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International Conferences in Summer 2008! |
After Oviedo, the International Test Commission will hold their 6th Conference focusing on "The Impact of Testing on People and Society: Enhancing the Value of Test Use". This meeting will take place in Liverpool, England on July 14-16, 2008, and will also feature a keynote address from Professor Ronald K. Hambleton on "A Key for Valid Uses of Tests: Making Test Score Reports More Understandable and User-Friendly".
UMass presentations and workshops at Oviedo include:
Decisions That Make a Difference in Detecting Differential Item Functioning [workshop]
Stephen G. Sireci - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Interesting and Novel Advances in Applying Item Response Theory Models [symposium]
Chaired and organized by Ronald Hambleton - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Craig S. Wells, Ronald K. Hambleton, Tie Liang - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Test Score Comparability Across Language and Cultural Groups in the Presence of Item Bias [paper]
Paula Elosua - University of the Basque Country, Spain; Ronald Hambleton - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Constructing and Evaluating Customized Test Score Norms [paper]
Luis Lozano - University of Jaen, Spain; Ronald K. Hambleton - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Enhancing the Meaningfulness of Score Scales Using Item Response Theory [paper]
Stephen G. Sireci, Ronald K. Hambleton - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; Kristen Huff - College Board, USA
Paula Elosua - University of the Basque Country, Spain; Craig Wells - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
The analyses of the structural equivalence of the different linguistic and cultural versions of the Self-Government Inventory (SSI-K3) via Multidimensional Scaling [paper]
Jose L. Padilla - University of Granada; Stephen G. Sireci - University of Massachusetts; Beatríz Acosta - University of Papaloapan; Juana Gomez - University of Barcelona
Using item response theory models to construct tests and equate and report scores [workshop]
Craig S. Wells, Ronald K. Hambleton - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Constructing and Evaluating Customized Test Score Norms [paper]
Ronald Hambleton - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Have My Test Items Been Stolen? Item Statistics to Find Out [paper]
Ronald Hambleton - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; Ning Han - Educational Testing Service
Communicating results of comparisons of international assessments with NAEP [in NAEP symposium]
Stephen G. Sireci - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Communicating the results of score equity assessment [in NAEP symposium]
Craig Wells - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Communicating the utility of NAEP score reports [in NAEP symposium]
April L. Zenisky, Ronald K. Hambleton, and Stephen G. Sireci - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Customizing the View: Evaluating the Communication of National Assessment Results [paper]
April L. Zenisky, Ronald K. Hambleton, and Stephen G. Sireci - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
The use of 'standardized coding schemes' to analyse construct equivalence via cognitive interviewing [paper]
Jose-Luis Padilla - University of Granada; Stephen G. Sireci - University of Massachusetts
