Thesis projects

Atta, George Boateng

• Title: Properties of Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimators in a Multiple-Group Item Response Model. Effects of Many Groups, Missing Data, Test Length and Small Sample Sizes
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Björn Andersson (CEMO) and Doctoral Research Fellow Lu Zhang (CEMO)

Edvardsen, Ludvik

• Title: Doing Meta-Meta Right. Developing and Evaluating a Checklist for Assessing the Quality of Second-Order Meta-Analyses.
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ronny Scherer (CEMO) and Postdoctoral Researcher Valentin Emslander (Justus Liebig University Giessen) 

Matejko, Ylva Zoe

• Title: Treating Item Omissions with a Modified Laplace Smoothing Approach. Consequences for Country-Level Conclusions in International Large-Scale Assessments
  • Supervised by: Professor Esther Ulitzsch (CEMO)

Rucinska, Aleksandra Wanda

• Title: When Measurement Quality Limits Prediction: Evaluating Extreme Gradient Boosting Under Unaccounted-for Measurement Error
  • Supervised by: Professor Esther Ulitzsch (CEMO)

Straten, Luisa Thor

• Title: Gender Differences in Item Nonresponse in the TIMSS 2023 Student Questionnaire
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Johan Braeken (CEMO) and Postdoctoral Fellow Kseniia Marcq (CEMO)

Kalchenko, Olena

• Title: Decomposing the Decline in Norway’s Mathematics Performance: PISA 2012 vs. 2022
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Vegar Olsen (CEMO) and Doctoral Research Fellow Jacopo Francesco Taraldsrud Løkken (CEMO)

Plance, Raphael An-Nunang

• Title: Examining the Association Between School Climate and Early Grade Reading Proficiency: A Multilevel Analysis of South African PIRLS Data Before and After COVID-19
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ronny Scherer (CEMO)

Bilberg, Simen

• Title: Exploring Gender Specific Patterns in Health Measurement: A Machine Learning Approach to the Predictive Validity of Self-Reported Health
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Johan Braeken (CEMO) and Senior Psychology adviser Tore Nøttestad Norrønne (Norwegian Armed Forces)

Dåvang, Emmelin Sarah

• Title: Resilient Minds: A Machine Learning Comparative Study of Academic Resilience in Science Among 8th Grade Students in Norway and Malaysia
  • Supervised by: Associate Professor Esther Ulitzsch (CEMO)

Georgieva, Milena Andonova

• Title: Probing Robustness of Machine Learning Models for Academic Resilience in a Bulgarian Context
  • Supervised by: Associate Professor Esther Ulitzsch (CEMO)

Goian, Ancuta-Maria

• Title: Solution Patterns is a Problem-Solving Task: Consistency Across Educational Systems
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Björn Andersson (CEMO) and Maoxin Zhang (The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training)

Løkken, Jacopo Francesco Taraldsrud

• Title: Handling missing data in Random Forests
  • Supervised by: Associate Professor Esther Ulitzsch (CEMO) and Prof. Dr. Johan Braeken (CEMO)

Mannsaaker, Thea Aurora Hillingseter

• Title: Unravelling Norway`s Mathematics Decline: A Cross-Country Decomposition of Mathematical Literacy in PISA 2022
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Vegar Olsen (CEMO)

Meng, Xianqiao

• Title: Longitudinal Associations Between Teachers’ Integration of Technology in Classrooms, Self efficacy, and Perceived Usefulness: A Cross-Lagged Panel Approach
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ronny Scherer (CEMO)

Olivera Toro Lopez, Manuel Mario

• Title: When Measurement Decisions Shape Findings: A Multiverse Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and Science Achievement in TIMSS 2019 Data from Norway and Chile.
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Johan Braeken (CEMO) and Dr. Rolf Strietholt (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement)

Sakyar, Rayad

• Title: Teachers and Technology: A Longitudinal Investigation of Attitudes, Perceived Usefulness, and Ease of Use
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ronny Scherer (CEMO)

Sher, Noorulhuda 

• Title: Evaluating Measurement Invariance in the Norwegian Pupil Survey: A Cross-Grade Comparison between Grade 7 and Grade 10
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Vegar Olsen (CEMO)

Thunem, Ane Fjermestad

• Title: Addressing Local Item Dependence in Reading Assessments: A Bifactor Model Evaluation of the Norwegian National Reading Test
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Björn Andersson (CEMO) and Maoxin Zhang (The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training)

Battogtokh, Oyun-Erdene

• Title: Examining the Moderating Role of School Resources on the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Math Achievement: Insights from PISA 2022
  • Supervised by: Associate Professor David Rutkowski (Indiana University Bloomington) 

Brunborg, Magnus Breigutu

• Title: Exploration of Test-Taking Dynamics: Socioeconomic Factors and Motivation Among Scandinavian Students in PISA 2018
  • Supervised by: Associate Professor David Rutkowski (Indiana University Bloomington) 

Effum, Clifford

• Title: Linking with randomly assigned anchor items: Evaluating a new linking design for the Norwegian National Numeracy Test
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Björn Andersson (CEMO) and Ga Young Yoon (The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training)

Krog, Maria Mehammer

• Title: Evaluation of Measurement Invariance - A Validation Study of the Norwegian Student Survey
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Vegar Olsen (CEMO) and Doctoral Research Fellow Tony Tan (CEMO)

Lööf, Fanny 

• Title: Science Achievement Gaps Through an Intersectional Lens: An Intersectional Approach to Differential Item Functioning Evaluation for TIMSS 2019 Science Assessment in Sweden
  • Supervised by: Doctoral Research Fellow Yuriko Kirilovna Sosa Paredes (CEMO) and Prof. Dr. Björn Andersson (CEMO)

Morken, Håkon 

• Title: Change in Big Five Personality for Patients with Personality Disorders
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Johan Braeken (CEMO) and Senior research fellow, MD, PhD Benjamin Hummelen (Oslo University Hospital).

Nery, Emily Rose Cruz

• Title: Examiner Cut Score Stringency in the OSCE: A Simulation Study Exploring the Impact of Differential Examiner Stringency in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination under a Borderline Regression Method of Standard Setting
  • Supervised by: Associate Professor Stefan Schauber (CEMO) and Associate professor Matt Homer (University of Leeds) 

Pasha, Monirul Hoque

• Title: Cross-National Variations in Self-Efficacy and Attitudes Towards ICT Use in Teaching: An Integrative Data Analysis Across ICILS Countries
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Ronny Scherer (CEMO) and Dr. Diego Gonzalez Campos (CEMO).

Puck, Morten Rasmus

• Title: Non-genuine responses and how to find them
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Bryan Maddox (University of Cambridge) and Doctoral Research Fellow Tony Tan (CEMO). 

Stensrud, Ingrid Elisabeth 

• Title: Using Machine Learning for a More Efficient Selection of Conscripts in the Norwegian Armed Forces
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Johan Braeken (CEMO) and Doctoral Research Fellow Tore Nøttestad Norrøne (Norwegian Armed Forces) 

Zhang, Lu

• Title: Benefits of Multi-stage Testing in the Norwegian National Numeracy Tests
  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Björn Andersson (CEMO) and Ga Young Yoon (The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training)

Hossein, Sujon

• Title: Switching from a linear to a multi-stage to a fully adaptive test administration: A hybrid simulation study for the Norskprøven reading comprehesion test

  • Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Johan Braeken (CEMO) and Arne Oftedal Rossow (Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills).

Bredal, Morten

• Title: Who Becomes a Teacher or a Doctor? A Mixed Effect Model Approach to Analyzing the Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement and Gender of Students who Enter Medical and Teaching Educations in Norway (2013-2019)

  • Supervised by Associate Professor Stefan Schauber (CEMO) and Dr. Tim Fütterer (University of Tübingen)