Publications
*These authors contributed equally to this work
Journal Articles
Ma, W. A., Jimenez, M., Siebert, J. M., Saavedra, A., Townley-Flores, C., Richie-Halford, A., Domingue, B. W., & Yeatman, J. D. (in press). Improving validity and efficiency of digital dyslexia screening through trial by trial feedback. Psychological Assessment. PDF
Smith, G., Bassoli, E., Ozturk, Y., Arteaga-Garcia, E., Ma, W. A., ROAR Data Consortium, I-RiD Consortium, Yeatman, J. D., Mastrogiuseppe, M., & Caffarra, S. (2026). Similarities (and differences) in the learning patterns of single-word reading of an alphabetic orthography in monolingual and bilingual primary school children: A cross-sectional study. Brain Sciences, 16(4), 356.
Ma, W. A., Richie-Halford, A., Burkhardt, A. K., Kanopka, K., Chou, C., Domingue, B. W., & Yeatman, J. D. (2025). ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability with Computerized Adaptive Testing. Behavior Research Methods, 57(1), 1-17. PDF
Gijbels, L., Burkhardt, A., Ma, W. A., & Yeatman, J. D. (2024). Rapid online assessment of reading and phonological awareness (ROAR-PA). Scientific Reports, 14(1), 10249. PDF
Yeatman, J. D., Tran, J. E., Burkhardt, A. K., Ma, W. A., Mitchell, J., Yablonski, M., Gijbels, L., Townley-Flores, C., & Richie-Halford, A. (2024). Development and validation of a rapid and precise online sentence reading efficiency assessment. Frontiers in Education, 9, 1494431. PDF
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
Ma, W. A., Flor, M., & Wang, Z. (2025). Automatic generation of inference making questions for reading comprehension assessments. 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. PDF
Tan, A. W. M., Yu, S., Long, B., Ma, W. A., Murray, T., Silverman, R. D., Yeatman, J. D., & Frank, M. C. (2024). Devbench: A multimodal developmental benchmark for language learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. PDF
Zelikman, E.*, Ma, W. A.*, Tran, J. E., Yang, D., Yeatman, J. D., & Haber, N. (2023). Generating and evaluating tests for K-12 students with language model simulations: A case study on sentence reading efficiency. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2190-2205. PDF
Matuk, C., Ma, W., Sharma, G., & Linn, M. C. (2019). The lifespan and impact of studentsā€™ ideas shared during classroom science inquiry. Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference for Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 49-56. PDF Best Paper Nomination
Ma, W. (2017). A computer tool that will allow secondary science teachers to differentiate reading materials for students with varied reading abilities. Proceedings of the 116th Annual Convention of the School Science and Mathematics Association, 14-21. PDF
Preprints and Under Review
Ma, W. A., Domingue, B. W., Lichand, G., Roncete, K., Klotz, L., Townley-Flores, C., Richie-Halford, A., & Yeatman, J. D. (2026). From the lab to the classroom: Bridging psychophysics and psychometrics to improve adaptive dyslexia screening. PDF
Long, B., Ma, W. A., Tan, A. W. M., Silverman, R., Frank, M. C., & Yeatman, J. D. (2025). Developmental changes in the precision of visual concept knowledge. PDF
Ma, W. A., Liu, Y., Kanopka, K., Ma, W., & Domingue, B. W. (2025). A comparison of the predictive performance of continuous and class-based latent trait models. PDF
Roncete, K., Klotz, L., Ma, W. A., Arteaga, E., Alves, L., Chrispim, R., Diniz, D., Yeatman, J., & Lichand, G. (2025). The opportunities and challenges of digital assessments in low-resource settings: Evidence from measuring reading fluency in Brazil. PDF
Bhat, K. G., Mogan, A. D., Saavedra, A., Fuentes-Jimenez, M., Siebert, J. M., Ma, W. A., Townley-Flores, C., Richie-Halford, A., Wilkey, E. D., & Yeatman, J. (2024). Shared and unique influences of phonological processing on reading and math. PDF
He-Yueya, J., Ma, W. A., Gandhi, K., Domingue, B. W., Brunskill, E., & Goodman, N. D. (2024). Psychometric alignment: Capturing human knowledge distributions via language models. PDF
Siebert, J. M., Fuentes-Jimenez, M., Ma, W. A., Saavedra, A., Townley-Flores, C., & Yeatman, J. (2024). A fair lexical decision task for monolingual and multilingual Spanish-speakers. PDF
Open Software
Ma, W. A., Yeatman, J. D., & Richie-Halford, A. (2023). jsCAT: Computer adaptive testing in JavaScript [Open-source software]. GitHub