Mark Gierl

Mark GierlDr. Mark J. Gierl is Professor of Educational Psychology and the Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation (CRAME) at the University of Alberta. His specialization is educational and psychological testing, with an emphasis on the application of cognitive principles to assessment practices. Professor Gierl’s current research is focused on automatic item generation and automated essay scoring. His research is funded by the Medical Council of Canada, Elsevier, ACT Inc., and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Dr. Gierl holds the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Educational Measurement.

Publications

Automatic Item Generation
Mark Gierl, Hollis Lai, Xinxin Zhang. © 2019. 12 pages.
Changes to the design and development of educational tests are resulting in the unprecedented demand for a large supply of content-specific test items. One way to address this...
Automatic Item Generation
Mark Gierl, Hollis Lai, Xinxin Zhang. © 2018. 11 pages.
Changes to the design and development of educational tests are resulting in the unprecedented demand for a large supply of content-specific test items. One way to address this...
Using Computerized Formative Testing to Support Personalized Learning in Higher Education: An Application of Two Assessment Technologies
Mark Gierl, Okan Bulut, Xinxin Zhang. © 2018. 21 pages.
Computerized testing provides many benefits to support formative assessment in higher education. However, the advent of computerized formative testing has raised daunting new...
Using Automated Procedures to Generate Test Items That Measure Junior High Science Achievement
Mark Gierl, Syed F. Latifi, Hollis Lai, Donna Matovinovic, Keith A. Boughton. © 2016. 21 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is to describe and illustrate a template-based method for automatically generating test items. This method can be used to produce a large numbers of...