Hello, I’m Jinwen Luo.

I earned my PhD at UCLA at Jeon’s Lab. My main work is developing measurement models and examining what assessment scores allow us to infer about a person. I am interested in how models and scoring procedures can support valid and fair interpretations when complex constructs are expressed differently across tasks and settings, or when assessment purposes and scoring criteria change. I am also interested in representing an individual’s profile of abilities as it changes over time. My work is supported by the Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship from ETS.

My interest in assessment began with studying college students’ competency profiles at HUST and SUSTech. I have since worked with the Braille Brain team on reading assessment for students with visual impairments, and with mHTI on research networks and program evaluation.

During my undergraduate years at HUST, I worked with a bunch of geeks at Unique Studio, a student-run community. We learned by building things together and following our interests across disciplines. I learned to start with the people we were building for and the problems they faced. That way of learning and working still shapes how I approach methodological problems.