requirements for TAO test platform implementation, which migrated the delivery of ACT’s workforce assessments from server-based to web-based platform.
• Established the guideline embracing statistical analyses and results along with implications for test forms development, which laid the foundation for constructing quality test forms with improving workflow process.
• Created cross-functional team protocols for new form review and item pool management, which were ultimately implemented company-wide.

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

• Helped ACT’s securing the two largest No Child Left Behind state contracts with Prairie State Achievement Examination and Michigan Merit Examination with more than 200,000 examinees took WorkKeys Assessments every year.
• Assisted ACT’s ensuring the long-term state contract: Alabama Educator Certification Testing Program. Conducted post-equating analysis and technical reports in addition to negotiating with clients’ changing program.
• Supervised junior staffs at the Psychometric Measurement Department to resolve psychometric issues within operational practices by evaluating equating results, changing equating methods, addressing scoring issues, and.
• Optimized work efficiency through standardization of workflow processes as departmental liaison.
• Led a team of six junior staffs to specify item statistics requirements and procedures to expand and update test item pools.
• Conducted research studies for psychometric support in new test form construction, computer-adaptive testing, and test accommodations. Demonstrated research findings to audience with various level of technical.

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

• Instituted test item pools containing item statistics from both Classical and Item Response Theory, which supported ACT in transforming its large-scale workforce assessments from Classical post-equating to IRT-based.
• Conducted quantitative analyses such as item calibrations, test analyses, and scoring for ACT’s workforce large-scale assessments. Contributed to technical documentation and knowledge sharing in the Psychometric.
• Conducted common-item nonequivalent design classical equating and post-administration analyses for No Child Left Behind state contracts.
• Provided psychometric supports (e.g., summary statistics, equating results’ pro and cons, resolutions for solving issues, etc.) for upper management and external clients.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams (e.g., database, operations, and test development) to identify operational issues (e.g., dataflow, scoring, or item over-exposure) with solutions to improve work efficiency.
• Collaborated with data engineers for data gathering requirements to access data. Established data cleaning requirement procedures, which implemented as the standard for conducting psychometric analyses in the.

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

• Conducted large-scale assessment scoring in addition to item and test form analyses.
• Consolidated item statistics required for building an item pool for large-scale assessments.
• Supported psychometric analyses involving item calibration, optional analysis, and test reliability.
• Conducted research studies to investigate the impacts of anchor-item selections on IRT scale transformation and equating and evaluate the consistency of different equating designs.

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

• Conducted summary statistical analyses and reports for organizational decision making.
• Assisted with data collection, study design, and data analyses requested by other staffs.
• Designed survey questionnaires for gifted and talented middle-school students and summarized research results.
• Provided assistance in mathematics and statistics for minority college students.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Education

Master Of Arts - Ma, Education

Activities and Societies: - Participated in the Chinese Bible Study Fellowship group in Iowa City

Teacher Certification

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mathematics And Statistics