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(link sends e-mail).

Date Speaker Topic
September 3, 2024 Mark Wilson(link is external) My perspective on “The past, present and future of measurement": What makes measurement important for education? video (MP4 file)(link is external) slides (PPTX file)(link is external)
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 (MP4 file)(link is external) slides (PDF file)(link is external)
October 1, 2024 Yunting Liu Saltus and the SCM model revisited video (MP4 file)(link is external)slides (PPTX file)(link is external)
October 15, 2024 Perman Gochyyev & Mark Wilson Lord’s Paradox and Consequences for Effects of Interventions on Outcomes video (MP4 file)(link is external) slides (PDF file)(link is external)
October 29, 2024 Joshua Gilbert Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Item-Level Outcome Data: Insights from Item Response Theory video (MP4 file)(link is external) slides (PDF file)(link is external)
November 12, 2024 Roza Nalbandyan Signposts on the Path from Nominal to Ordinal Scales(link is external) video (MP4 file)(link is external)
November 26, 2024 symposium AI Applications in Measurement: Insights and Innovations

Conveners & Coordinators:
  Hyemin Park (hyemin.park@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail))
  Yunting Liu (yunting99@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail))