BEAR Seminars Fall 2023

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 1204 and also on Zoom.

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

Date Speaker Topic
September 12, 2023 Luca Mari Chatbots: facing a cultural revolution.  And trying to understand it. video, slides
September 26, 2023 Ryan Carter and Brent Duckor Measuring High School Counselor Beliefs on the Importance of MTMDSS Universal Supports Since COVID-19 video, slides
October 10, 2023 Matt Barney, Stefanie Wind, and Vaishak Krishna AI-Quantified Ethics: Enhanced Persuasion Analysis through Advanced Rasch Models video, slides
October 24, 2023 Various Researchers BEAR Center Research Roundup video and slides
November 7, 2023 Aubrey Condor AI-Assisted feedback for student revisions of short responses

video

slides

Mingfeng Xue Fine-tuning GPT Models for Auto-Scoring in Educational Measurement video slides
November 28, 2023 Enrique Valencia López Measurement invariance of a teacher professional development intervention in rural Honduras

video

slides

Convenors & Coordinators:

  Himilcon Inciarte (himilcon_inciarte@berkeley.edu)
  Mingfeng Xue (mingfengxue@berkeley.edu)
  Yunting Liu (yunting99@berkeley.edu)