Ideas in Testing Research Seminar, November 21, 2014

9:15-10:00 Coffee

10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction

10:15-11:00 Personality session

Improving Criterion-Related Validity in Personality Questionnaires at the Item Level, Roger Dimitrov, Illinois Institute of Technology
Does the Negatively-Worded Item Effect Exist in Personality Tests?, Jialin Huang, Illinois Institute of Technology

11:00-12:00 Time session

Is Response Time a Good Indicator of Aberrance?, Xiao Luo, National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
Maximum Information per Time unit Method in Computerized Adaptive Testing, Jeffrey Patton, University of Maryland; Ying ("Alison") Cheng, University of Notre Dame; & Qi Diao, CTB/McGraw-Hill
Detection of Test Speededness using Change Point Analysis, Can Shao, Jun Li, & Ying Cheng, University of Notre Dame

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

12:45-1:45 Item development session

Exploring the Psychometric Properties of Innovative Items in CAT, Hong Qian, Ada Woo, Doyoung Kim, National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
Stochastic Generative Image Model Contributes to sMRI: Artistic Judgment Aptitude Validation, Nikolaus Bezruczko
Innovative items and construct validity, Kirk Becker, Pearson

1:45-2:45 Test construction session

Approaches for Incorporating Theta Estimation in Generating Information Functions of Observed Score on True Score, Charles Secolsky, Misssissippi Department of Education; Abdulelah Alqarni, Kent State University; & Sara Rose, Seattle, WA
Common Block Assembly via Automated Test Assembly (ATA), Johnny Denbleyker & Shuqin Tao, National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners
Extending Nonparametric IRT with Singular Value Decomposition, Quinn N. Lathrop, University of Notre Dame

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:00 DIF session

Quantifying DIF and non-DIF, Alan Mead, Talent Algorithms & IIT; Scott Morris, IIT

4:00-4:30 Conclusion

Questions about the seminar may be directed to Alan Mead () or Kirk Becker (). We hope you will join us.