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-4pm at Berkeley Way West 1204 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 | |
| February 10, 2026 | Adriana Felisa | Cognitive Psychometrics: Building Bayesian Cognitive Measurement Models | |
| February 24, 2026 | Mike Hardy | Noise Tectonics: Measuring the Stability of AI Benchmark Ecosystems | |
| March 10, 2026 | Mingfeng Xue | Integrating Generalizability Theory and Item Response Theory: Theory, Simulation, and Application | |
| March 31, 2026 | TBD | TBD | |
| April 13, 2026 (Monday) | Sherry Qiu | Polytomous IRT Models for Multidimensional Forced-Choice Items to Measure Intra- and Interpersonal Construct Differences | |
| April 28, 2026 | Yusuf Kara | Model-based approaches for passage-level scores for the oral reading fluency assessment |
*speaker in person at Berkeley Way West
Conveners & Coordinators:
Hyemin Park (hyemin.park@berkeley.edu)
Wenjie Zhou(zhouwenjie@berkeley.edu)