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Hua-Hua Chang
Charles R. Hicks Chair Professor
Educational Psychology & Research MethodologyEducational Studies
- Ph.D. — Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1992)
- M.S. — Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1988)
- Diploma — Mathematics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (1980)
- 2018 – present
Charles R. Hicks chair Professor
Department of Educational Studies
College of Education, Purdue University
- 2013 – 2017
Director of Confucius Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- 2009 – 2018
Professors of Educational Psychology, Psychology and Statistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- 2005 – 2009
Associate Professors of Educational Psychology, Psychology, and Statistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- 2001 – 2005
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Texas, Austin, TX
- 1999 – 2001
Senior Psychometrician and Project Director of Computerized Testing Technological Research
National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 – 1998
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- 1992 – 1999
Associate Research Scientist and Research Scientist
Division of Statistics and Psychometrics Research
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
- E. F. Lindquist Award for Contributions to Research in Testing and Measurement American Educational Research Association (2017)
- Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, College of Education, UIUC (2016)
- University of Illinois Robert Bohrer Lecture in Statistics, UIUC (2014)
- Commencement Speaker, School of Educational Sciences, East China Normal University (2014)
- Award for Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology,ERA–Division D (2011)
- Elected Fellow of American Educational Research Association (2010)
- Distinguished Senior Scholar Award, College of Education, UIUC (2010)
- Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (Australia), US State Department (2005)
Professor Chang came to Purdue in August 2018. Prior to joining Purdue, he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and held professorships in educational psychology, psychology and statistics. He is a Fulbright Scholar, an elected fellow of the American Educational Research Association and editor-in-chief of Applied Psychological Measurement, and previously served as president of the Psychometric Society. Professor Chang’s research has focused primarily on improving educational assessments, specifically on issues emerged from the K-12 accountability testing. His research interests are broad, encompassing both theoretical development and applied methodologies, including computerized adaptive testing, statistically testing item bias, cognitive diagnosis, and adaptive learning. Many of his manuscripts were published in top-tier journals, ranging from very theoretical, such as Annals of Statistics, to very applied, such as Educational and Psychological Measurement. He was included on the “Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students” for 10 consecutive years at UIUC.
- Morphew, J., Mestre, J., Kang, H., Chang, H-H., & Fabry, G. (2018). Using computer adaptive testing to assess physics proficiency and improve exam performance. Physical Review Physics Education Research, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.010127.
- Chang, H.-H. (2015). Psychometrics behind computerized adaptive testing. Psychometrika, 80 (1), 1-20.
- Chang, H-H., & Ying, Z. (2009). Nonlinear sequential designs for logistic item response theory models with applications to computerized adaptive tests. The Annals of Statistics, Vol 37, No. 3, 1466-1488.
- Chang, H-H., & Ying, Z. (2008). To weight or not to weight? Balancing influence of initial items in adaptive testing. Psychometrika, 73 (3), 441-450.
- McGlohen, M. & Chang, H-H. (2008). Combining computer adaptive testing technology with cognitively diagnostic assessment. Behavior Research Methods 40 (3), 808-821.
- EDPS 63200 — Computerized Adaptive Testing
- EDPS 63200 — Psychometrics with R Programming
- EDPS 63600 — Item Response Theory