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Li Cai

Associate Professor

Co-director, CRESST

Education Department

Advanced Quantitative Methods in Education Research Program

Social Research Methodology Division

Moore Hall 2022A
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles , CA 90095-1521

Email: lcai@ucla.edu

Phone: (310) 206-0583

Personal Site

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1. Ph.D., Quantitative Psychology, 2008, University of North Carolina

Awards, Honors, Fellowships

2007 ETS, Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship

2009 AERA, Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award

2010 NCME, Brenda H. Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award

2011 APA, Anne Anastasi Early Career Award

2011 Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Elected Member

2012 Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Cattell Early Career Award

2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Teaching and Research Interests

psychometrics, latent variable models, item response theory, nonlinear models, statistical computation

Expertise

Assessment

Testing

Research Methods

Statistics

Select Publications

Cai, L., Yang, J. S. & Hansen, M. (2011). Generalized full-information item bifactor analysis. Psychological Methods, 16, 221-248.

Cai, L. (2010). Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro algorithm for confirmatory item factor analysis. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 35, 307-335.

Cai, L. (2010). A two-tier full-information item factor analysis model with applications. Psychometrika, 75, 581-612.

Cai, L. (2010). High-dimensional exploratory item factor analysis by a Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro algorithm. Psychometrika, 75, 33-57.

Cai, L., & Lee, T. (2009). Covariance structure model fit testing under missing data: An application of the supplemented EM algorithm. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44, 281-304.