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Blum, A. M., Mason, J. M., Irey, R. C., Toyama, Y., Liu, Y., Jung, G., Scott, A., Kim, J., & Pearson, P. D. (2026). Disentangling local versus global processing dispositions in autistic cognition using item response theory models: comparing multimodal comics versus text-based narratives in a randomized study. Discourse Processes, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853x.2026.2619824
Yin, P., Ji, F., & Blum, A. M. (2025). Exploring Chinese international students’ attitudes toward anti-China rhetoric: Development and initial validation of an item response theory-based measure. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 18(3), 240-252. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000513
Blum, A. M., Mason, J. M., Shah, A., & Brondfield, S. (2024). Making multiple regression narratives accessible: The affordances of Wright maps. Journal of Applied Measurement.
Brondfield, S., Blum, A. M., Mason, J. M., O'Sullivan, P. S. (2024). How Many Is Too Many? Using Cognitive Load Theory to Determine the Maximum Safe Number of Inpatient Consultations for Trainees. Academic Medicine, 99(11), 1260-1266.
Narins, L. D., Scott, A. T., Gautam, A., Kulkarni, A., Castañón, M., Kao, B., Ihorn, S., Siu, Y., Mason, J. M., Blum, A., & Yoon, I. (2023). Validated Image Caption Rating Dataset. Neural Information Processing Systems, 36, 61292–61305. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/c0b91f9a3587bf35287f41dba5d20233-Abstract-Datasets_and_Benchmarks.html
Zhao, N.W., Mason, J.M., Blum, A.M., Kim, E.K., Young, V.N., Rosen, C.A. and Schneider, S.L. (2023), Using Item-Response Theory to Improve Interpretation of the Trans Woman Voice Questionnaire. The Laryngoscope, 133: 1197-1204. https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.30360
Brondfield, S., Blum, A. M., Lee, K., Linn, M. C., O'Sullivan, P. S. (2021). The Cognitive Load of Inpatient Consults: Development of the Consult Cognitive Load Instrument and Initial Validity Evidence. Academic Medicine, 96(12), 1732-1741.
Blum, A. M., Mason, J. M., Kim, J., & Pearson, P. D. (2020). Modeling question-answer relations: the development of the integrative inferential reasoning comic assessment. Reading and Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-020-10026-4
Balasubramanian, L., Blum, A. M., & Wolfberg, P. (2019). Building on Early Foundations into School: Fostering Socialization in Meaningful Socio-cultural Contexts. In R. Jordan, J. M. Roberts, & K. Hume (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Autism and Education (pp. 134–153). https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526470409.n13