MUTASEM MOHAMMAD MAHMOUD AKOUR

Mutasem Mohammad Mahmoud Akour	Professor
Educational Measurement and Statistics	Measurement and Statistics
Faculty of Educational Sciences	Department of Educational Psychology
mutasem@hu.edu.jo	http://staff.hu.edu.jo/mutasem
ORCID ID : 22522388
Office No. : 339 .Alhareth 4th	EXT : 4888

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Ph.D.	The University of Iowa	The United States of America,2006
Master	Yarmouk University	Jordan,1998
Bachelor	Yarmouk University	Jordan,1990

*	Validation Studies
*      Rasch Analysis
*      Scale Development

Akour, Mutasem, Damra, Jalal, Al Ali, Tagreed , Ghaith, Souad , Ghbari, Thaer , & Shammout, Nezar (2024). Validation of the Revised Scale of Students’ Attitudes towards Research. Studies in Higher Education. 49(1), 33-46. 10.1080/03075079.2023.2220700

Damra J. K., Akour M. M., & Al Omari O. (2024). Stress and loneliness: exploring adolescents’ use of social media as a coping strategy during COVID-19. Nursing Children and Young People, 36(1):26-32. https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.2023.e1456
Damra, Jalal. K., Akour, Mutasem. M., & Qatawneh, M. A. (2023). Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Among Refugee Men: Prevalence and Correlates with Associated Factors. The Journal of Men’s Studies, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265231209432

Alomari, H., Akour , Mutasem. M., & Al ajlouni , J. (2023). The effect of Sample Size on Differential Item Functioning and Differential Distractor Functioning in multiple choice items. Psychology Hub, 40(2), 17–24. https://doi.org/10.13133/2724-2943/17992

Damra, Jalal & Akour, Mutasem. (2023) Breaking the Silence: Understanding the Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence on Refugee Men, with Depression as a Key Outcome. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2023.2243315

Damra, J. Kayed., Abujilban, S., & Akour, Mutasem. M. (2023). The Cyber Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence, Context, and Relationship with In-Person Intimate Violence Victimization. Journal of Family Issues, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X231181366

Damra, J. K., Akour, M. M., & Ghbari, T. A. (2023). The relationship between peer bullying and PTSS in refugee schoolchildren. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(7), 1128–1135 publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001321

Sabah, S., Akour, M. M., Hammouri, H. (2023). Implementing next generation science practices in classrooms: Findings from TIMSS 2019. Journal of Turkish Science Education, 20(2), 309-319. https://doi.org/10.36681/tused.2023.017

Akour, M. M. (2022). Rasch rating scale analysis of the survey of attitudes toward statistics. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 18(12), em2190. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12646

Al-Smadi, R., Ghbari, T., Damra, J., & Akour, M. (2022).  The Elephant in the Room: The Role of Songs in Developing Social Prejudice Attitudes Among University Students. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 9(3), 121-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/1142

Akour, M. M., Hammouri, H., Sabah, S., & Alomari, H. (2021). Is it suitable to use the same categorization in rating scales when applied to students with distinctive levels of achievement?" Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation: Vol. 26, Article 18. https://doi.org/10.7275/21246182

Al-Ali, T., Akour, M.M., Al-Masri, E., Mizaghobian, A.A.H., Ghaith, S. (2021). Psychological Burnout among Professionals Working with Children with Motor Disabilities. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 14(1), 69–85. https://doi.org/10.11621/pir.2021.0106

Al-Thani, A. M., Akour, M. M., & Al-Kohji, S. M. (2021). Psychometric evaluation of an Arabic Red Flag Screening Checklist of autism spectrum disorders in infants and toddlers. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 82, 101727. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2021.101727

Akour, M., M., & Hammad, B. (2020). Psychometric Properties of an Instrument Developed to Assess Students’ Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Education. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, 14(4), 656-667. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jeps.vo14iss4pp656-667

Hammouri, H., Akour, M. M., & Sabah, S. (2020). Evaluation of students’ Noncognitive Large Scale Assessments measures: Problem Solving Experiences scale as a case study. Opcion, 36(26), 3115-3141. https://produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/opcion/article/view/32635/34123

Ghaith, S. d. M., Al-Baddareen, G. S., Al Ali, T. M., & Akour, M. M. (2020). Perceived social support among widowed women in Jordan: An exploratory study. Women's Studies International Forum, 80, 102364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102364

Al-Dababneh, Kholoud. A., Al-Zboon, Eman. K., & Akour, Mutasem. M. (2016). Competencies that Teachers Need for Teaching Children Who Are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) in Jordan. Deafness & Education International, 18(4), 172-188. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14643154.2016.1249173

Akour, Mutasem, Sabah, S., & Hammouri, H. (2015). Net and Global Differential Item Functioning in PISA Polytomously Scored Science Items: Application of the Differential Step Functioning Framework. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 33(2), 166-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282914541337
Akour, M., Mutasem, AL-Baddareen, G., Al-Omari, H., & AL Duwairi, A. (2015). Exploring the Jordanian Gender Gap in a Large-Scale Assessment in Mathematics. Jordan Journal of Educational Sciences, 11(1), 101-111. 

Al-Baddareen, G., Ghaith, S., & Akour, M. (2015). Self-Efficacy, Achievement Goals, and Metacognition as Predicators of Academic Motivation. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 191(0), 2068-2073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.345

Al-Omari, Hassan, & Akour, Mutasem (2014). The effect of class size on reliability estimates of college-students course grades. Journal of Educational & Psychological Sciences, 15(3), 541-558. http://dx.doi.org/10.12785/JEPS/150318

Akour, Mutasem, & Al-Omari, Hassan (2013). Empirical Investigation of the Stability 
of IRT-Item Paramters Estimation. International Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 5(2), 291-301. 

Sabah, Saed, Hammouri, Hind, & Akour, Mutasem (2013). Validation of  a Scale 
of Attitudes toward Science across Countries Using Rasch Model: Findings from TIMSS. Journal of Baltic Science Education,12(5), 692-702. 

AL-Baddareen, Ghaleb, Ghaith, Souad, Akour, Mutasem, & Banat, Suhaila (2012). 
Type A behavior, Emotional Intelligence and Social Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Work Motivation among Faculty Members at the Hashemite University. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, 6(3), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.24200/jeps.vol6iss3pp57-68

*From 2024 : Professor at the Hashemite University.
• 2016-2023: Associate  Professor at the Hashemite University.
* 2007 – 2016: Assistant Professor at the Hashemite University.
•2003 – 2007 Research Assistant at the Center for Advanced Studies in Measurement and Assessment (CASMA), Iowa city, USA.
• 2000 – 2003 Teacher of Physics, Ministry of Education - Jordan.
• 1998 – 2000 Teacher of Physics, Royal Schools, KSA.
• 1992 – 1998 Teacher of Physics, Ministry of Education- Jordan.

 At the Graduate level:    
          * Research Methodology
          * Statistical Analysis   
          * Research Design
          * Scale Development
         * Research Project
At the Undergraduate level:
          * Introduction to psychological and    
            educational statisitcs
          * Introduction to psychological and 
            educational research  
          * Study skills
          * Research methods in Counseling and Psychology 
          * Descriptive Statistics
          * Psychological testing

•	1992 – 2003 Teacher of Physics.

 •	National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
•	American Educational Research Association (AERA).

MUTASEM MOHAMMAD MAHMOUD AKOUR

MUTASEM MOHAMMAD MAHMOUD AKOUR

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