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Okan Bulut, PhD, MA, BA

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education - Educational Psychology Dept
Casual Academic Hourly, School of Public Health

Pronouns: he, him, his

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Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education - Educational Psychology Dept
Email
bulut@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-3668
Address
6-110C Education Centre - North
8730 - 112 St NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2G5
Casual Academic Hourly, School of Public Health
Email
bulut@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Educational measurement psychometrics educational data mining learning analytics artificial intelligence

About

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Ph.D., Educational Psychology - Quantitative Methods in Education (2013)


University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

M.A., Educational Psychology - Quantitative Methods in Education (2010)

Research

Dr. Bulut is an Associate Professor of educational measurement and psychometrics as well as a member of the Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation (CRAME) at the University of Alberta. CRAME is a research-intensive centre in the Measurement, Evaluation and Cognition (MEC) area of the Department of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta.

My current research interests include educational data mining, learning analytics, digital cognitive assessments, psycho-educational assessments, and statistical programming using the R programming language. His research has been published in Educational and Psychological Measurement, Review of Educational Research, and other peer-reviewed journals. He is also a co-author of the CRC Press book: Handbook of Educational Measurement and Psychometrics Using R.

Teaching

Courses Taught:

  • EDPY 303 Educational Assessment
  • EDPY 500 Introduction to Data Analysis in Educational Research
  • EDPY 501 Introduction to Methods of Educational Research
  • EDPY 504 Survey Design and Implementation
  • EDPY 507 Measurement Theory I
  • EDPY 605 Quantitative Methods II
  • EPDY 607 Measurement Theory II

Courses

EDPY 507 - Measurement Theory I

This course will introduce students to the concepts and procedures required to develop, administer, and use educational and psychological assessments. Emphasis will be placed on the foundational concepts related to reliability and validity.

Winter Term 2025

EDPY 607 - Measurement Theory II

This course will focus on advanced topics and applications required to develop, administer, and use educational and psychological assessments. Emphasis will be placed on the application of theoretical concepts necessary for solving practical assessment problems. Prerequisite: EDPY 507 or equivalent. Formerly EDPY 508. Students cannot receive credit for both EDPY 508 and EDPY 607.

Winter Term 2025

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Featured Publications

A Comparison of Bias Mitigation Techniques for Educational Classification Tasks Using Supervised Machine Learning

Tarid Wongvorachan, Okan Bulut, Joyce Xinle Liu, Elisabetta Mazzullo

Information. 2024 June; 10.3390/info15060326

A Psychometric Network Analysis Approach for Detecting Item Wording Effects in Self-report Measures across Subgroups

H. Cigdem Bulut, Okan Bulut, Ashley Clelland

Field Methods. 2024 May; 10.1177/1525822X241247444

Technology-Integrated Assessment: A Literature Review

Colin Madland, Valerie Irvine, Chris DeLuca, Okan Bulut

The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Journal. 2024 May; 10.18357/otessaj.2024.4.1.57

Developing the Technology-Integrated Assessment Framework

Colin Madland, Valerie Irvine, Chris DeLuca, Okan Bulut

The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Journal. 2024 May; 10.18357/otessaj.2024.4.1.63

A Review of Automatic Item Generation Techniques Leveraging Large Language Models

Bin Tan, Nour Armoush, Elisabetta Mazzullo, Okan Bulut, Mark J. Gierl

2024 April; 10.35542/osf.io/6d8tj

Examining Position Effects on Students’ Ability and Test-Taking Speed in the TIMSS 2019 Problem-Solving and Inquiry Tasks: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Joyce Xinle Liu, Okan Bulut, Matthew D. Johnson

Psychology International. 2024 April; 10.3390/psycholint6020030

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Sequential Process Data

Okan Bulut, Guher Gorgun, Surina He

Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 2024 April; 10.1027/2151-2604/a000558

Psycho-Educational Assessments: Theory and Practice

Okan Bulut

Journal of Intelligence. 2024 March; 10.3390/jintelligence12030031

Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning With Artificial Intelligence-Powered Learning Analytics

Seyma N. Yildirim-Erbasli, Guher Gorgun, Okan Bulut

2023 December; 10.4018/979-8-3693-0066-4.ch004

Language models in automated essay scoring: Insights for the Turkish language

Tahereh FİROOZİ, Okan BULUT, Mark GİERL

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education. 2023 December; 10.21449/ijate.1394194

Learning Analytics in the Era of Large Language Models

Elisabetta Mazzullo, Okan Bulut, Tarid Wongvorachan, Bin Tan

Analytics. 2023 November; 10.3390/analytics2040046

Learning Analytics in the Era of Large Language Models

Elisabetta Mazzullo, Okan Bulut, Tarid Wongvorachan, Bin Tan

2023 August; 10.20944/preprints202308.0366.v1

Rapid guessing in low-stakes assessments: Finding the optimal response time threshold with random search and genetic algorithm

Bulut, O., Gorgun, G., Wongvorachan, T., & Tan, B.

Algorithms. 2023 February; 16 (2):89 10.3390/a16020089

Automatic story and item generation for reading comprehension assessments with transformers

Bulut, O., & Yildirim-Erbasli, S. N.

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education. 2022 November; 9 (Special Issue):72-87 10.21449/ijate.1124382

The effects of providing students with revision opportunities in alternate assessments

Bulut, O., Bulut, H. C., Cormier, D. C., Ilgun Dibek, M., & Sahin Kursad, M.

Educational Assessment. 2022 October; 28 (1):48-63 10.1080/10627197.2022.2138322

Standing on the shoulders of giants: Online formative assessments as the foundation for predictive learning analytics models

Bulut, O., Gorgun, G., Yildirim-Erbasli, S. N., Wongvorachan, T., Daniels, L. M., Gao, Y., Lai, K. W., & Shin, J.

British Journal of Educational Technology. 2022 September; 54 (1):19-39 10.1111/bjet.13276

Optimized screening for students at-risk in mathematics: A machine learning approach

Bulut, O., Cormier, D. C., & Yildirim-Erbasli, S. N.

Information. 2022 August; 13 (8):400 10.3390/info13080400

Learning analytics and computerized formative assessments: An application of Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm for personalized test scheduling

Okan Bulut, Jinnie Shin, Damien C. Cormier

Mathematics. 2022 June; 10 (13):2230 10.3390/math10132230

Examining adults’ web navigation patterns in multi-layered hypertext environments

Yizhu Gao, Ying Cui, Okan Bulut, Xiaoming Zhai, Fu Chen

Computers in Human Behavior. 2022 April; 129 10.1016/j.chb.2021.107142

Item wording effects in self-report measures and reading achievement: Does removing careless respondents help?

Hatice C. Bulut, Okan Bulut

Studies in Educational Evaluation. 2022 March; 72 10.1016/j.stueduc.2022.101126

Evaluating group differences in online reading comprehension: The impact of item properties

Bulut, H. C., Bulut, O., & Arikan, S.

International Journal of Testing. 2022 February; 23 (1):10-33 10.1080/15305058.2022.2044821

Rapid assessment of communication consistency: Sentiment analysis of public health briefings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Okan Bulut, Cheryl N. Poth

AIMS Public Health. 2022 February; 9 (2):293-306 10.3934/publichealth.2022020

Building an intelligent recommendation system for personalized test scheduling: A reinforcement learning approach

Jinnie Shin, Okan Bulut

Behavior Research Methods. 2022 February; 54 10.3758/s13428-021-01602-9

Guidelines for generating effective feedback from e-assessments

Okan Bulut, Maria Cutumisu, Deepak Sing, Alexandra Aquilina

Hacettepe University Journal of Education. 2020 September; 35 (Special Issue):60-72

An intelligent recommender system for personalized test administration scheduling with computerized formative assessments

Okan Bulut, Damien Cormier, Jinnie Shin

Frontiers in Education. 2020 September; 5

profileR: An R package for profile analysis

C. D. Desjardins, O. Bulut

The Journal of Open Source Software. 2020 March; 5 (47):1941

Evaluating the performances of missing data handling methods in ability estimation from sparse data

J. Xiao, O. Bulut

Educational and Psychological Measurement. 2020 March; 0 (0):1-23

The effects of item format and cognitive domain on students’ science performance in TIMSS 2011

P.-Y. Liou, O. Bulut

Research in Science Education. 2020 February; 50

Profile analysis of multivariate data: A brief introduction to the profileR package

O. Bulut, C. D. Desjardins

PsyArXiv Preprints. 2020 February; 0 (0):1-16

Effects of digital score reporting and feedback on students’ learning in higher education

O. Bulut, M. Cutumisu, A. M. Aquilina, D. Singh

Frontiers in Education. 2019 June; 4 (65):1-16

Educational data mining: A tutorial for the rattle package in R

O. Bulut, H. C. Yavuz

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education. 2019 January; 6 (5):20-36

Item and testlet position effects in computer-based alternate assessments for students with disabilities

O. Bulut, M. Lei, Q. Guo

International Journal of Research & Method in Education. 2018 January; 41 (2):169-183

When technology does not add up: ICT use negatively predicts mathematics and science achievement for Finnish and Turkish students in PISA 2012

O. Bulut, M. Cutumisu

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. 2018 January; 27 (1):25-42

A structural equation modeling approach for examining position effects in large-scale assessments

O. Bulut, Q. Guo, M. Gierl

Large-Scale Assessments in Education. 2017 January; 5 (8):1-20

Monte Carlo simulation studies in item response theory with the R programming language

O. Bulut, Ö. Sünbül

Journal of Measurement and Evaluation in Education and Psychology. 2017 January; 8 (3):266-287

Estimating between-person and within-person subscore reliability with profile analysis

O. Bulut, M. L. Davison, M. C. Rodriguez

Multivariate Behavioral Research. 2017 January; 52 (1):86-104

Detecting DIF in multidimensional assessments with the MIMIC model, the IRT likelihood ratio test, and logistic regression

O. Bulut, Y. Suh

Frontiers in Education. 2017 January; 2 (51):1-14

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