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 4310 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 9, 2025 | Doria Xiao | When Growth Mixture Models Break: Identifiability Failures and Misleading Model Evaluation | video slides |
| September 23, 2025 | Roza Nalbandyan* | Using Multivariate G-Theory to Examine Rater and Evidence Source Effects in Cross-Country Critical Thinking Performance Assessment | video slides |
| October 7, 2025 | Wanjing Anya Ma* | A comparison of the predictive performance of continuous and class-based latent trait models | |
| October 21, 2025 | David Henry Stevens* | Using Student-Level Opportunity to Examine Educational Achievement and Inequality | |
| November 4, 2025 | Kenneth Koedinger | An Astonishing Regularity in Student Learning Rate | |
| November 18, 2025 | Mingfeng Xue | Apply Transfer Learning to Increase Item Parameter Prediction Accuracy in Personality Assessment | |
| December 2, 2025 | AI Symposium | AIEM presentations |
*speaker in person at Berkeley Way West
Convener & Coordinator:
Hyemin Park (hyemin.park@berkeley.edu)