Our Faculty

Prof. ISHII Hidetoki

Professor of Psychometrics, Department of Psychology and Human Developmental Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University

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Employment History

• Assistant Professor, National Center for University Entrance Examinations, 2001
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, 2004
• Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 2005
• Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2007
• Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2015
• Visiting professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, 2015
• Director, Admission Division, Nagoya University, 2017
• Director, Admissions Group and High School-University Collaboration Group, Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Nagoya University, 2025

Educational History

Ph.D. in Education, University of Tokyo, 2003

Research Interests

• Educational and Psychological Measurement
• Psychological and Educational Statistics
• Data Science
• Test Development
• Item writing
• Admission

Recent Main Publications

• Wu, Q., & Ishii, H. (2025). Decision strategies and influencing factors of international students’ university entrance in Japan. Journal of International Students, 15(10), 61-84. https://doi.org/10.32674/myc3w256
• Huang, S., & Ishii, H. (2025a). A Generalized Multi-Detectors Combination Approach for Differential Item Functioning Detection. Applied Psychological Measurement, 49(3), 75-89. (First published online December 19, 2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01466216241310602
• Huang, S., & Ishii, H. (2025b). Enhancing precision in predicting magnitude of differential item functioning: A M-DIF pre-trained model approach. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 85(2), 384-400. (First published online October 1, 2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644241279882
• Momonoki, S. Y., & Ishii. H. (2023). Modeling the direct and indirect relationships between cognitive style, daily life stress and mental distress. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 13, 100594. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100594
• Terao, T., & Ishii, H. (2020). A comparison of distractor selection among proficiency levels in reading tests: A focus on summarization processes in Japanese EFL learners. SAGE Open, 10, 1-14.
• Ishii,H. (2019). Essentials of statistical analysis and psychometrics in human sciences (Aye Aye Myint & Nu Nu Khaing Trans.). See Sein Publishing: Myanmar.

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