BEAR Seminars Fall 2024

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 1207 and also on Zoom, with exceptions as noted in the table below.

Zoom links can be requested from convenors@bear.berkeley.edu.

Date Speaker Topic
September 3, 2024 Mark Wilson My perspective on “The past, present and future of measurement": What makes measurement important for education? video slides
September 17, 2024 Kate Lafferty and Melissa Barnes Developing and Assessing General Capabilities in Secondary Education: A Combined Approach Through Teacher and Student Engagement video slides
October 1, 2024 Yunting Liu Saltus and the SCM model revisited video slides
October 15, 2024 Perman Gochyyev & Mark Wilson Lord’s Paradox and Consequences for Effects of Interventions on Outcomes video slides
October 29, 2024 Joshua Gilbert Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Item-Level Outcome Data: Insights from Item Response Theory video slides
November 12, 2024 Roza Nalbandyan Signposts on the Path from Nominal to Ordinal Scales
November 26, 2024 TBA AIs in Measurement

Conveners & Coordinators:
  Hyemin Park (hyemin.park@berkeley.edu)
  Yunting Liu (yunting99@berkeley.edu)