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Christina Wikström serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Educational Science at Umeå University and Project Manager for Sweden's national higher education admissions test (SweSAT). Her academic work centers on validity issues in educational testing systems and admissions processes across multiple institutional contexts.
Her research focuses on test design and validity, particularly regarding higher education selection mechanisms. She extends this expertise to specialized domains including police recruitment assessment, where she examines constructs like empathy and perspective-taking. Key areas encompass educational measurement theory, standardized testing applications, and the interplay between cognitive and non-cognitive factors in selection systems.
Analysis of her 2016-2025 publications reveals consistent emphasis on educational assessment validity, with growing exploration of cross-context applications. Recent work demonstrates methodological rigor in comparing self-reported versus objective measurements and addressing equity considerations in test-based selection processes.
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Wikström contributes to the Measurement in Behavioral Sciences research group and led the "Perspective-taking in future police officers" project (2017-2020), which investigated training effects on cognitive empathy in law enforcement candidates through controlled experimental design.
