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).
Ancilliary materials linked below (video and slides) will sometimes be password-protected.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | |
| January 28, 2025 | Carmen M. Taver | Exploring the association between teacher growth mindset and retention: the case of teachers in Chile | video |
| February 11, 2025 | Shinyi Kang, Christina Bosch | Measuring K-12 Students’ AI Fluency | video |
| February 25, 2025 | Aiden Thornton | A Psychometric Study on Scores Yielded By a Cognitive-Developmental Scoring System | |
| March 11, 2025 | William Penuel* | Classroom Assessment as Focus for Improving Teaching and Learning and as a Leverage Point for Systems Transformation | video |
| April 1, 2025 | Perman Gochyyev* | Patient-Focused Drug Development: The Role of Psychometrics in Clinical Outcome Assessment | |
| April 15, 2025 | Laura Steacy* | An Exploration of Child and Word Factors Related to Word Reading in Developing Readers | video slides |
| April 29, 2025 | Yukie Toyama, Freddy Hiebert, Qing Cai, Robin Irey* | 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)
Yunting Liu (yunting99@berkeley.edu)