Doctoral Research Assistant
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Ernest Yaw Amoateng is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology in the College of Education and Human Development, Western Michigan University. He earned his Master of Philosophy in Educational Measurement and Evaluation from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Ernest has served as a lecturer at Accra College of Education and a part-time lecturer at some other Universities in Ghana. Ernest’s research interest broadly centers on Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Methods in Education and Psychology. Specifically, Ernest’s research focuses on the following areas:
1. Program, Product, and Personnel Evaluation
Focused on these three distinct types of evaluations in education to assess the effectiveness, quality, and performance of different aspects of an organization or initiative.
2. Socio-culturally responsive assessment
Developing sound principles of assessment design that will yield sociocultural responsive assessment. Thus, assessments that are accessible to test takers from a wide range of backgrounds, and for which the content and structure enhance the test taker’s ability to show what they know and can do.
3. Applied Psychometrics
Focused on the application of innovative solutions that result in improvements to operational psychometric methods and procedures related to large-scale group-score assessment, equating and scaling, item and test analyses, measurement error, and reliability, score equity, quality assurance, and scoring, and scaling of complex item types.
4. Utility of AI in Evaluation and Measurement in Education
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Program Evaluation: Telling the Story of Programs Serving New and Immigrant Students
Thursday, October 12, 2023
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Application of Weight and Sum Methodology to Product Evaluations: Key Lessons Learned
Friday, October 13, 2023
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET