Amin Mousavi
Associate Professor, Department Head, Educational Psychology & Special Education

Dr. Mousavi is an Assistant Professor of Psychometrics, Classroom Assessment, and Measurement at the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education, College of Education, U of S. His main area of interest for teaching and research is quantitative methodology in Social and behavioral sciences. He conducts research in the area of educational and psychological measurement with a focus on person fit analysis, parameter estimation and computer assisted testing/assessment; unidimentional and multidimentional Item Response Theory; psychometrics of instrument development; Latent variable modeling; Educational Data Mining; Application of advanced statistical techniques such as multigroup, mutlilevel and mixture modeling.
For more information, please visit Dr. Mousavi's personal webpage: Amin Mousavi

• PhD. in Measurement, Evaluation and Cognition. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Canada, 2015
• B.A. Educational Research, University of Tehran, Tehran, 2008
• B.S. Applied Physics, Payam-e-Nur University, Ahwaz, 2005

Undergraduate Teaching 

• EPSE 202 – Psychological basis of teaching and learning
• EPSE 348 – Essentials of assessing student learning
• EPSE 411 – Inquiry in Education

Graduate Teaching

• ERES 800 - Research Methods Introductory
• ERES 841 - Advanced Statistical Research Methods
• EPSE 843 - Theory of Educational and Psychological Measurement

• Statistical Methods in Education & Psychology
• Latent variable modeling
• Educational Measurement and Psychometrics
• Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics

• Wang, Q., (In Progress).  [PhD] Department of Educational Psychology & Special Education, University of Saskatchewan.
• Friesen, D., (In Progress). Conceptualizing Assessment Literacy in higher Education, [MEd] Department of Educational Psychology & Special Education, University of Saskatchewan.
• Schmidt, M. (2019). Challenges for Chinese international university graduate students in Canadian anglophone classrooms. [MEd] Department of Educational Psychology & Special Education, University of Saskatchewan.

• • Executive Officer, Canadian Educational Research Association (CERA), Canadian Society for the Study of Education, June 2017 to May 2019.
  • Committee Member, U of S SSHRC College of Reviewers, Office of the Vice-President Research, University of Saskatchewan.
  • Committee Member, Awards Committee of the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Saskatchewan, July 2017 to June 2019.
  • Committee Member, U of S NSERC College of Reviewers, Office of the Vice-President Research, University of Saskatchewan, August 2016 to September 2016.
  • Chair, Governance Committee, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan.

• Mousavi, A., Schmidt, M., Squires, V. & Willson, K. (2020). Assessing the effectiveness of Student Advice Recommender Agent (SARA): the case of automated personalized feedback, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.
• Zeynivandnezhad, F., Mousavi, A. & Kotabe, H. (2020). The Mediating Effect of Deep Vs Superficial Study Approaches on the Relationships Between Perceptions of Mathematics and Experiences Using Digital Learning Technologies, Computers in the Schools.
• Mousavi, A., Shojaee, M., Shahidi, M., Cui, Y. & Kutcher, S. (2019). Measurement invariance and psychometric analysis of Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale across gender and marital status. Journal of Affective Disorders.
• Mousavi, A., Cui, Y., Rogers, T. (2018). An Examination of Different Methods of Setting Cutoff Values in Person Fit Research, International Journal of Testing,1-22.

• • Mousavi, A., Dunlop, B. & Farkasdi, S. (June 2020). Exploring students' knowledge structure: application of Knowledge Space Theory using TIMMS data. 48th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), London, ON, May 30, 2020 to June 4, 2020.
  • Wang, Q., Mousavi, A. & Lu, C. (June 2020). Exploring methods of analyzing log file data for learning analytics: A literature review. 48th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), London, ON, May 30, 2020 to June 4, 2020.
  • Friesen, D. & Mousavi, A. (June 2020). Assessment Literacy in Higher Education. 48th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), London, ON, May 30, 2020 to June 4, 2020.
  • Schmidt, M., Mousavi, A., Squires, V. & Wilson, K. (April 2019). Using Different Matching Protocols to assess the Effectiveness of Personalized Feedback in Web-based Learning. 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto, ON, April 5, 2019 to April 9, 2019.