UW–Madison’s Tai Sun Jeong, a PhD student in the Quantitative Methods area in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, won first place in the 2026 Graduate Student eBoard Competition hosted by the Graduate Student Issues Committee at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting.
The competition was designed to showcase innovative graduate student research and provide valuable professional development opportunities. Students presented their work through digital poster displays, or “eBoards,” and were evaluated on conceptual framing and significance, methodological rigor, visual and narrative coherence, and oral communication and dialogue.
Although many students submitted proposals and presented at the NCME Annual Meeting, only a select group — representing over 20 institutions nationwide — were chosen for the competition based on reviewer scores. Jeong received first place for his presentation, “Validating a Behavioral Measure of Test-taking Engagement: A Latent Regression Approach.”
According to NCME, Jeong’s research focuses on test security, aberrant test-taking behaviors, and process data analytics. Before joining UW–Madison, he earned a master’s degree from the Korea National University of Education and worked at the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation.
Read about the 2026 Graduate Student eBoard Competition.