Hatice Gonca Usta graduated from Ankara University educational measurement and evaluation master’s degree in 2009 and she received his PhD in educational measurement and evaluation from Ankara University in Turkey. She worked as a measurement and evaluation specialist at Ted Ankara College between 2006-2010. She served as an Assistant Professor at Cumhuriyet University from 2010-2021. She got her associate professor degree in 2020. She has been in Southern Methodist University as a visiting researcher in 2018-2019. During her scholar activities, she engaged in various research projects in the fields of education and taught introductory data analysis courses at graduate and master level.
Recently she has conducted her research with her supervisor at Southern Methodist University as an independent researcher, and works as a data analyst in JLLTech. Dr Usta’s research interests primarily focus on Structural Equation Modelling, Test Development, Test Adaption, Latent Class Analysis.