2020-2021 Spring * Addressing the Blue Book Problem: An IRT Mixture Model for Item Position Effects [Online] Klint Kanopka, Stanford University Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 2:00pm * Modeling Headaches that Result from Psychometric and Distributional Properties of Outcome Variables [Online] Benjamin Domingue, Stanford University Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - 2:00pm * AERA Rehearsal GSE Students & Researchers Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - 2:00pm * Developing the Next Generation of Oral Reading Fluency Assessment [Online] Akihito Kamata, Southern Methodist University Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 2:45pm * Evaluating the Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Education: What the Data from Student Surveys Do and Do not Tell Us [Online] Brent Duckor, San José State University, & Philip Stark, UC Berkeley Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 2:00pm * Measuring Diagnostic Competence: An Exploration of Error Analysis Ability and the Roles of Procedural and Conceptual Knowledge [Online] Rebecca McNeil, UC Berkeley Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 2:00pm * Construct Modeling Approach as an Integrative Framework of Measurement Philosophy and Validity [Online] Weeraphat Suksiri, Independent Scholar Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - 2:00pm * Gadamer on Truth and Method: Implications for Measurement across the Sciences [Online] William P. Fisher, Jr. BEAR Center, UC Berkeley Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 2:00pm 2020-2021 Fall * IOMW 2020 Spotlight Talk: Integrating Natural Language Processing features within explanatory item response models to support score interpretation (Session 4/4) [Online] Nathan Zoaneti, Xiaoliang Zhou, and Ling Tan Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 2:00pm * Improving the Estimation of Site-Specific Effects and their Distribution in Multisite Trials [Online] Joon-Ho Lee Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 2:00pm * IOMW 2020 Spotlight Talk: How Fair is to be Fair? Revisiting Test Equating under the NEAT Design (Session 3/4) [Online] Ernesto San Martin & Jorge Gonzalez Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 2:00pm * Scale Alignment in Multidimensional Rasch Family Models [Online] Leah Feuerstahler, Department of Psychology, Fordham University Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 2:00pm * IOMW 2020 Spotlight Talk: Unfolding Models and Learning Progressions: Identification of Feedback Strategies for Improving Writing (Session 2/4) [Online] Ye Yuan & George Engelhard, The University of Georgia Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - 2:00pm * Visual Skills and Reading: Problems of Measurement, Assessment, and Remediation [Online] Maureen Kennedy Powers, Gemstone Foundation Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 2:00pm * IOMW 2020 Spotlight Talk: A Model-Data-Fit-Informed Approach to Score Resolution in Rater-Mediated Assessments (Session 1/4) [Online] Stefanie A. Wind & A. Adrienne Walker Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 2:00pm * The Measure STEM Caliper Development Initiative [Online] Jan Morrison and William P. Fisher, Jr. Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 2:00pm 2019-20 Spring * Respondent Speed in the Context of Adaptive Testing Benjamin Domingue, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 2:00pm * Measuring Hate Speech: Unifying Deep Learning with Item Response Theory Claudia Natalia von Vacano & Chris Kennedy, D-Lab UC-Berkeley Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - 2:00pm * Novice Study of Teacher Learning Progressions in Posing, Pausing and Probing Practices: A Multi-Dimensional IRT Analysis Brent Duckor, Carrie Holmberg with Yidan Zhang Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 2:00pm * Considerations and Advances in Applying AI-based Methods to Assessing Writing Peter Foltz, AI Products and Solutions, Pearson Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 2:00pm * Data-Assistive Course Articulation Using Machine Translation Zachary A. Pardos, Graduate School of Education & School of Information, UC-Berkeley Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 2:00pm * Item Response Tree Models Paul De Boeck, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 2:00pm * The Semiotics of Identifiable Models in the Economy of Thought: Making Improved Measurement More Widely Available in Psychology and the Social Sciences William P. Fisher, Jr. Research Associate, BEAR Center, GSE, UC Berkeley & Living Capital Metrics LLC Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 2:00pm 2019-20 Fall * What Makes Reading Difficult? An Investigation of the Contribution of Passage, Task and Reader Characteristics on Item Difficulty Using Explanatory Item Response Models Yukie Toyama, UC Berkeley Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 2:00pm * Developing a Novel Learning Progression in Elementary Science Based on Structured Interview Data Amy Cardace, Cornell University Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 2:00pm * Coordinated Reasoning and the “Written Response Effect” Michael Creane, UC Berkeley Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 2:00pm * Evaluating Arts Education: The Art of Mixing Methods for Measuring Creativity Rachel Estrella, Laura Pyror, and Jennifer Hogg, Social Policy Research Associates Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 2:00pm * The Reading Wars through the NRC (2001) Looking Glass: Reflections on Testing for Reading and Reading for Testing Brent Duckor & Agnes Hodi Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 2:00pm * The Basel Accord Measurement Approaches: Sufficiency, Consistency, and Scientific Modeling in Financial Risk Assessments William P. Fisher, Jr. BEAR Center, UC Berkeley Tuesday, October 1, 2019 - 2:00pm * What Machines Can Learn About the Humans Who Train Them: Application of Rater Modeling in Automated Essay Scoring Richard J. Patz, BEAR Center, UC Berkeley Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - 2:00pm * Deficit or Difference? Cycling through the 4-Building-Blocks to Assess the Power of Context in Narrative Comprehension in Autistic and Typically Developing Adolescents: Comic vs. Text Alexander Mario Blum Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 2:00pm 2018-19 Spring * Understanding California Superintendents’ Beliefs About School Climate Data and its Uses: A Multidimensional Modeling Approach Brent Duckor, Anji Buckner, & Yidan Zhang Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 2:00pm * Dyadic Trust Measurements Applied to Assessment in a Clinical Learning Setting Brian Gin & Stephanie Tsoi, University of California, San Francisco Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 2:00pm * AERA/NCME/IOMW Rehearsal GSE Students Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 2:00pm * Using Paradata to Evaluate Online Performance Frauke Kreuter Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 2:00pm * San Francisco Health Investigators & the Development of the Researcher Identity Scale (RIS): An Example of Immersive Collaborative Assessment Development Linda Morell, Shruti Bathia, Rebecca Smith, & Ben Koo, Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 2:00pm * Introducing the QUILS: Screening for Early Language Knowledge Roberta Golinkoff, School of Education, University of Delaware Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 2:00pm * Benjamin Wright's 1958 Personal Approach To Learning: A Joint Epistemic Project Maximizing Occasions for Phenomena to Raise Their Own Questions William Fisher, BEAR Center, University of California, Berkeley Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 2:00pm 2018-19 Fall * On the Possibility of Modeling Teacher Learning Progressions in Classroom-Based Formative Assessment: An Evidence Centered Design Approach Brent Duckor & Mark Wilson Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 2:00pm * Beauty, Meaning, and Measurement William Fisher, BEAR Center, UC Berkeley Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 2:00pm * Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Multiple Dimensions and a Composite Perman Gochyyev and Mark Wilson, BEAR Center, UC Berkeley Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 2:00pm * Polytomous Item Explanatory IRT Models with Random Item Effects JinHo Kim, BEAR Center, UC Berkeley Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 2:00pm * The BEAR Assessment System Software 2.0 (BASS) David Torres Irribarra, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 2:00pm * Social Evaluative Reasoning in the Workplace: Validation of an Assessment of Soft Skill Proficiency for Secondary Students in Special Education Jerred Jolin, BEAR Center, UC Berkeley Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 2:00pm * Developing an Essential Feature of Test Validity Arguments: Alignment Among the Test Design, Interpretation of Test Outcomes, and Evidence for Validity Mark Wilson, UC Berkeley Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 2:00pm 2017-18 Spring * AERA/NCME/IOMW Update QME Faculty & Students Tuesday, May 1, 2018 - 2:00pm * Using Mixture and Rating Scale Models to Investigate Response Profiles Perman Gochyyev, BEAR Center Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 2:00pm * Understanding the Role of Quantitative Methods in a Culturally Competent Approach to Evaluation Laura Pryor, Social Policy Research Associates Tuesday, April 17, 2018 - 2:00pm * AERA/NCME/IOMW Mock Presentations QME Students & BEAR Center Researchers Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 2:00pm * Communicating Complex Psychometric Information to Teachers, Parents, and Other Less Technical Audiences Perman Gochyyev, Karen Draney & Joshua Sussman, BEAR Center Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 2:00pm * Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Testing for Rapidly Identifying Patients' Rehabilitative Care Needs Chun Wang, University of Minnesota Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 2:00pm * Studying Distributed Representations of Pedagogical Objects from Learner Process Data Zachary Pardos, Graduate School of Education & School of Information Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 3:30pm * Growth Curve Cognitive Diagnostic Models for Longitudinal Assessment SeungYeon Lee, Teachers College, Columbia University Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 2:00pm * Humans and Machines: Modeling the Stochastic Behavior of Raters in Educational Assessment Richard Patz, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Education Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 2:00pm * Discontinuous Levels of Complexity in Coherent Educational Measurement: The Roles of KidMaps, Wright Maps, and Construct Maps William P. Fisher, BEAR Center Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 2:00pm 2017-18 Fall * Structural Validity of the Tonic Immobility Scale in a Population Exposed to Trauma: Evidence from Two Large Brazilian Samples Michael Reichenheim, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 2:00pm * The Validity of Standardized Tests for Evaluating Curricular Interventions in Mathematics and Science Joshua Sussman, BEAR Center Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 2:00pm * Teaching Machines to Hate: Scalable Detection of Online Hate Speech Chris Kennedy, UC Berkeley, Public Health Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - 2:00pm * Evaluating the Treatment Effect in the ADM Study and Lord's Paradox Perman Gochyyev, BEAR Center Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 2:00pm * Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States Tomas E Monarrez, UC Berkeley, Economics Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 2:00pm * Flexible Latent Trait Metrics: An Application of the Filtered Monotonic Polynomial Item Response Model Leah Feuerstahler, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Education Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 2:00pm * Education and the Measurement of Behavioral Change Richard Patz, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Education Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 2:00pm 2016-17 Spring * Measuring 21st Century Skills: A Danish Approach Jeppe Bundsgaard, Danish School of Education, Copenhagen Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 2:00pm * AERA/NCME Mock presentations QME Faculty & Students Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 2:00pm * Finnish Education: Not a Miracle, but a Well-Planned System Rooted in Trust, Highly Educated Teachers, and Pedagogical Autonomy Toni Saarivirta, Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 2:00pm * Adrift or Engaged? A Multi-Engagement Model of the Student Experience Using SERU Data John Aubrey Douglass & Gregg Thomson, Center for Studies in Higher Education Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 2:00pm * Measurement in the Context of Formative Classroom Assessment Mark Wilson, UC Berkeley Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 2:00pm * Evaluating the Effect of New School Facilities on Student Achievement and Attendance in LAUSD Julien Lafortune and David Schoenholzer, UC Berkeley Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 2:00pm * Writing and Success in College Veronica Santelices, Catholic University of Chile Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - 2:00pm * Can There Be a Metrology for Psychometricians? Luca Mari, Cattaneo University –LIUC, Castellanza, Italy Tuesday, January 31, 2017 - 2:00pm 2016-17 Fall * Idiographic Dynamics: Measurement & Analysis at the Individual Level Aaron Fisher, UC Berkeley, Department of Psychology Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 2:00pm * Optimally Combining Outcomes to Improve Prediction David Benkeser, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 2:00pm * Introduction to BASS & crasch Amy Arneson & Rebecca Freund, QME Program, UC Berkeley Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 2:00pm * Measuring What Counts: Developing Scales of Connectedness, Empowerment, and Meaning in the Non-Cognitive Domain Brent Duckor, SJSU & Joshua Sussman, University of California, Berkeley Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 2:00pm * Behind the Scenes of the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation (NITE) in Israel Tzur Karelitz, National Institute for Testing and Evaluation Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 2:00pm * Psychometric Challenges in Measuring Visual Working Memory Capacity Leah Feuerstahler, QME Postdoctoral Fellow Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 2:00pm