Ying Cui

Ying Cui

Associate Professor, Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation

Educational Psychology
yc@ualberta.ca

Research and Interests

Dr. Cui is interested in research in the area of Educational Measurement and Evaluation. She is particularly interested in investigating person fit on large scale assessments, developing and validating cognitive diagnostic assessment, and applying statistical modelling techniques to educational research.

Representative Publications and Presentations

Li, J. C.-H., Cui, Y., & Chan, W. (in press). Bootstrap confidence intervals for the mean correlation corrected for Case IV range restriction – A more adequate procedure for meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/a0029946.

Cui, Y., Gierl, M. J., & Chang, W. W. (2012). Estimating classification consistency and accuracy for cognitive diagnostic assessment. Journal of Educational Measurement, 49, 19-38.

Cui, Y. & Li, J.C. (2012). Evaluating the performance of parametric and nonparametric procedures of constructing confidence interval for coefficient alpha: A simulation study. Journal of British Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8317.2012.02038.x.

Canel-Çınarbaş, D., Cui, Y., & Lauridsen, E. (2011). Cross-cultural validation of Beck Depression Inventory-II across U.S. and Turkish sample. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and  Development, 44, 77-91.

Li, J. C., Chan, W. & Cui. Y. (2010). Bootstrap standard error and confidence intervals for indirectly range-restricted correlation: A Monte Carlo simulation study. Journal of British Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.  Advanced online publication. Doi:10.1348/2044-8317.002007.

Zheng, Y., Gierl, M. J., & Cui, Y. (2010). Using Cochran’s Z statistic to test the kernel-Smoothed IRF differences between focal and reference groups. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 70, 541-556.

Cui, Y. & Leighton, J. P. (2009). The hierarchy consistency index: A person-fit statistic for cognitive diagnostic assessment. Journal of Educational Measurement, 46, 429-449.

Courses Taught

  • EDPY 500 Introduction to Data Analysis in Educational Research
  • EDPY 505 Advanced Univariate Statistics in Educational Research
  • EDPY 605 Advanced Multivariate Statistics in Educational Research
  • EDPY 697 Hierarchical Linear Modelling
  • EDPY 697 Programming with Mathematica