David Sul

David Sul, Ed.D., teaches Critical quantitative research methods or QuantCrit for the Educational doctoral program at the University of San Francisco and serves as a psychometrician for the for the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL) housed at the University of the Virgin Islands.

Dr. Sul’s current work and research focuses on the design and development culturally specific assessments (Sul, 2019, 2021), a class of culturally responsive assessments (Hood, 1998), for use within systems of evaluation. His work has been labeled “transformative” by collaborative partners from across North America, Hawaiʻi, 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 is a member of the AEA Diversity Equity and Inclusion Working group.

• Critical quantitative research methods
• Teaching QuantCrit
• Program evaluation

• Culturally specific assessment
• Educational measurement
• QuantCrit

• University of San Francisco, Ed.D. in Education, 2021

• Adjunct Professor in Education, University of San Francisco
• Research Assistant Professor of Measurement, University of the Virgin Islands

• 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.
• 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., & 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.