Professor Zhang Quan (Ph.D.), got his BA from English Department of HeBei University in 1978, China, MA from MA program of applied linguistics, Northwest Polytechnic University (NPU), Xi’an, China in 1986 and PhD from PhD program of applied linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 1993. Currently he is a visiting professor at South China Business College (SCBC) of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. From 2012, he serves as the Secretary-General of the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Society (PROMS) for mainland China. Previously he served as a member of the Foreign Language Teaching Steering Committee for Higher Vocational Colleges under the Ministry of Education, and as the Deputy Chief Examiner of CET-4 and CET-6 in Guangdong Province, China. He has also been a veteran test item producer for large-scale examination at the Examination Center under the Ministry of Education, China. He is the first senior visiting scholar (2002) from mainland China invited by ETS and a senior research scholar (2006-2009) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. From 2013 to 2019, he also worked as PhD supervisor at the City University of Macau, China.

Research Interests

Professor Zhang Quan’s research interests cover teaching and researching in computerized cognitive testing, CAT, IRT, Rasch Measurement, techniques for item analysis and test equating. He is the key member undertaking practical data analysis for the ten-year MET equating project (1990-1999) sponsored by the National Education Examinations Authority, China.

In 2019, as the chief expert, Prof. Zhang led a team to have successfully developed and updated the Rasch-GZ system for item analysis and test equating based on Rasch model. Incorporated with AI applications, this system platform has obtained the Computer Software Copyright Registration Certificate issued by the China National Copyright Administration. The system can process data matrix of unlimited items by unlimited subjects and automatically generate any language that users prefer to have in the output files, thus widely used in academic circles in the Pacific Rim countries and regions. Apart from this, Prof. Zhang has published some papers in both domestic and international academic journals, several monographs and translations by Taylor & Francis, the Spring Nature and other publishers. Ever since 2012, he has been serving as a perennial reviewer for several SSCI journals such as Educational Psychology, Frontiers, etc. Prof. Zhang’s research and application in the Rasch model have been widely recognized by international Rasch peers. So far, he has supervised several MA and PhD students in the field of language testing research.

Selected Publications

Zhang, Q. (2025). Rasch Model for Language Testing: Advances of PROMS and Rasch-GZ with Use Cases. Taylor & Francis, (CRC).

https://www.vitalsource.com/en-uk/products/rasch-model-for-language-testing-quan-zhang-v9781040617700

https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003665595

Zhang, Q. (2023). RASCH-GZ (Version 2.0) [Computer software].

 https://www.rasch-gz.com

Zhang, Q. (Ed.). (2024). Proceedings of Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS 2023) AP/Springer Nature.

https://atlantis-press.com/proceedings/proms-23

Zhang, Q. (2019). Rasch Model：Research and Practice in China. In Myint Swe Khine (Ed.). International Trends in Educational Assessment. Brill〡Sense. Retrieved from http://catalog.loc.gov.

Zhang, Q. (Ed.). (2018). Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2016 Conference Proceeding. The Springer Nature.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8138-5

Mok, M.M.C., & Zhang, Q. (2018). Introduction to Rasch Measurement. ISBN 978-1-934116-13-5. JAM Press. P.O. Box 1283 Maple Grove, MN55311. USA.

Mok, M.M.C., & Zhang, Q. (Eds.). (2015). Constructing Variables. Book of Abstracts Vol. I. Journal of Applied Measurement. ISBN 978-1-934116-11-1. JAM Press. P. O. Box 1283 Maple Grove, MN55311. USA.

Zhang, Q. (Ed.). (2016). Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2015 Conference Proceeding. The Springer Nature.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1687-5.

Zhang, Q., & Yang, H. (Eds.) (2015). Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2014 Conference Proceeding. The Springer Nature.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47490-7.

Zhang, Q., & Zhang, T.T. (2015). Rasch Model: Status Quo and Prospect in China. In Zhang & Yang. (Eds.). Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2014 Conference Proceedings. The Springer Nature. (pp. 17–24). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47490-7.

Mok, M.M.C., & Zhang, Q. (Eds.). (2014). Constructing Variables. Book of Abstracts Vol. II. Journal of Applied Measurement. ISBN 978-1-934116-10-4. JAM Press. P. O. Box 1283 Maple Grove, MN55311. USA.

Zhang, Q. (2013). Towards International Practice of Language Testing in China. Keynote speech given at the PROMS2012. Jiaxing, China, August 6–9, 2012. In Zhang & Yang (Eds.), Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2012 Conference Proceedings. The Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37592-7.

Zhang, Q., & Yang, H. (Eds.) (2013). Pacific-Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2012 Conference Proceeding. The Springer Nature.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37592-7.

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