Ting Sun

Ting Sun, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Surgery

Academic Office Information

Ting.Sun@hsc.utah.edu

Ting Sun, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Surgical Education in the Department of Surgery and Educational Researcher in the Office of Surgical Education at the Utah School of Medicine. With specialty in quantitative methodology, Dr. Sun’s research interests include psychometrics, online learning, self-efficacy, and medical education. Her research mainly focuses on providing validity and reliability evidence of assessment measures in education. She is also interested in the assessment of surgical competence and outcomes using advanced quantitative methods or machine learning techniques.

Dr. Sun grew up in China and holds her Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her postdoctoral training from Northwestern University.

Education History

Undergraduate Xi'an International Studies University
 BA
Graduate Training Xi'an International Studies University
 MA
Doctoral Training University of North Carolina at Charlotte
 PhD

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Sun T, Park YS, Chen F, Hogan SO, Tanaka P (2025). Longitudinal reliability of Milestones learning trajectories during anesthesiology. Anesthesiology. Anesthesiology,
  2. Sun T, Zheng B, Yamazaki K, Smith BK, Hamstra SJ (2025). The Association of ACGME Milestones with other measures of performance in General Surgery: A Meta-Analytic Study. Academic medicine,
  3. Sun T, Kim SY (2024). Evaluating equating methods for varying levels of form difference. Educational and psychological measurement,
  4. Sun T, Kim SY, Smith BK, Park YS (2024). Reliability of a workplace-based assessment for the United States general surgical trainees’ intraoperative performance using multivariate generalizability theory: a psychometric study. Journal of educational evaluation for health professions,

Review

  1. Sun T, Hamstra SJ, Yamazaki K, Ren JK, Smith BK (2025). Construct validity evidence for surgical specialties' ACGME Milestones: A systematic review. Journal of graduate medical education,