David Sul

Dr. Sul’s current work and research focuses on the design and development culturally specific assessments, a class of culturally responsive assessments, for use within systems of evaluation. His work has been labeled “transformative” by collaborative partners from across North America, Hawai‘i, and the Caribbean. Sul completed his doctorate in Education at the University of San Francisco and served as the 2021 Chair of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) STEM Topical Interest Group (TIG) and served as a member of the AEA Diversity Equity and Inclusion Working group.

• Critical quantitative methods
• QuantCrit
• Item response theory

• Measurement
• Culturally specific assessment
• Evaluation

• USF, EdD in Education, 2021
• Utah State University, MS in Statistics
• CSU Northridge, BS in Applied Mathematics

• Research Assistant Professor of Measurement, University of the Virgin Islands
• Lecturer in Public Administration, Sonoma State University
• Lecturer in Mathematics, Santa Clara University

• Sul, D. A. (2024). Situating culturally specific assessment development within the disjuncture-response dialectic. In W. P. Fisher Jr. & L. Pendrill (Eds.), Models, Measurement, and Metrology Extending the SI: Trust and Quality Assured Knowledge Infrastructures (pp. 475–500). De Gruyter.
• Sul, D. A., & Domínguez, D. G. (2024). Culturally responsive evaluation with Latinx communities through culturally specific assessment: Building the Latinx immigration trauma assessment. New Directions for Evaluation, 2024(181), 103–112. 
• Sul, D. A. (2021). Indigenous assessment developers on elements of the disjuncture-response dialectic: A critical comparative case study [Doctoral dissertation, University of San Francisco].
• Sul, D. A. (2019, March). Reclaiming educational autonomy and minimizing measurement disjuncture through a culturally specific assessment development process. [Paper presentation]. Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) Conference 2019, Chicago, IL.