Conferences
International Presentations & Talks
2025
Cheng, C. (2025, December 4–6). Identifiability of ordinal SEM and item factor analysis [Invited talk]. The 13th Conference of the IASC-ARS, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. https://viasm.edu.vn/en/hdkh/iasc-ars-2025
Cheng, C., Lay, K.-L., Yang, H.-H., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2025, May 1–3). A methodology for addressing the biases resulted in ipsative placement of Q-sort items [Poster presentation]. SRCD 2025 Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. https://www.srcd.org/event/srcd-2025-biennial-meeting/
Cheng, C., Yang, H.-H., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2025, August 29–September 1). When the test information curve misleads [Oral presentation]. The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Behaviormetric Society, Kanagawa, Japan. https://conference.wdc-jp.com/bms/2025/index.html/
Cheng, C., Yang, H.-H., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2025, October 18–19). The universal Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower bound: A genuine efficiency criterion for both biased and unbiased estimators [Oral presentation]. The 64th Annual Convention of the Taiwanese Psychology Association, Tainan, Taiwan.
Cheng, C., Yang, H.-H., Hsu, Y.-F., & Lay, K.-L. (2025, September 5–7). Paradigmatic decisions for measuring choices and preferences: Likert scales, comparative judgments, or combined models? [Poster presentation]. The 89th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Sendai, Japan. https://pub.confit.atlas.jp/ja/event/jpa2025/
2024
Cheng, C., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2024, September 10–13). Integrating power analysis and accuracy in parameter estimation [Poster presentation]. The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Behaviormetric Society, Osaka, Japan. https://conference.wdc-jp.com/bms/2024/index.html/
Cheng, C., Yang, H.-H., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2024, July 16–19). On the existence, uniqueness, and finiteness of MLE of the ability in IRT [Poster presentation]. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2024, Prague, Czech Republic. https://www.psychometricsociety.org/annual-meeting/
Cheng, C., Yang, H.-H., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2024, September 6–8). On the existence and uniqueness of polychoric correlations [Poster presentation]. The 88th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Kumamoto, Japan. https://pub.confit.atlas.jp/ja/event/jpa2024/
Cheng, C., Yang, H.-H., Hsu, Y.-F., & Lay, K.-L. (2024, October 26–27). Two are better than one [Oral presentation]. 2024 Taiwanese Psychology Association Convention, Taipei, Taiwan. https://www.tpa-tw.org/2024main/
Cheng, C., Yang, H.-H., Lay, K.-L., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2024, June 16–20). Predetermined R-squared [Poster presentation]. 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Lisbon, Portugal. https://2024biennial.issbd.org/
2023
Cheng, C., Yang, H.-H., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2023, August 25–28). Identifiability of polychoric models with latent elliptical distributions [Oral presentation]. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2023, College Park, Maryland, United States. https://www.psychometricsociety.org/annual-meeting/
Yang, H.-H., Cheng, C., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2023, August 25–28). Estimates of standard errors and confidence intervals for the ability parameter in the 2PL model with fast and exact parametric bootstrap [Poster presentation]. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2023, College Park, Maryland, United States. https://www.psychometricsociety.org/annual-meeting/
2021
Cheng, C., Huang, Y.-J., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2021, October 16–17). Incorporating response confidence into adaptive methods for threshold estimation [Oral presentation]. 2021 Taiwanese Psychology Association Convention, Virtual. https://www.tpa-tw.org/
Lay, K.-L., Cheng, C., & Huang, S.-Y. (2021, April 7–9). Associations of parental mastery and performance goal orientations and preschoolers' mastery motivation [Conference presentation]. SRCD 2021 Biennial Meeting, Virtual. https://www.srcd.org/event/srcd-2021-biennial-meeting
2020
Cheng, C., Lay, K.-L., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2020, November 18). Can Likert scales predict choices? [Poster presentation]. The 8th Annual Academic Conference on Psychology at NTU, Taipei, Taiwan. Second Place Outstanding Poster Award
2019
Cheng, C., Lay, K.-L., Lin, C. Y., Li, Y. Y., Chang, T. C., Yang, L. J., Chen, H. T., & Wang, Y. J. (2019, August 29–31). Differential SEL effect for children with diverse initial states [Poster presentation]. 7th ENSEC Conference, Budapest, Hungary. https://ensec2019.elte.hu/
2018
Cheng, C., Lay, K.-L., & Hsu, Y.-F. (2018, May 21–25). Do chinese really prioritize effort? Using ordinal paired comparison to investigate students' ideal self and ought self [Oral presentation]. 2018 Academic Conference of Psychology Departments from National Taiwan University, Peking University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
2016
Cheng, C., & Lay, K.-L. (2016, May 23–27). Activation control moderates the relation between motivation and procrastination [Oral presentation]. 2016 Academic Conference of Psychology Departments from National Taiwan University, Peking University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Taipei, Taiwan.
Cheng, C., & Lay, K.-L. (2016, May 23–27). Carry or capsize? the predictive power of fear of failure on college students' procrastination [Poster presentation]. 2016 Academic Conference of Psychology Departments from National Taiwan University, Peking University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Taipei, Taiwan.
2015
Cheng, C., & Lay, K.-L. (2015, October 17–18). Belief in ``no contingency between effort and outcome'' predicts procrastination behavior among gifted high school students. [Oral presentation]. 2015 Taiwanese Psychology Association Convention, Taipei, Taiwan. https://www.facebook.com/taiwanpsy/