David Chuah Siang Chee

Department of Psychology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

603 East Daniel Street

Champaign IL 61820

Tel: (217) 352 2608 (home), chuah@uiuc.edu

 

Education

 

Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD program (ABD)

Minor: Quantitative Psychology and Human Computer Interaction 

Dissertation Title: Conspiracy Theory: An empirical study of cheating in a continuous testing environment.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

September 2000 – present; degree expected: May 2005

 

 

 

A.M. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003

Masters of Arts in Psychology

Thesis Title: Personality Assessment: Does the Medium Matter? No

Assesses the equivalence of personality assessments across paper-and-pencil, computer laboratory, and Internet administration using IRT methods and criterion validity.

 

B.A. Boston University College of Arts and Science, 1999

Distinction in Psychology

Thesis Title: Visual Foviation As A Factor Of Personality Traits

Summa Cum Laude

Honors Program

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

 

 

 

Chuah, S. C., Drasgow, F., & Luecht, R. M. (in press) How Big is Big Enough? Sample Size Requirements for CAST Item Parameter Estimation, Applied Measurement in Education

 

Drasgow, F. & Chuah, S. C. (in press) Computer Based Testing. Chapter to appear in M. Eid & E. Diener (Eds.), Handbook of Psychological Measurement: A multimethod perspective.

 

Chuah, S. C., Drasgow, F., & Roberts, B. W. (in press) Personality Assessment: Does the Medium Matter? No, Journal of Research in Personality.

Manuscripts In Progress

Benroy-Do, Chuah, S. C. & Drasgow, F. Effects of range restriction on item parameter recovery with multistage adaptive tests.

 

Chuah, S. C. & Bedwell, S. Development of a multimedia assessment of emotional intelligence.

 

Conference Presentations

Chuah, S. C. & Drasgow (2004) Thwarting cheaters on computerized tests. Paper presented at the 19th annual conference for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists. Chicago, April 2- April 4, 2004.

 

Chuah, S. C., Drasgow, F., Luecht, R. M. (2003) Licensure Decision Accuracy as a Function of Item Parameter Estimation Sample Size. Symposium paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL.

 


 

Chuah, S. C. (2003) How to Use Technology to Develop New Assessments. Paper presented at the 18th annual conference for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists. Orlando, April 11- April 13, 2003. 

 

Chuah, S. C., & Roberts, B. (2003) Shortening the Impulsiveness Scale Using Item Response Theory Methods. Paper presented at the 18th annual conference for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists. Orlando, April 11- April 13, 2003.

 

Chuah, S.C., Drasgow, F., & Roberts, B. (2002) Practical Applications of DIF/DTF: The Equivalence of Internet and Paper-and-pencil Personality Assessments. Paper presented at the 17th annual conference for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists. Toronto, Canada, April 12-April 14, 2002

 

Chuah, S.C., Lee, W.C., & Wadlington, P. (2001) The UIUC IRT Web Tutorial. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego , April 27-April 29, 2001

 

Work Experience

Teaching Assistant (Instructor)

University of Illinois (Fall 2004)

Introductory Psychology

University of Illinois

Supervisor: Sandy Goss Lucas

 

 

Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois (Spring 2004)

Research methods in personality

University of Illinois

Supervisor: Brent Roberts

 

 

Research Assistant

University of Illinois (Fall 2000 – Spring 2003)

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Supervisor: Fritz Drasgow

 

 

Network Applications Developer

Boston University (Feb. 1999 - Jan. 2000)

Develop database applications for the Department of the Physical Plant. These include APAS (Employee Benefits Program), Financial Reporting System (Secure Intranet for Financial Services), EASY (Integrated Electronic Employee Timesheet utilizing Electronic ID Cards). Daily maintenance of servers and network administration tasks.

 

 

Database Support and Technical Assistant

Boston University (May 1998 - Jan. 1998)

Provide computer support to employees of the Department of the Physical Plant.

 

 

Drug and Alcohol Counselor (volunteer)

The Medical Foundation, Boston, MA (September 1997-May 1998)

Provide referrals and information regarding available resources for substance abusers in Massachusetts. Basic counseling and crisis intervention over the telephone.

 

 

Drug and Alcohol Counselor (volunteer)

Massachusetts Drug and Alcohol Hotline (Feb. 1997-Aug. 1997)

Responsibilities same as above. Underwent 10 week training program on dealing with addiction and crisis intervention.

 

 

Teaching Assistant (Psychology of Perception)

Perception

Boston University (Sept. 1997 - Dec. 1997)

Supervisor: Takeo Watanabe 

Current Research

Multimedia Interpersonal Skills Assessment

Applications of Item Response Theory in Psychological Measurement

Personality Measurement

Internet-Based Assessment

Video-Based Emotional Intelligence Assessment

Computerized Inbasket Assessment

 

Grants

 

 

 

Special Projects

Center for Human Resources Management (CHRM) Summer 2001/2002

Proposal Title: A Longitudinal Persona-Environment Fit Approach to Understanding Retention of IT Workers

 

Developed automated web server application to conduct questionnaires vie the internet. Currently administering a web server for The Health and Ageing Study of Central Illinois Laboratory.

 

 

Codeveloped a unique experimental station for use with an early version of the ViewPoint EyeTracker (Arrington Research, Inc.), including custom modification of the infrared illumination

 

Memberships And Honors

Incomplete List of Teachers Rated as Excellent (2004)

Phi Beta Kappa (early admission)

Golden Key National Honor Society

Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society

Dean's List

Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists

 

Computer And Technical Skills

 

Software: MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, SAS, SPSS, Visual Interdev, Internet Information Services 5

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server 7.0

Programming Languages: C++, Visual Basic for Applications, HTML, Active Server Pages, VBScript, JavaScript, SQL