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 | video |
| November 26, 2024 | symposium | AI Applications in Measurement: Insights and Innovations |
Conveners & Coordinators:
Hyemin Park (hyemin.park@berkeley.edu)
Yunting Liu (yunting99@berkeley.edu)