BEAR Seminars Spring 2025

The Berkeley Evaluation and and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center coordinates seminars for researchers to share cutting-edge findings and to prompt congenial discussion of topics in educational assessment and evaluation.

BEAR Seminar meets alternate Tuesdays from 2pm-4 at Berkeley Way West 1212 and also on Zoom, with exceptions as noted in the table below.

Zoom links can be requested from convenors@bear.berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)(link sends e-mail).

Ancilliary materials linked below (video and slides) will sometimes be password-protected.

Date Speaker Topic
January 28, 2025 Carmen M. Taver(link is external) Exploring the association between teacher growth mindset and retention: the case of teachers in Chile video (MP4 file)(link is external)
February 11, 2025 Shinyi Kang, Christina Bosch Measuring K-12 Students’ AI Fluency(link is external) video (MP4 file)(link is external)
February 25, 2025 Aiden Thornton A Psychometric Study on Scores Yielded By a Cognitive-Developmental Scoring System(link is external) video (MP4 file)(link is external) slides (PDF file)(link is external)
March 11, 2025 William Penuel* Classroom Assessment as Focus for Improving Teaching and Learning and as a Leverage Point for Systems Transformation(link is external) video (MP4 file)(link is external)
April 1, 2025 Perman Gochyyev* Patient-Focused Drug Development: The Role of Psychometrics in Clinical Outcome Assessment(link is external)
April 15, 2025 Laura Steacy* An Exploration of Child and Word Factors Related to Word Reading in Developing Readers
April 29, 2025 Yukie Toyama* Investigating word difficulty in connected text: a secondary analysis of oral reading fluency data with Rasch-family models

*speaker in person at Berkeley Way West

Conveners & Coordinators:
    Hyemin Park (hyemin.park@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail))
    Yunting Liu (yunting99@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail))