Ocheni, Christopher A. is a PhD student of Educational Statistics and Research Method at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA. Ocheni obtained a B.Ed. degree from the University of Agriculture, Makurdi in 2015, an M.Ed. degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2021. He worked as a Physics Instructor in several high schools. His research interest includes psychometrics (Item Response Theory, Cognitive Diagnosis Modeling, Rasch modeling, etc.), test security, cheating behavior, educational assessment, structural equation modelling, etc. Ocheni is a member of many professional organizations, such as: Psychometric Society, American Educational Research Association (AERA), National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME), American Psychological Association (APA), Educational Assessment and Research Network in Africa (EARNiA), Association of Evaluators and Researchers of Nigeria (ASSEREN), and Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN). In 2023, Ocheni won the award of a Graduate Fellow at the University of Alabama, and in 2024, he won a conference travel scholarship organized by the Center for Measurement Justice (CMJ). He is also a two time winner of the Dr. Brad S. Chissom Memorial Endowed Scholarship (2024 & 2025). Ocheni is an emerging scholar in the field of Educational Research and he is interest in learning collaborating with scholars around the world.