Ideas in Testing Research Seminar, October 11, 2013

Schedule

9:15-10:00 Coffee

10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction

10:15-11:00 Ethics session

• Automated Scoring of Open-ended Ethics Questions, Kelly Laas & Alan Mead, IIT
• Development of Individual and Team Measures of Ethical Reasoning, Jill May, IIT

11:00-12:00 Morning IRT session

• The Impact of Within-Template Subset Effects on Ability Estimates, Quinn N. Lathrop, University of Notre Dame
• An Analysis of the Optimal Delivery of Items in a Computer Assisted Pilot, Francis Smart & Mark Reckase, Michigan State University
• Reducing the Effects of Careless Responses on Item Calibration in Item Response Theory, Jeffrey M. Patton, Ying Cheng, Ke-Hai Yuan, University of Notre Dame, & Qi Diao, CTB/McGraw-Hill

12:00-12:45 Lunch (Provided by Pearson)

12:45-1:45 Invited talk

• Item Response Theory Using Bayesian Networks, Richard Neapolitan, Northwestern University

1:45-2:45 Afternoon IRT session

• Application of a Latent Variable Model for Response Style to TIMSS Survey Items, Eric Tomlinson, & Daniel Bolt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• IRT Model Misspecification and Metric Consequences, Sora Lee, Sien Deng, & Daniel Bolt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:00 Closing session

• Modeling Item Difficulty for Perceptual Speed and Accuracy Tests, Stephanie Taylor & Alan Mead, IIT
• Naive Bayesian Classifier for "Big Five" Item Domains, Cassia Carter & Alan Mead, IIT
• Automatic Generation of Verbal Analogy Items, Alan Mead, IIT

4:00-4:30 Conclusion

Questions about the seminar may be directed to Alan Mead (mead@iit.edu) or Kirk Becker (kirk.becker@pearson.com). We hope you will join us.

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