About
I am Giorgi Tchumburidze – Associate Professor of Psychology and head of the Psychology in the Digital World program at BTU (Batumi Technical University) in Tbilisi, Georgia. My work focuses on educational assessment, psychometric validation, and large-scale studies like PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS. This site is my professional home: a place for research, tools, and writing about the measurement of human behavior.
Read full bio →Current Research
Psychological Predictors of Reading Achievement
Evidence from PISA Georgia – examining how self-efficacy, growth mindset, and belonging predict reading literacy.
Digital Divide 2.0
Combining PISA 2022 data with primary survey research to examine digital inequality among Georgian students.
PSS-10 & Self-Efficacy Scale Validation
Psychometric validation of Georgian versions of the Perceived Stress Scale and General Self-Efficacy Scale.
Cultural Life Scripts Replication
A 2026 replication of the 2016 Cultural Life Scripts study in the Georgian context.
Teaching
Psychology in the Digital World
A program at BTU exploring how digital technologies shape human cognition, behavior, and well-being. Courses cover research methodology, psychometrics, and the intersection of psychology with technology.
Latest from the Blog
Recent articles on psychometrics, R tutorials, research notes, and more.
- Collective Narcissism – When Group Pride Turns DefensiveMost of us belong to groups we feel proud of – a nation, a faith, a profession, a football club. Feeling good about your group is normal and, for the most part, healthy. But there is a particular way of … Read more
- Psychology’s WEIRD Problem – And What It Means for GeorgiaHere is an uncomfortable fact about the science of human behavior: most of what we know about “people” was learned by studying a very particular, very unusual slice of people. For decades, psychology built its theories on one narrow population … Read more
- What I Actually Found at the Tbilisi School of Political StudiesThis week, Georgia’s State Audit Office opened an inquiry into the funding of the Tbilisi School of Political Studies, and government figures have publicly accused the School of promoting radicalism. Reading the coverage, I kept thinking about my own time … Read more