Caihong Li, PhD, 2015
Performance Analyst Principal/UKHCEVPHA Information Technology
Email: caihong.li@uky.edu
Mentor: Michael Toland, PhD
Dissertation: Evaluation of limited information goodness-of-fit indices
Hao Zhou, Ph.D., 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Beijing Normal University
Email: hao.zhou@bnu.edu.cn
Mentor: Xin Ma, PhD
Dissertation: A partial simulation study of phantom effects in multilevel analysis of school effects: The case of school socioeconomic composition
David M. Dueber, Ph.D, 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kentucky
Email: David.Dueber@uky.edu
Mentor: Michael Toland, PhD
dissertation: A bifactor approach to dimensionality assessment
Carol Hanley, Ph.D, 2020
Director of Outreach Services, Associate Director International Programs in Agriculture, University of Kentucky
E-mail: chanley@email.uky.edu
Mentor: Michael Toland, PhD
Dissertation: Assessing the performance of two procedures for detecting differential item functioning within the multilevel partial credit model
Xian Wu, Ph.D, 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kentuky
E-mail: xian.wu@uky.edu
Mentor: Xin Ma, PhD
Dissertation: Can less be more? Study load and its effect on science achievement among Chinese eighth-grade students
Rongxiu Wu, Ph.D, 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Connecticut
E-mail: rongxiu.wu@uconn.edu
Mentor: Xin Ma, PhD
Dissertation: Advanced multilevel models for comparing group characteristics: The case of sex differences in reading achievement
Chen Qiu, Ph.D., 2022
Psychometrician, ACT
E-mail: chenqiu88@uky.edu
Mentor: Kelly D. Bradley, PhD
Dissertation: Exploring the use of Rasch models to construct measures of firms’ profitability with multiple discretization ratio-type data