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Center for Educational Assessment at NERA 2006!
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The Center for Educational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is pleased to announce that a number of faculty and students recently presented their research at the 37th annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association held in Kerhonkson, NY, on October 18-20, 2006.
Papers presented included:
A TCC RMSD Bootstrapping Study for Detecting Population Invariance
Robert R. Keller & Lisa A. Keller
A Comparison of 2 Methods of School-level Accountability Determinations in One State: Which Method Leads to the Most Valid Decisions?
Christine Lewis
Central Limit Theorem and Sample Size 
Zachary R. Smith & Craig S. Wells
Psychometric Issues when Measuring Adequate Yearly Progress as Required by No Child Left Behind: A Literature Review
Karen Addesso
A Comparison of IRT Equating Methods on Recovering Parameters and Capturing Growth in Mixed-format Tests
Su G. Baldwin & Michael L. Nering
Evaluating Population Invariance in a National Assessment
Su G. Baldwin, Lisa A. Keller, & Craig S. Wells
Exploring the Meaningfulness of Strand Score Reporting using Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Ana M. Karantonis
Item Parameter Invariance Across States in a National Assessment Program
Ana M. Karantonis, Su G. Baldwin, Stephen J. Jirka, Craig S. Wells, &
Ronald K. Hambleton
Population Invariance: Comparison of Converted Scores for a National Testing Program
Stephen J. Jirka, Su G. Baldwin, Ana M. Karantonis, Craig S. Wells, & Ronald K. Hambleton
The Misuse of Unidimensional Tests as a Diagnostic Tool
Pauline Parker & Craig S. Wells
WinGen: Windows software that Generates IRT Parameters and Item Responses
Kyung T. Han
Consequence of IRT Model Misfit in Equating
Yue Zhao
Evaluation of Standard Error Estimates across IRT Software
Jill K. Delton & Craig S. Wells
Note: Papers marked by "" can be accessed by clicking on the paper title.
More information about the conference can be found on the conference website here.
