We are deeply saddened by the passing away of Professor Wang, Wen Chung, Associate Vice President (Research and Knowledge Transfer), Chair Professor of Educational Measurement of the Department of Psychology, and Co-Director of Assessment Research Centre at The Education University of Hong Kong, on 15 February 2018 in Hong Kong
我們尊敬的王文中教授在2018年2月15日於香港離世,我們深感悲痛。
Professor Wang obtained a PhD degree from University of California at Berkeley in 1994. He was installed in the 2014 Class of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellows. The AERA Fellows Program honors education researchers who have substantial research accomplishments, conveys the association’s commitment to excellence in research and emphasizes the importance of sustaining excellent research in the field.
In 2017, he was again elected a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Fellow status is awarded to APS Members* who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service and/or application.
He received President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research from HKIEd (now EdUHK) in 2012 and 2016, and Research Excellence Awards from National Science Council and National Chung Cheng University, and the Mu-Dou Award(木鐸獎)for his contribution to education. He was a Fulbright grantee in 2005 and visiting professor of University of California at Berkeley in 2005 and 2007.
Professor Wang is an associate editor of Applied Psychological Measurement and British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, and an editorial board member of several journals, including Bulletin of Educational Psychology, Chinese Journal of Psychology, Educational and Psychological Measurement (2006-2010), International Journal of Testing, Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing, Journal of Educational Measurement (2014-2016), Journal of Educational Practice and Research, and Journal of Educational Research and Development.
He has published 188 refereed journal articles and 14 book chapters, and authored or coedited 7 books. Since joining HKIEd in 2008, he has received 8 general Research Fund (GRF) grants and 1 Public Policy Research Funding (PPRF) grant as a principal investigator and several other grants as a co-investigator.
Fellow |
2014 American Educational Research Association(http://www.aera.net/Newsroom/News-Releases-and-Statements/AERA-2014-Fellows-Announced) 2018 American Psychological Association(https://www.apa.org/monitor/2018/12/apa-fellows) 2019 Association for Psychological Science(https://www.psychologicalscience.org/fellows/fellows-new.cfm) |
Employment |
2014 ~ present Associate Vice President (Research and Knowledge Transfer), Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) 2008 ~ present Chair Professor, Department of Psychology, EdUHK 09/2015 ~ present Co-Director of Assessment Research Center, EdUHK 2009 ~ 08/2015 Director of Assessment Research Center, EdUHK 2008 Distinguished Professor, National Chung Cheng University 2007 ~ 2008 Head, Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University 2005, 2007 Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley 2002~ 2008 Professor, National Chung Cheng University 1996 ~ 2002 Associate Professor, National Chung Cheng University 1995 ~ 1996 Associate Professor, National Taiwan University 1994 ~ 1995 Lecturer, National Taiwan University |
Honorary Chair Professor |
National Taiwan Normal University National Sun Yat-sen University Beijing Normal University |
Honor & Award |
2108 Life-time Achievement Award, Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Society 2016 President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research, EdUHK 2012 President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research, EdUHK 2006 Excellence in Research Award, National Science Council, Taiwan 2006 Excellence in Research Award, College of Social Sciences, National Chung Cheng University 2005 Fulbright Senior Scholarship 2005 Fellowship of Research Visit, National Science Council, Taiwan 2005 Excellence in Research Award, National Chung Cheng University 2004 Excellence in Research Award, College of Social Sciences, National Chung Cheng University 2003 Excellence in Research Award (Mu-Dou), Educational Research Associations, Taiwan 2002 Fellowship of Research Visit to the Australian Council for Educational Research, National Science Council, Taiwan 2001 Fellowship of Research Visit to the Australian Council for Educational Research, National Science Council, Taiwan 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Excellence in Research Award (Category A), National Science Council, Taiwan 1994 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 1991~1994 Studying Abroad Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan |
Editorial Board |
Applied Psychological Measurement (associate editor) British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (associate editor) Bulletin of Educational Psychology Chinese Journal of Psychology Educational and Psychological Measurement (2006-2010) International Journal of Quantitative Research in Education (2013-2014) International Journal of Testing Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing Journal of Educational Measurement (2014-2016) Journal of Educational Research and Development |
Guest Editor |
Chinese Journal of Psychology Journal of Educational Research and Development |
Member |
American Educational Research Association American Psychological Association Association for Psychological Science Chinese Association of Psychological Testing Global Association of Chinese Creativity National Council on Measurement in Education Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Society Psychometric Society Taiwan Education Research Association Taiwanese Psychological Association |
Research Interest | Educational and Psychological Measurement, Educational Testing and Assessment, Item Response Theory, Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment, Psychometrics |
No | Role | Title | Source | Duration |
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1 | PI | New Item Response Theory Models for Rater Errors | GRF | 2017.01 ~ 2018.12 |
2 | PI | Advancing Cognitive Diagnosis Models: Developing, Evaluating, and Demonstrating Novel Models and Methods | GRF | 2016.01 ~ 2018.12 |
3 | Co-I | The Role of Mathematics and Chinese Language in Driving Achievement Growth: What Drives What? A Latent Growth Curve Study | GRF | 2016.01 ~ 2017.10 |
4 | Co-I | Automated Scoring of Chinese Composition | TKPEF | 2015.06 ~ 2017.06 |
5 | PI | Developing a New Class of Item Response Theory Models for Ipsative Tests with Forced-Choice Items | GRF | 2014.01 ~ 2015.12 |
6 | Co-I | Development and Validation of the Marital Needs Scale | IRF EdUHK |
2014.06 ~ 2015.10 |
7 | PI | Bullying among Adolescents in Four Chinese Cities | IRF EdUHK |
2012.09 ~ 2014.08 |
8 | PI | Developing a New Class of Item Response Theory Models for Examinee- Selected Items to Ensure Test Fairness | GRF | 2013.01 ~ 2015.06 |
9 | PI | Developing a Framework of Item Response Models for Multifaceted Data | GRF | 2013.01 ~ 2015.06 |
10 | Co-I | Re-validation of the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) and Meta-analysis of Gender-related PIMRS Studies | GRF | 2012.01 ~ 2014.06 |
11 | Co-I | The International Baccalaureate Continuum: Student, Teacher and School Outcomes | IRF EdUHK |
2012.12 ~ 2013.10 |
12 | Co-I | Theory of Mind Development and Use in Children from Hong Kong and the UK-A Latent Variable Study | ESRC/RGC | 2012.10 ~ 2014.06 |
13 | Co-I | Adaptation of Student Research Experience Questionnaire (SREQ) for Evaluation of Higher Degree Research Supervision in HKIEd | IRF EdUHK |
2011.07 ~ 2012.04 |
14 | Co-I | E-Assessment of, for and as Learning in the 21st Century | KTA EdUHK |
2011.01 ~ 2014.06 |
15 | PI | An Innovative Methodology for Data with a Hierarchical Structure and Its Applications and Implications for Policy-formulation | PPRF | 2010.11 ~ 2012.10 |
16 | PI | Building a New Methodology of Assessment of Differential Item Functioning | GRF | 2010.11 ~ 2012.10 |
17 | PI | Person-Item Interaction in Likert Items: Model Development and Operational Issues | GRF | 2010.01 ~ 2011.12 |
18 | PI | Testlet Response Models for Ability-based Guessing: Model Development and Computerized Adaptive Testing | IRF EdUHK |
2009.05 ~ 2010.11 |
19 | Co-I | Quantitative Psychology and Psychometrics | NSC | 2008.12 ~ 2010.11 |
20 | PI | Integration of SEM and IRT: Assessment of Differential Item Functioning with the MIMIC Procedures (II) | NSC | 2008.08 ~ 2009.07 |
21 | PI | General Item Response Models for Person-Item Interaction | NSC | 2008.08 ~ 2009.07 |
22 | Co-I | Developing a Short-Form Functional Assessment System for Stroke Patients | NSC | 2008.08 ~ 2009.07 |
23 | Co-I | Quantitative Psychology and Psychometrics | NSC | 2007.12 ~ 2008.11 |
24 | PI | Integration of SEM and IRT: Assessment of Differential Item Functioning with the MIMIC Procedures (I) | NSC | 2007.08 ~ 2008.07 |
25 | PI | General Item Response Models for Person-Item Interaction | NSC | 2007.08 ~ 2008.07 |
26 | Co-I | Developing a Short-Form Functional Assessment System for Stroke Patients | NSC | 2007.08 ~ 2008.07 |
27 | Co-I | Development of a Refined Version of the Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement Scale for Stroke Patients (III) | NSC | 2007.08 ~ 2008.07 |
28 | Co-I | Development of a Comprehensive ADL Scale for Stroke Paints (II) | NSC | 2006.08 ~ 2007.07 |
29 | Co-I | Developing a Short-Form Functional Assessment System for Stroke Patients | NSC | 2006.08 ~ 2007.07 |
30 | Co-I | Creative Instruction Experiment and Subject Matter Development in Natural Science for Sixth Grade in Elementary School (II) | NSC | 2006.08 ~ 2007.07 |
31 | PI | Multidimensional and Multilevel Item Response Modeling of Rating Scale Data (I) | NSC | 2006.08 ~ 2007.07 |
32 | Co-I | Development of a Refined Version of the Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement Scale for Stroke Patients (II) | NSC | 2006.08 ~ 2007.07 |
33 | PI | Testlet Response Theory: Model Development and Application (II) | NSC | 2006.08 ~ 2007.07 |
34 | Co-I | Self-Evaluation and Measure System on Total Patient Centered Care for Patient Safety | DoH | 2006.01 ~ 2006.12 |
35 | PI | Item Response Models for Non-Ignorable Missing Data | NSC | 2005.08 ~ 2006.07 |
36 | Co-I | Development of a Comprehensive ADL Scale for Stroke Patients (I) | NSC | 2005.08 ~ 2006.07 |
37 | Co-I | Creative Instruction Experiment and Subject Matter Development in Natural Science for Sixth Grade in Elementary School (I) | NSC | 2005.08 ~ 2006.07 |
38 | Co-I | The Discrete Mixtures of IRT Models: An Extension of the Multidimensional Random Coefficients Multinomial Logit Model | NSC | 2005.08 ~ 2006.07 |
39 | Co-I | Development of a Refined Version of the Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement Scale for Stroke Patients (I) | NSC | 2005.08 ~ 2006.07 |
40 | PI | Testlet Response Theory: Model Development and Application (I) | NSC | 2005.08 ~ 2006.07 |
41 | Co-I | Development of a Comprehensive ADL Scale for Stroke Patients | NSC | 2004.08 ~ 2005.07 |
42 | Co-I | Using the Rasch Model to Develop a Balance Scale for Stroke Patients(II) | NSC | 2004.08 ~ 2005.07 |
43 | PI | Formulating Rasch Family Models as Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Implementations and Applications (II) | NSC | 2004.08 ~ 2005.07 |
44 | Co-I | Creative Instruction Experiment and Subject Matter Development in Science:Natural Science in Primary School (Ⅲ) | NSC | 2004.08 ~ 2005.07 |
45 | PI | The Pearson Correlation Coefficient as an Effect Size Measure Within the Framework of Item Response Theory | NSC | 2004.08 ~ 2005.07 |
46 | Co-I | Comparison of Testlet Selection Strategy in Computerized Adaptive Testing | NSC | 2004.08 ~ 2005.07 |
47 | Co-I | A Bayesian Approach to the Testlet Model Where Latent Traits Are Correlated with Random Testlet Effects | NSC | 2004.08 ~ 2005.07 |
48 | Co-I | An Integrated Auditing Model for the Evaluation on Medical Quality in Hospitals at All Levels under Global Budgeting | DoH | 2004.01 ~ 2004.12 |
49 | Co-I | Using the Rasch Model to Develop a Balance Scale for Stroke Patients(I) | NSC | 2003.08 ~ 2004.07 |
50 | PI | Formulating Rasch Family Models as Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Implementations and Applications (I) | NSC | 2003.08 ~ 2004.07 |
51 | Co-I | The Research on Relationships between Physical Fitness Quotient and Intelligence Quotient of Teenagers | NSC | 2003.08 ~ 2004.07 |
52 | Co-I | The Effect of Thinking Style of Teachers and Students on Their Interactions (II) | NSC | 2003.08 ~ 2004.07 |
53 | PI | Evaluation of Academic Journals in Psychology | NSC | 2002.11 ~ 2003.03 |
54 | Co-I | Study of The Concept of Environment Sustainable Development for Teachers-Humanistic Aspect (II) | NSC | 2002.08 ~ 2003.07 |
55 | PI | Detection and Correction of Local Item Dependency (II) | NSC | 2002.08 ~ 2003.07 |
56 | Co-I | Study of the Concept of Environment Sustainable Development for Teachers---Humanistic Aspect (I) | NSC | 2001.08 ~ 2002.07 |
57 | PI | Detection and Correction of Local Item Dependency (I) | NSC | 2001.08 ~ 2002.07 |
58 | Co-I | A Study to Characteristics of Family Violence Perpetrators and Evaluation Instrument for Treatment | NoI | 2001.07 ~ 2002.07 |
59 | Co-I | The Effect of Thinking Style of Teacher and Students on Their Interactions (I) | NSC | 2000.08 ~ 2001.07 |
60 | PI | Between-Item and Within-Item Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Testing (II) | NSC | 2000.08 ~ 2001.07 |
61 | Co-I | A Study of Creative Thinking and Its Correlates for Awarded Teachers in Scientific Competitions | NSC | 1999.08 ~ 2000.07 |
62 | PI | Between-Item and Within-Item Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Testing | NSC | 1999.08 ~ 2000.07 |
63 | Co-I | A Study of Creative Thinking and Its Correlates for Awarded Teachers in Scientific Competitions | NSC | 1998.08 ~ 1999.07 |
64 | PI | Analysis of Differential Distractor Functioning Parameters in MultipleChoice Items | NSC | 1998.08 ~ 1999.07 |
65 | PI | Evaluate, Revise and Develop Verbal Tests for Science Gifted Students Using Item Response Theory (II) | NSC | 1997.08 ~ 1999.07 |
66 | Co-I | Cognitive-Psychometric Modeling in Computerized Adaptive Testing | NSC | 1997.08 ~ 1998.07 |
67 | PI | Evaluate, Revise, and Develop Verbal Tests for Science Gifted Students | NSC | 1996.08 ~ 1997.07 |
68 | PI | A Pilot Study of Developing an Evaluation System for College Students' Career Planning for Becoming Teachers | NSC | 1996.08 ~ 1997.07 |
69 | PI | Rater Severity in Non-Multiple-Choice Items | NSC | 1995.08 ~ 1996.07 |
Note. PI = Principal Investigator; Co-I = Co-investigator; GRF = General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong; PPRF= Public Policy Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong; TKPEF = Tin Ka Ping Education Fund, Hong Kong; ESRC/RGC = Economic & Social Research Council / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme, Hong Kong; KTA = Knowledge Transfer Award, Hong Kong; IRF EdUHK = Internal Research Fund, Education University of Hong Kong; NSC = National Science Council, Taiwan; MoI = Ministry of Interior, Taiwan; DoH = Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan.