Okan Bulut, University of Alberta

Research

classroom assessment assessment literacy professional development teacher education decision-making

Latest papers

Factors associated with willingness of people who smoke unregulated drugs to use supervised inhalation sites.
The International journal on drug policy · 2026
Revisiting the knowledge concept of mental health literacy and its relationships with stigma.
Scientific reports · 2026
Scale abbreviation with supervised machine learning: A comparison of feature selection techniques.
Behavior research methods · 2026

All 31 publications

Latest funding

Improving Canadian teachers' assessment literacy and decision-making through self-directed professional development
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$57,459
Improving Canadian teachers' assessment literacy and decision-making through self-directed professional development
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$26,178
Examining parent-child play types, duration, and engagement with loose parts: How parental income, educational attainment, and children's age and cognitive functioning shape loose parts play
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$45,142

All 7 grants and awards

31 publications.

01

Factors associated with willingness of people who smoke unregulated drugs to use supervised inhalation sites.

Connolly D, Salvalaggio G, Bulut O, Cottrell-McDermott C, Hyshka E, Taylor M, Piggott B, Staines A, Issa T, Collins Z, Gehring ND, Twan S, Morris H

The International journal on drug policy2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105445 PMID: 42537554

02

Revisiting the knowledge concept of mental health literacy and its relationships with stigma.

Wei Y, Sha L, McWeeny R, Johnston K, Bulut O, Cao B, Zhang Y, Baxter A, Carr W, Greenshaw A, Silverstone P, Kutcher S

Scientific reports2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-50222-w PMID: 42034808

03

Scale abbreviation with supervised machine learning: A comparison of feature selection techniques.

Li W, Bulut O, Gierl MJ, Zhang S

Behavior research methods2026

DOI: 10.3758/s13428-025-02913-x PMID: 41612001

04

Loose parts play encourages spontaneous science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) behaviours.

Cankaya O, Rohatyn-Martin N, Buro K, Bulut O, Taylor K

Communications psychology2025

DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00362-y PMID: 41350933

05

Neighbourhood Social Influences on Loneliness in Older Immigrants in Two Canadian Provinces.

Mazzullo E, Salma J, Walsh C, Au A, Sidani S, Agrawal S, Bulut O, Guruge S

Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement2025

DOI: 10.1017/s0714980825100068 PMID: 40747613

06

Shortening Psychological Scales: Semantic Similarity Matters.

Kilmen S, Bulut O

Educational and psychological measurement2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/00131644251319047 PMID: 40012764

07

The Value of Individual Screen Response Time in Predicting Student Test Performance: Evidence from TIMSS 2019 Problem Solving and Inquiry Tasks.

Tan B, Bulut O

Journal of Intelligence2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence13070082 PMID: 40710815

08

Children's perspective-taking and decision-making on forests and land use.

Kim M, Ahmed N, Akdemir K, Wong S, Bulut O

Disciplinary and interdisciplinary science education research2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s43031-025-00130-2 PMID: 40444186

09

Does higher endorsement with collaboration lead to better performance on collaborative problem solving? An explanatory item response approach to cross-cultural comparisons.

Lu C, Bulut O

Frontiers in psychology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1468533 PMID: 39582991

10

Psycho-Educational Assessments: Theory and Practice.

Bulut O

Journal of Intelligence2024First author

DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence12030031 PMID: 38535165

Improving Canadian teachers' assessment literacy and decision-making through self-directed professional development

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bulut, Okan

Keywords: classroom assessment; assessment literacy; professional development; teacher education; decision-making

$57,459

Improving Canadian teachers' assessment literacy and decision-making through self-directed professional development

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bulut, Okan

Keywords: classroom assessment; assessment literacy; professional development; teacher education; decision-making

$26,178

Examining parent-child play types, duration, and engagement with loose parts: How parental income, educational attainment, and children's age and cognitive functioning shape loose parts play

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Cankaya, Ozlem

Keywords: play; young children; loose parts; toys; materials; parents; engagement; play types

$45,142

Enhancing students' reasoning and decision making skills: Science, values, and contradictions in socioscientific contexts

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kim, Mijung

Keywords: values-based science education; students' reasoning and decision making; climate change; socioscientific argumentation; curriculum innovations

$55,803

Understanding Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises: The Role of Contagion, Information, and Liquidity Support

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Szkup, Michal

Keywords: sovereign debt crises; self-fulfilling beliefs; global games; contagion; liquidity support; information acquisition

$46,918

Preparing cities for climate change

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Op. Gr.: Data Anal. Using Existing Data./Cohorts - HC Interv. Res. General Pool

Principal investigators: Yamamoto, Shelby; Liang, Haidong

Keywords: Air Pollution; Climate Change; Health; Immigrants; Older Adults; Vulnerability

$98,271

Developing an Interactive Score Reporting System to Improve the Quality of Formative Feedback in Higher Education

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: BULUT, OKAN

Keywords: (1) Formative assessment; (2) Higher education; (3) Computer-based testing; (4) Feedback; (5) Score reporting

$59,994

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Occupational Therapy
Medicine
Measurement and Evaluation
Exceptional, Special Education
Educational Psychology
Computer Assisted Instruction and Learning
Pediatrics
Other

Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Ozlem Cankaya

Educational Psychology

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Natalia Rohatyn-Martin

Exceptional, Special Education

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Ying Cui

Computer Assisted Instruction and Learning

2 shared papers, latest 2022

Bo Cao

Occupational Therapy

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Andrew Greenshaw

Occupational Therapy

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Yanbo Zhang

Occupational Therapy

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Erin McCabe

Physical Therapy

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Hollis Lai

Mike Petryk School of Dentistry

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Christine Walsh

Calgary Campus

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Sandeep Agrawal

Social/Cultural Geography

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Souraya Sidani

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Paper to mentionMention their SSHRC grant from 2023

Subject: Prospective PhD student: classroom assessment Dear Professor Bulut, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Factors associated with willingness of people who smoke unregulated drugs to use supervised inhalation sites." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Improving Canadian teachers' assessment literacy and decision-making through self-directed professional development" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

Okan Bulut

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Factors associated with willingness of people who smoke unregulated drugs to use supervised inhalation sites.

Revisiting the knowledge concept of mental health literacy and its relationships with stigma.

Scale abbreviation with supervised machine learning: A comparison of feature selection techniques.

Loose parts play encourages spontaneous science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) behaviours.

Neighbourhood Social Influences on Loneliness in Older Immigrants in Two Canadian Provinces.

Shortening Psychological Scales: Semantic Similarity Matters.

The Value of Individual Screen Response Time in Predicting Student Test Performance: Evidence from TIMSS 2019 Problem Solving and Inquiry Tasks.

Children's perspective-taking and decision-making on forests and land use.

Does higher endorsement with collaboration lead to better performance on collaborative problem solving? An explanatory item response approach to cross-cultural comparisons.

Psycho-Educational Assessments: Theory and Practice.

Improving Canadian teachers' assessment literacy and decision-making through self-directed professional development

Improving Canadian teachers' assessment literacy and decision-making through self-directed professional development

Examining parent-child play types, duration, and engagement with loose parts: How parental income, educational attainment, and children's age and cognitive functioning shape loose parts play

Enhancing students' reasoning and decision making skills: Science, values, and contradictions in socioscientific contexts

Understanding Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises: The Role of Contagion, Information, and Liquidity Support

Preparing cities for climate change

Developing an Interactive Score Reporting System to Improve the Quality of Formative Feedback in Higher Education

Frequent collaborators

Ozlem Cankaya

Natalia Rohatyn-Martin

Jordana Salma

Ying Cui

Elaine Hyshka

Peter Silverstone

Ginetta Salvalaggio

Bo Cao

Andrew Greenshaw

Yanbo Zhang

Alvaro Osornio Vargas

Bernadette Quemerais

Erin McCabe

Shanell Twan

Hollis Lai

Christine Walsh

Sandeep Agrawal

Mijung Kim

Marliss Taylor

Souraya Sidani