Publications

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Journal Papers

Tran, J. E., Yeatman, J. D., Burkhardt, A., Ma, W. A., Mitchell, J., Yablonski, M., Townley-Flores, C., Richie-Halford, A. (2023, December). Development and validation of a rapid online sentence reading efficiency assessment. Prepint

Ma, W. A., Richie-Halford, A., Burkhardt, A., Kanopka K., Chou, C., Domingue, B., Yeatman, J. D. (2023, September). ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability through computerized adaptive testing. Preprint

Gijbels, L., Burkhardt, A., Ma, W. A., & Yeatman, J. D. (2023, February). Rapid Online Assessment of Reading and Awareness (ROAR-PA). Preprint

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

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. 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP. PDF

Matuk, C., Ma, W., Sharma, G., Linn, M. C. (2019). The Lifespan and impact of students’ ideas shared during classroom science inquiry. In K. Lund, G. P. Niccolai, E. Lavoué, C. E. Hmelo-Silver, G. Gweon, M. Baker (Eds.), A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings, 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2019 (Vol. 1, pp. 49-56). Lyon, France: International Society of the Learning Sciences. 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. In M. J. Mohr-Schroeder J. N. Thomas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 116th Annual Convention of the School Science and Mathematics Association (Vol. 4, pp. 14-21).PDF

Conference Presentations

Tran, J. E., Ma, W. A., Gijbels, L., Townley-Flores, C., Siebert, J., Tran, J. E., Murray, T., Fuentes-Jimenez, M., Ramamurthy, M., Richie-Halford, A., & Yeatman, J. (2023). Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR): A platform for developmental cognitive neuroscience research at an unprecedented scale [Poster]. Flux Congress, Santa Rosa, CA, United States.

Ma, W. A., Richie-Halford, A., Burkhardt, A., Kanopka K., Chou, C., Domingue, B., Yeatman, J. D. (2023). ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability through computerized adaptive testing [Poster]. International Meeting of Psychometric Society 2023, Maryland, the USA. Distinguished Poster Award

Ma, W. A., Burkhardt, A. K., Yeatman, J. D. (2023). Exploring parameter invariance for adaptively assessing reading among students with learning differences [eBoard]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting 2023, Chicago, the USA.

Ma, W., Kirch, S. A., Sabouri, P., Zhang, M. (2019). Understanding students’ dialogic learning experience in an emergent transformative science classroom [Poster]. National Association for Researching Science Teaching Annual International Conference 2019, Baltimore, the USA.

Kirch, S. A., Sabouri, P., Zhang, M., Ma, W. (2019). Theory-based design of tools for analyzing learning in educational environments [Oral Presentation]. National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual International Conference 2019. Baltimore, the USA.

Software

jsCAT: Computer Adaptive Testing in JavaScript npm