Event Schedule
Monday, Jul 2
- Alina Von Davier (Speakers) Senior Vice President, ACTNext
- Kristin Stoeffler (Speakers) Assessment Designer, ACT; University of Luxemburg
Authors: Alina Von Davier; Kristin Stoeffler
Workshop Objectives
The goal of the tutorial is for the participants to learn about the considerations for test development and the computational psychometrics methods for the collaborative problem solv...
See More- Gary L. Canivez (Speaker) Workshop Facilitator (full day), Eastern Illinois University
Authors: Gary L. Canivez
Workshop Objectives
Participants will learn ethical principles and test standards governing test interpretation and the necessary psychometric principles and procedures assessing viability of test scores and comparisons.
&...
See More- Jaehwa Choi (Speaker) Workshop Facilitator (full day), The George Washington University
Authors: Jaehwa Choi
Workshop objectives
Aims of this workshop will be introducing both a theoretical and practical introduction to Automatic Item Generation (AIG), which is an emerging research area and an innovative assessment approach for gener...
See More- Jose-Luis Padilla (Speaker) Associate Professor, University of Granada
Authors: Jose-Luis Padilla; Isabel Benítez
Workshop Objectives
The main aim is attendees learn how to design and conduct a mixed-methods research using cognitive interviewing for interpreting DIF/bias in cross-lingual and cultural testing p...
See More- Linda Cook (Speakers) Workshop Facilitator (full day), ETS
- Wayne Camara (Speakers) Horace Mann Research Chair, ACT
- Kadriye Ercikan (Speakers) ETS/UBC
- Joan Herman (Speakers) UCLA/CRESST
Authors: Linda Cook; Wayne Camara; Joan Herman; Kadriye Ercikan
Workshop Objectives
Participants will learn ethical principles and test standards governing test interpretation and the necessary psychometric principles and procedures assessing viab...
See More- Won-Chan Lee (Speakers) University of Iowa
- Kyung (Chris) T. Han (Speakers) Senior Director, Psychometric Research, Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®)
Authors: Won-Chan Lee; Kyung (Chris) T. Han; Hyung Jin Kim
Workshop Objectives
The goal of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for participants to acquire knowledge of equating and hands-on experience using equating programs for their opera...
See More- Avi Allalouf (Speaker) Workshop Facilitator (am), NITE
Authors: Avi Allalouf
Summary
Accuracy is essential in all stages of testing, beginning with test development and administration, through to scoring, test analysis, and score reporting. QC procedures are required in all these stages, especially in...
See More- Maria Elena Oliveri (Speakers) Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- April Zenisky (Speakers) UMass-Amherst
Authors: Maria Elena Oliveri; April Zenisky
Workshop Objectives
Participants will gain familiarity with innovative approaches to designing items, task sets, and score reports in support of the fair and valid assessment of culturally and linguistic...
See More- Jorge González (Speakers) Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Marie Wiberg (Speakers) Umeå university, Sweden
Authors: Marie Wiberg; Jorge González
Workshop Objectives
The main objective is to introduce equating and let the attendees get a conceptual and practical understanding of various equating methods by using different data sets within the R s...
See More- Dragos Iliescu (Speaker) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
Authors: Dragos Iliescu
Workshop Objectives
Understand the principles behind test adaptation and interpret them in practical terms relevant to psychological practice and research;
Understand how judgmental and empirical procedures contribute to te...
See MoreOpening Ceremony, awards and presidential address:
Opening ceremony - Nathalie Loye
Thomas Oakland Award presentation – Stephen Sireci
Best paper Awards presentation - Carla Barroso
Presidential Adress - Dragos Iliescu
See More- Nathan Roberson (Chair) University of British Columbia
Oral presentation session
Chair: Nathan D Roberson
- Jean-Sebastien Renaud (Chair) Professeur agrégé, Université Laval
Oral presentation session
Chair: Jean-Sébastien Renaud
- Justin August (Chair) Lecturer, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Oral presentation session
Chair: Justin August
- Hariharan Swaminathan (Chair) Professor, University of Connecticut
Oral presentation session
Chair: Hariharan Swaminathan
- Christine Doe (Chair) MSVU
Oral presentation session
Chair: Christine Doe
- Lara Montefiori (Chair) Arctic Shores; University College London (UCL)
Authors: Lara Montefiori
Game-Based Assessment (GBA) is a recent evolution in psychological assessment that combines game technology and psychological testing. Being a relatively new field, empirical evidence on this approach is scarce compared to...
See More- Kadriye Ercikan (Chair) ETS/UBC
- John Hattie (Discussant) Laureate Professor and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne
Convenor: Kadriye Ercikan
Discussant: John Hattie
Digitally based assessments provide data about examinees’ engagement with tests that was not possible in paper based assessments. Process data, also referred to as “observed data”...
See More- Dylan Molenaar (Chair) Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
Authors: Dylan Molenaar
Introduction
Recently, interest has grown in adding the item response times to the traditional psychometric analysis of the item responses. Many methods have been proposed that extend existing psychometric tools (like the t...
See More- Christina Sison (Chair) Research Associate, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde
Authors: Christina S. Sison
Deaf individuals receive very limited access to appropriate psychological assessment services (Wood & Dockrell, 2010; Freeman, 1989) . This leads to limited support provided to them making them more vulnerable to variou...
See More- Solange Muglia Wechsler (Chair) Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil
Authors: Solange Muglia Wechsler
Creativity assessment always present challenges due to the complexity of constructs involved. Therefore, assessment can focus on cognitive processes, personality characteristics, social and cultural environment, as...
See More- Alina Von Davier (Chair) Senior Vice President, ACTNext
- Irini Moustaki (Speaker) LSE
Authors: Irini Moustaki
Chair: Alina von Davier
In this talk, I will present an overview of the history of Psychometrics in terms of methodological contributions, substantive applications in diverse fields and relationships with other disciplines....
See More- Joao Paulo Lessa (Chair) Estudante de mestrado, Universidade São Francisco
Oral presentation session
Chair: Joao Paulo Lessa
- Enrique Merino-Tejedor (Chair) University of Valladolid
Oral presentation session
Chair: Enrique Merino-Tejedor
- Karthik K V (Chair) Founding Team, Loop Reality
Oral presentation session
Chair: Karthik K V
- H. Cigdem Yavuz (Chair) Ankara University
Oral presentation session
Chair: H. Cigdem Yavuz
- Michelle Chen (Chair) Sponsor - Silver, Paragon Testing Enterprises
Oral presentation session
Chair: Michelle Y. Chen
- Anna Brown (Chair) Council Member, University of Kent
- Neal Schmitt (Discussant) On
Convenor: Anna Brown
Discussant: Neal Schmitt
Introduction. Multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) formats have been designed to increase the differentiation between responses to test items and thus prevent biases typically associated with the popul...
See More- Xiaohong Gao (Chair) Senior Director, ACT, Inc.
- Wayne Camara (Discussant) Horace Mann Research Chair, ACT
Convenor: Xiaohong Gao
Discussant: Wayne Camara
The symposium aims to highlight how both ACT and PSI Services identified practical issues, developed proposed models, and validated corresponding solutions in the process of overhauling workplace ass...
See More- Alex Casillas (Chair) Principal Research Psychologist, ACT
Authors: Alex Casillas
Introduction:
Those in the educational measurement community have struggled in recent years to operationalize the constructs defined in academic standards. In the U.S., individual states and consortia have used a variety of ...
See More- Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk (Chair) President, ePsy Consultancy
Authors: Dr Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk; Dr Adrian Furnham
Introduction
An argument for the validity of an assessment is persuasive when test evaluation seeks to confirm, falsify and contribute to revision. This is accomplished through the tradition...
See More- Fanny M. Cheung (Chair) Fellow, The CHinese University of Hong Kong
Authors: Fanny M. Cheung
Round-table: Psychological and educational testing and assessment are important tools for psychologists in their research and practice. In emerging economies where the profession is fledging, psychologists face many challe...
See MoreSpecial meal for the student scholarship awardees and their mentors.
- Dragos Iliescu (Chair) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
- Alina Von Davier (Speaker) Senior Vice President, ACTNext
Authors: Alina von Davier
Chair: Dragos Iliescu
Performance tasks in virtual environments result in rich data about the test takers' behavior. The more realistic the task, the more difficult it is to identify meaningful signals in these data from ...
See More- Michel Laurier (Chair) Université d'Ottawa
- Andre De Champlain, Ph.D. (Speaker) Director, Psychometrics and Assessment Services, Medical Council of Canada
Authors: André De Champlain
Chair: Michel Laurier
On-demand testing is commonplace with large-scale testing programs as it affords greater flexibility in scheduling as well as selection of a testing location for the candidate. However, this...
See MorePosters scheduled for poster session 1 will be displayed from 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM on Day 1 (July 3rd) in the Ballroom east. Presenters must show up at 11:30 AM to install their posters. The official poster session will be from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
See More- Sabruna Dorceus, Ph.D. (cand.), g.c. (Chair) Substitute professor, Université de Sherbrooke
Oral presentation session
Chair: Sabruna Dorceus
- Linda Reddy (Chair) Professor, Rutgers university
Oral presentation session
Chair: Linda A. Reddy
- Stéphanie Facchin (Chair) researcher, Cégep à distance
Oral presentation session
Chair: Stéphanie Facchin
- Matt Davidson (Chair) Univeristy of Washington College of Education
Oral presentation session
Chair: Matt Davidson
- Iris Bourgault Bouthillier (Chair) Université de Montréal
Oral presentation session
Chair: Iris Bourgault Bouthillier
- Angie Mcallister (Chair) SVP Research, ACT
- Ruth Childs (Discussant) University of Toronto
Convenor: Angie McAllister
Discussant: Ruth Childs
Online assessment is a key component in efforts to increase digital learning and global access to assessments. The symposia will focus on challenges and opportunities encountered in delivery of di...
See More- Daniel Danner (Chair) University of Applied Labour Studies, Mannheim
Authors: Daniel Danner
There is growing interest in assessing non-cognitive skills in large-scale survey. Non-cognitive skills describe abilities such as impulse-control, cooperativeness, or social skills and have been shown to predict education o...
See More- Richard Phelps (Chair) Independent Consultant, Nonpartisan Education Group
- Steve Sireci (Discussant) UMass
Convenor: Richard P Phelps
Discussant: Stephen Sireci
Chile runs a national centralized admission system for public-funded universities. Since 2004, the Prueba de Selección Universitaria (PSU) is Chile´s admission examination, used bo...
See More- Lin Gu (Chair) Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Authors: Lin Gu
Introduction
In response to a range of higher education trends, challenges, and paradigm shifts there is a growing need for internationally comparable data on student learning outcomes (SLO; Tremblay, Lalancette, & Roseveare, 2012)...
See More- Kadriye Ercikan (Chair) ETS/UBC
- Bruno D. Zumbo (Speaker) Professor & Distinguished University Scholar; Paragon UBC Professor, University of British Columbia
Authors: Bruno D. Zumbo
Chair: Kadriye Ercikan Alper
For the last nearly 20 years I have heard, on multiple occasions, about the (impending) demise of differential item functioning (DIF) research. I have been told that “DIF is dying”, ...
See More- Sara Ruto (Speaker) Head of the secretariat, People’s Action for Learning (PAL)
As increasing numbers of children enroll in school and the world moves closer to achieving universal primary education, national assessments can be a powerful mechanism for testing if the system works for all children. Assessments can identify pro...
See More- Mark Reckase (Chair) MSU
Oral presentation session
Chair: Mark D Reckase
- Musab Hayatli (Chair) Managing Director, cApStAn LQC Inc.
Oral presentation session
Chair: Steve Dept
- Gage Kingsbury (Chair) Private Consultant, Psychometric Consulting
Oral presentation session
Chair: G. Gage Kingsbury
- Hazel Wheldon (Chair) Vice President, Clinical and Education Division, MHS Inc
Oral presentation session
Chair: Hazel Wheldon
- Hudson Golino (Chair) Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Authors: Hudson Golino
In spite of all the methodological advances, there is a number of issues that are still present in the activities of researchers interested in designing assessment instruments, in special tests and questionnaires. The effect...
See More- Avi Allalouf (Chair) Workshop Facilitator (am), NITE
Authors: Avi Allalouf; Joan Herman
Tests serve as the basis for important decisions in many fields. Employers and institutions of higher education use tests to screen applicants; psychologists use them to diagnose personality traits; polygraph exa...
See More- Neal Schmitt (Chair) On
Authors: Neal Schmitt
The purpose of this symposium is to familiarize our membership with the nature of the various ITC publications, the purpose of those publications, our current products, and how members can contribute to these publications.
&n...
See More- Katharina Lochner (Chair) Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Europe
Authors: Katharina Lochner
Digitization has the potential to lead to major changes in the area of psychometric testing: behaviour while completing an online assessment or an online game, or more generally, while browsing the web can be used to inf...
See More- Mengxiao Zhu (Chair) Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- Steve Sireci (Discussant) UMass
Convenor: Mengxiao Zhu
Discussant: Steve Sireci
Digitally based assessments (DBAs) allow us to capture not only the final response but also the time-stamped response process. The process data contains rich information that cannot be obtained from ...
See More- Danielle Young (Chair) Westat
Oral presentation session
Chair: Danielle Young
- Angel Arias (Chair) Head of Language Testing Services, University of Ottawa
Oral presentation session
Chair: Angel Arias
- Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk (Chair) President, ePsy Consultancy
Oral presentation session
Chair: Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk
- Eric Frenette (Chair) Laval Univrsity
Oral presentation session
Chair: Eric Frenette
- Lara Montefiori (Chair) Arctic Shores; University College London (UCL)
- Liam Close (Discussant) PHD Researcher, Birkbeck, University of London
Convenor: Lara Montefiori
Discussant: Liam Close
As the use of Game-Based Assessment (GBA) is becoming more and more widespread, evidence is starting to accumulate on the occupational and educational outcomes of this novel assessment approach and ...
See More- Gary L. Canivez (Chair) Workshop Facilitator (full day), Eastern Illinois University
Authors: Gary L. Canivez
Wechsler intelligence scales are among the most frequently used individual measures of cognitive abilities world-wide (Georgas, van de Vijver, Weiss, & Saklofske, 2003; Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2009) with several translati...
See More- MingJie Zhou (Chair) Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Authors: MingJie Zhou; Jianxin Zhang
The Cross-cultural Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) was constructed by adopting a combined etic-emic approach – an approach that takes into account both universal and cultural-specific aspects of p...
See More- John Hackston (Chair) Head of Thought Leadership, OPP
Authors: John Hackston
Textbooks and training in test use have emphasised a number of ‘types’ of validity such as predictive and concurrent criterion-related validity, construct validity, content validity and face validity. These have ...
See More- Dragos Iliescu (Chair) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
- Fanny M. Cheung (Speakers) Fellow, The CHinese University of Hong Kong
- Solange Muglia Wechsler (Speakers) Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil
- Peter Macqueen (Speakers) Principal, Compass Consulting
- Sverre L Nielsen (Speakers) Norwegian Psychological Association
Authors: Dragos Iliescu; Sverre Leonhard Nielsen; Fanny Cheung; Solange Wechsler; Oleg Burlachuk; Peter Macqueen
The International Project on Competences in Psychology (IPCP) has worked for three years to achieve an international agreement on whic...
See More- Sébastien Béland (Chair) Organizers, Université de Montréal
- David Magis (Speaker) Research Associate of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Liège
Authors: David Magis
Chair: Sébastien Béland
This talk will cover the topic of adaptive testing in psychometrics, both at the item level (CAT) and at the module level (MST). The presentation is divided in three parts. First, a brief ...
See More- Jacques Gregoire (Chair) Council Member, University of Louvain
- John Hattie (Speaker) Laureate Professor and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne
Authors: John Hattie
Chair: Jacques Grégoire
Based on the synthesis of meta-analysis relating to achievement and recently to How we learn, this presentation outlines the role of assessment as feedback to teachers about their impact. It emph...
See MorePosters scheduled for poster session 2 will be displayed from 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM on Day 2 (July 4th) in the Ballroom east. Presenters must show up at 11:30 AM to install their posters. The official poster session will be from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM.
See MoreThe conference "jazz" dinner will be held on the site of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, which holds the Guinness record for the world’s largest jazz festival. The hotel terrace offers an astounding view on the festival site, and a...
See More- Chantale Jeanrie (Chair) Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
Oral presentation session
Chair: Chantale Jeanrie
- Guillaume Loignon (Chair) Organizers, Université de Montréal
Oral presentation session
Chair: Guillaume Loignon
- Thomas Pennaforte (Chair) Université De Montréal
Chair: Thomas Pennaforte
- Alina Lutsyk (Chair) Graduate Research Assistant, University of Alberta
Oral presentation session
Chair: Alina Lutsyk
- Ariadna Benito (Chair)
Oral presentation session
Chair: Ariadna Benito
- Lale Khorramdel (Chair) ETS
Authors: Lale Khorramdel; Kadriye Ercikan; Leslie Rutkowski
Recently, large-scale assessments, such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and the ...
See More- Ronny Scherer (Chair) University Of Oslo
- Samuel Greiff (Discussant) ATTRACT fellow, University of Luxembourg
Convenor: Ronny Scherer
Discussant: Samuel Greiff
This symposium presents the opportunities that come with the technological advancements in assessments and showcases empirical research on current innovations in computer-based assessments (CBAs) o...
See More- Rich Thompson (Chair) Divisional Director, Research, CPP, Inc.
Authors: Richard C. Thompson
Individual stress and burnout are growing problems for many people across diverse settings. Recommendations for interventions, however, often take on a one-size-fits-all approach, with general recommendations assumed t...
See More- François Pichette (Chair)
- Angel Arias (Speakers) Head of Language Testing Services, University of Ottawa
- Dominique Casanova (Speakers) CCI Paris Ile-de-France
- Bruno D. Zumbo (Speakers) Professor & Distinguished University Scholar; Paragon UBC Professor, University of British Columbia
- Carol Chapelle (Speakers) Iowa State University
Authors: François Pichette; Angel Arias; Dominique Casanova; Carol Chapelle; Bruno Zumbo
Round-table: New technologies offer researchers and educators an increasingly wide array of tools for testing language competence. In addition to test ...
See More- Kurt F.Geisinger (Chair)
- Leslie Rutkowski (Speaker) Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Authors: Leslie Rutkowski
Chair: Kurt Geisinger
In the 2018 cycle of PISA, 80 educational systems have committed to participation, with new additions that include Brunei Darussalam, a relatively wealthy newcomer to international assessments, the P...
See More- Angel Arias (Chair) Head of Language Testing Services, University of Ottawa
- Steve Sireci (Speaker) UMass
Authors: Stephen Sireci
Chair: Angel Arias
Descriptions of validity that imply it is an inherent property of a test are misguided because tests are designed for specific purposes. As the AERA et al. (2014) Standards for Educational and Psychologic...
See More- Bruno D. Zumbo (Chair) Professor & Distinguished University Scholar; Paragon UBC Professor, University of British Columbia
Oral presentation session
Chair: Bruno D. Zumbo
- Jonathan Wedman (Chair) Senior lecturer in Educational Measurement, Umeå University
Oral presentation session
Chair: Jonathan Wedman
- Jean-Luc Gilles (Chair) HEP Vaud
Oral presentation session
Chair: Jean-Luc GILLES
- Richard Phelps (Chair) Independent Consultant, Nonpartisan Education Group
Oral presentation session
Chair: Richard P Phelps
- Samuel Greiff (Chair) ATTRACT fellow, University of Luxembourg
Oral presentation session
Chair: Samuel Greiff
- Dragos Iliescu (Chair) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
Authors: Dragos Iliescu
This symposium provides a forum for discussion of the recent trend in psychological assessment toward prediction using large, unstructured, data sources – “Big Data.” Forms of scientific assessment are now...
See More- John Weiner (Chair) EVP and Chief Science Officer, PSI Services LLC
Authors: John Weiner
Personality and related noncogntive assessments are receiving increased attention in the fields of education, credentialing and human capital management as organizations realize the importance of attributes such as teamwork, l...
See More- Cathy Wendler (Chair) ETS
- Kurt F.Geisinger (Discussant)
Convenor: Cathy Wendler
Discussant: Kurt Geisinger
This symposium will describe the content and present examples of chapters that will be covered in an ITC-sponsored book on international perspectives in higher education admissions. The various ch...
See More- Angela Verschoor (Chair) senior researcher, Cito
Authors: Angela Verschoor
Introduction
Automated Test Assembly (ATA) addresses issues that are important for making valid decisions about individual test takers, such as 1) coverage of relevant attributes on all targeted levels of difficult...
See More- Aletta Ofendaal (Chair) Council Member, Stellenbosch University
- Gideon de Bruin (Speaker) Keynote Speaker, Stellenbosch University
Authors: Gideon P. de Bruin
Chair: Aletta Odendaal
I address the challenges that psychological testing in the multicultural South African context present to test developers and psychologists. In this respect I examine gains and losses that have be...
See More- Nathalie Loye (Chair) Professor, University of Montréal
- Maryam Wagner (Speaker) Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, McGill University
Authors: Maryam Wagner
Chair: Nathalie Loye
Cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) has drawn much attention in educational assessment in recent years (DiBello, Roussos, & Stout, 2007; Jang, 2005; 2008; Leighton & Griel, 2007; Nichols, 1994; Nichols...
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9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Jarry
Speaker
- Alina Von Davier (Speakers) Senior Vice President, ACTNext
- Kristin Stoeffler (Speakers) Assessment Designer, ACT; University of Luxemburg
Description
Authors: Alina Von Davier; Kristin Stoeffler
Workshop Objectives
The goal of the tutorial is for the participants to learn about the considerations for test development and the computational psychometrics methods for the collaborative problem solv...
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9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Kafka
Speaker
- Gary L. Canivez (Speaker) Workshop Facilitator (full day), Eastern Illinois University
Description
Authors: Gary L. Canivez
Workshop Objectives
Participants will learn ethical principles and test standards governing test interpretation and the necessary psychometric principles and procedures assessing viability of test scores and comparisons.
&...
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9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Salon 1
Speaker
- Jaehwa Choi (Speaker) Workshop Facilitator (full day), The George Washington University
Description
Authors: Jaehwa Choi
Workshop objectives
Aims of this workshop will be introducing both a theoretical and practical introduction to Automatic Item Generation (AIG), which is an emerging research area and an innovative assessment approach for gener...
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9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Salon 2
Speaker
- Jose-Luis Padilla (Speaker) Associate Professor, University of Granada
Description
Authors: Jose-Luis Padilla; Isabel Benítez
Workshop Objectives
The main aim is attendees learn how to design and conduct a mixed-methods research using cognitive interviewing for interpreting DIF/bias in cross-lingual and cultural testing p...
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9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Salon 5
Speaker
- Linda Cook (Speakers) Workshop Facilitator (full day), ETS
- Wayne Camara (Speakers) Horace Mann Research Chair, ACT
- Kadriye Ercikan (Speakers) ETS/UBC
- Joan Herman (Speakers) UCLA/CRESST
Description
Authors: Linda Cook; Wayne Camara; Joan Herman; Kadriye Ercikan
Workshop Objectives
Participants will learn ethical principles and test standards governing test interpretation and the necessary psychometric principles and procedures assessing viab...
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9:00 am - 12:15 pm
Lamartine
Speaker
- Won-Chan Lee (Speakers) University of Iowa
- Kyung (Chris) T. Han (Speakers) Senior Director, Psychometric Research, Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®)
Description
Authors: Won-Chan Lee; Kyung (Chris) T. Han; Hyung Jin Kim
Workshop Objectives
The goal of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for participants to acquire knowledge of equating and hands-on experience using equating programs for their opera...
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9:00 am - 12:15 pm
Salon 3
Speaker
- Avi Allalouf (Speaker) Workshop Facilitator (am), NITE
Description
Authors: Avi Allalouf
Summary
Accuracy is essential in all stages of testing, beginning with test development and administration, through to scoring, test analysis, and score reporting. QC procedures are required in all these stages, especially in...
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9:00 am - 12:15 pm
Hémon
Speaker
- Maria Elena Oliveri (Speakers) Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- April Zenisky (Speakers) UMass-Amherst
Description
Authors: Maria Elena Oliveri; April Zenisky
Workshop Objectives
Participants will gain familiarity with innovative approaches to designing items, task sets, and score reports in support of the fair and valid assessment of culturally and linguistic...
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10:30 am - 10:45 am
Foyer A; Foyer 2
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Drummond Centre
1:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Hémon
Speaker
- Jorge González (Speakers) Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Marie Wiberg (Speakers) Umeå university, Sweden
Description
Authors: Marie Wiberg; Jorge González
Workshop Objectives
The main objective is to introduce equating and let the attendees get a conceptual and practical understanding of various equating methods by using different data sets within the R s...
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1:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Lamartine
Speaker
- Dragos Iliescu (Speaker) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
Description
Authors: Dragos Iliescu
Workshop Objectives
Understand the principles behind test adaptation and interpret them in practical terms relevant to psychological practice and research;
Understand how judgmental and empirical procedures contribute to te...
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Foyer A; Foyer 2
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Ballroom West
Description
Opening Ceremony, awards and presidential address:
Opening ceremony - Nathalie Loye
Thomas Oakland Award presentation – Stephen Sireci
Best paper Awards presentation - Carla Barroso
Presidential Adress - Dragos Iliescu
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6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Salon 5
7:45 am - 8:30 am
Ballroom East/Centre
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 3
Speaker
- Nathan Roberson (Chair) University of British Columbia
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Nathan D Roberson
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 5
Speaker
- Jean-Sebastien Renaud (Chair) Professeur agrégé, Université Laval
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Jean-Sébastien Renaud
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 2
Speaker
- Justin August (Chair) Lecturer, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Justin August
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Musset
Speaker
- Hariharan Swaminathan (Chair) Professor, University of Connecticut
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Hariharan Swaminathan
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 4
Speaker
- Christine Doe (Chair) MSVU
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Christine Doe
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 1
Speaker
- Lara Montefiori (Chair) Arctic Shores; University College London (UCL)
Description
Authors: Lara Montefiori
Game-Based Assessment (GBA) is a recent evolution in psychological assessment that combines game technology and psychological testing. Being a relatively new field, empirical evidence on this approach is scarce compared to...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon Drummond East
Speaker
- Kadriye Ercikan (Chair) ETS/UBC
- John Hattie (Discussant) Laureate Professor and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne
Description
Convenor: Kadriye Ercikan
Discussant: John Hattie
Digitally based assessments provide data about examinees’ engagement with tests that was not possible in paper based assessments. Process data, also referred to as “observed data”...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 6
Speaker
- Dylan Molenaar (Chair) Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
Description
Authors: Dylan Molenaar
Introduction
Recently, interest has grown in adding the item response times to the traditional psychometric analysis of the item responses. Many methods have been proposed that extend existing psychometric tools (like the t...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 7
Speaker
- Christina Sison (Chair) Research Associate, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde
Description
Authors: Christina S. Sison
Deaf individuals receive very limited access to appropriate psychological assessment services (Wood & Dockrell, 2010; Freeman, 1989) . This leads to limited support provided to them making them more vulnerable to variou...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Hémon
Speaker
- Solange Muglia Wechsler (Chair) Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil
Description
Authors: Solange Muglia Wechsler
Creativity assessment always present challenges due to the complexity of constructs involved. Therefore, assessment can focus on cognitive processes, personality characteristics, social and cultural environment, as...
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10:15 am - 11:15 am
Ballroom West
Speaker
- Alina Von Davier (Chair) Senior Vice President, ACTNext
- Irini Moustaki (Speaker) LSE
Description
Authors: Irini Moustaki
Chair: Alina von Davier
In this talk, I will present an overview of the history of Psychometrics in terms of methodological contributions, substantive applications in diverse fields and relationships with other disciplines....
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11:15 am - 11:45 am
Ballroom East/Centre
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 6
Speaker
- Joao Paulo Lessa (Chair) Estudante de mestrado, Universidade São Francisco
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Joao Paulo Lessa
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 2
Speaker
- Enrique Merino-Tejedor (Chair) University of Valladolid
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Enrique Merino-Tejedor
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 1
Speaker
- Karthik K V (Chair) Founding Team, Loop Reality
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Karthik K V
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 7
Speaker
- H. Cigdem Yavuz (Chair) Ankara University
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: H. Cigdem Yavuz
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 4
Speaker
- Michelle Chen (Chair) Sponsor - Silver, Paragon Testing Enterprises
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Michelle Y. Chen
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 5
Speaker
- Anna Brown (Chair) Council Member, University of Kent
- Neal Schmitt (Discussant) On
Description
Convenor: Anna Brown
Discussant: Neal Schmitt
Introduction. Multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) formats have been designed to increase the differentiation between responses to test items and thus prevent biases typically associated with the popul...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 3
Speaker
- Xiaohong Gao (Chair) Senior Director, ACT, Inc.
- Wayne Camara (Discussant) Horace Mann Research Chair, ACT
Description
Convenor: Xiaohong Gao
Discussant: Wayne Camara
The symposium aims to highlight how both ACT and PSI Services identified practical issues, developed proposed models, and validated corresponding solutions in the process of overhauling workplace ass...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Musset
Speaker
- Alex Casillas (Chair) Principal Research Psychologist, ACT
Description
Authors: Alex Casillas
Introduction:
Those in the educational measurement community have struggled in recent years to operationalize the constructs defined in academic standards. In the U.S., individual states and consortia have used a variety of ...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon Drummond East
Speaker
- Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk (Chair) President, ePsy Consultancy
Description
Authors: Dr Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk; Dr Adrian Furnham
Introduction
An argument for the validity of an assessment is persuasive when test evaluation seeks to confirm, falsify and contribute to revision. This is accomplished through the tradition...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon Hémon
Speaker
- Fanny M. Cheung (Chair) Fellow, The CHinese University of Hong Kong
Description
Authors: Fanny M. Cheung
Round-table: Psychological and educational testing and assessment are important tools for psychologists in their research and practice. In emerging economies where the profession is fledging, psychologists face many challe...
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1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Ballroom East/Centre
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Lamartine
Description
Special meal for the student scholarship awardees and their mentors.
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ballroom West
Speaker
- Dragos Iliescu (Chair) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
- Alina Von Davier (Speaker) Senior Vice President, ACTNext
Description
Authors: Alina von Davier
Chair: Dragos Iliescu
Performance tasks in virtual environments result in rich data about the test takers' behavior. The more realistic the task, the more difficult it is to identify meaningful signals in these data from ...
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Drummond Centre/West
Speaker
- Michel Laurier (Chair) Université d'Ottawa
- Andre De Champlain, Ph.D. (Speaker) Director, Psychometrics and Assessment Services, Medical Council of Canada
Description
Authors: André De Champlain
Chair: Michel Laurier
On-demand testing is commonplace with large-scale testing programs as it affords greater flexibility in scheduling as well as selection of a testing location for the candidate. However, this...
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Ballroom East/Centre
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Ballroom West
Speaker
- Ronald K. Hambleton (Speaker) Other, University of Massachusetts Amherst
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Ballroom East
Description
Posters scheduled for poster session 1 will be displayed from 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM on Day 1 (July 3rd) in the Ballroom east. Presenters must show up at 11:30 AM to install their posters. The official poster session will be from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
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7:00 am - 7:45 am
Sheraton's main entrance
7:45 am - 8:30 am
Ballroom East/Centre
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 2
Speaker
- Sabruna Dorceus, Ph.D. (cand.), g.c. (Chair) Substitute professor, Université de Sherbrooke
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Sabruna Dorceus
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon Drummond East
Speaker
- Linda Reddy (Chair) Professor, Rutgers university
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Linda A. Reddy
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 5
Speaker
- Stéphanie Facchin (Chair) researcher, Cégep à distance
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Stéphanie Facchin
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 6
Speaker
- Matt Davidson (Chair) Univeristy of Washington College of Education
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Matt Davidson
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 1
Speaker
- Iris Bourgault Bouthillier (Chair) Université de Montréal
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Iris Bourgault Bouthillier
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 3
Speaker
- Angie Mcallister (Chair) SVP Research, ACT
- Ruth Childs (Discussant) University of Toronto
Description
Convenor: Angie McAllister
Discussant: Ruth Childs
Online assessment is a key component in efforts to increase digital learning and global access to assessments. The symposia will focus on challenges and opportunities encountered in delivery of di...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 7
Speaker
- Daniel Danner (Chair) University of Applied Labour Studies, Mannheim
Description
Authors: Daniel Danner
There is growing interest in assessing non-cognitive skills in large-scale survey. Non-cognitive skills describe abilities such as impulse-control, cooperativeness, or social skills and have been shown to predict education o...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Musset
Speaker
- Richard Phelps (Chair) Independent Consultant, Nonpartisan Education Group
- Steve Sireci (Discussant) UMass
Description
Convenor: Richard P Phelps
Discussant: Stephen Sireci
Chile runs a national centralized admission system for public-funded universities. Since 2004, the Prueba de Selección Universitaria (PSU) is Chile´s admission examination, used bo...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Hémon
Speaker
- Lin Gu (Chair) Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Description
Authors: Lin Gu
Introduction
In response to a range of higher education trends, challenges, and paradigm shifts there is a growing need for internationally comparable data on student learning outcomes (SLO; Tremblay, Lalancette, & Roseveare, 2012)...
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10:15 am - 11:15 am
Ballroom West
Speaker
- Kadriye Ercikan (Chair) ETS/UBC
- Bruno D. Zumbo (Speaker) Professor & Distinguished University Scholar; Paragon UBC Professor, University of British Columbia
Description
Authors: Bruno D. Zumbo
Chair: Kadriye Ercikan Alper
For the last nearly 20 years I have heard, on multiple occasions, about the (impending) demise of differential item functioning (DIF) research. I have been told that “DIF is dying”, ...
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10:15 am - 11:15 am
Speaker
- Sara Ruto (Speaker) Head of the secretariat, People’s Action for Learning (PAL)
Description
As increasing numbers of children enroll in school and the world moves closer to achieving universal primary education, national assessments can be a powerful mechanism for testing if the system works for all children. Assessments can identify pro...
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11:15 am - 11:45 am
Ballroom East/Centre
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Hémon
Speaker
- Mark Reckase (Chair) MSU
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Mark D Reckase
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 3
Speaker
- Musab Hayatli (Chair) Managing Director, cApStAn LQC Inc.
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Steve Dept
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 6
Speaker
- Gage Kingsbury (Chair) Private Consultant, Psychometric Consulting
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: G. Gage Kingsbury
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 2
Speaker
- Hazel Wheldon (Chair) Vice President, Clinical and Education Division, MHS Inc
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Hazel Wheldon
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Musset
Speaker
- Hudson Golino (Chair) Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Description
Authors: Hudson Golino
In spite of all the methodological advances, there is a number of issues that are still present in the activities of researchers interested in designing assessment instruments, in special tests and questionnaires. The effect...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 5
Speaker
- Avi Allalouf (Chair) Workshop Facilitator (am), NITE
Description
Authors: Avi Allalouf; Joan Herman
Tests serve as the basis for important decisions in many fields. Employers and institutions of higher education use tests to screen applicants; psychologists use them to diagnose personality traits; polygraph exa...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon Drummond East
Speaker
- Neal Schmitt (Chair) On
Description
Authors: Neal Schmitt
The purpose of this symposium is to familiarize our membership with the nature of the various ITC publications, the purpose of those publications, our current products, and how members can contribute to these publications.
&n...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 1
Speaker
- Katharina Lochner (Chair) Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Europe
Description
Authors: Katharina Lochner
Digitization has the potential to lead to major changes in the area of psychometric testing: behaviour while completing an online assessment or an online game, or more generally, while browsing the web can be used to inf...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 4
Speaker
- Mengxiao Zhu (Chair) Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- Steve Sireci (Discussant) UMass
Description
Convenor: Mengxiao Zhu
Discussant: Steve Sireci
Digitally based assessments (DBAs) allow us to capture not only the final response but also the time-stamped response process. The process data contains rich information that cannot be obtained from ...
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1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Ballroom East/Centre
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Salon 5
Speaker
- Danielle Young (Chair) Westat
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Danielle Young
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Hémon
Speaker
- Angel Arias (Chair) Head of Language Testing Services, University of Ottawa
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Angel Arias
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Salon 1
Speaker
- Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk (Chair) President, ePsy Consultancy
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Salon Drummond East
Speaker
- Eric Frenette (Chair) Laval Univrsity
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Eric Frenette
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Salon 3
Speaker
- Lara Montefiori (Chair) Arctic Shores; University College London (UCL)
- Liam Close (Discussant) PHD Researcher, Birkbeck, University of London
Description
Convenor: Lara Montefiori
Discussant: Liam Close
As the use of Game-Based Assessment (GBA) is becoming more and more widespread, evidence is starting to accumulate on the occupational and educational outcomes of this novel assessment approach and ...
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Salon 6
Speaker
- Gary L. Canivez (Chair) Workshop Facilitator (full day), Eastern Illinois University
Description
Authors: Gary L. Canivez
Wechsler intelligence scales are among the most frequently used individual measures of cognitive abilities world-wide (Georgas, van de Vijver, Weiss, & Saklofske, 2003; Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2009) with several translati...
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Musset
Speaker
- MingJie Zhou (Chair) Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Description
Authors: MingJie Zhou; Jianxin Zhang
The Cross-cultural Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) was constructed by adopting a combined etic-emic approach – an approach that takes into account both universal and cultural-specific aspects of p...
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Salon 2
Speaker
- John Hackston (Chair) Head of Thought Leadership, OPP
Description
Authors: John Hackston
Textbooks and training in test use have emphasised a number of ‘types’ of validity such as predictive and concurrent criterion-related validity, construct validity, content validity and face validity. These have ...
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Salon 4
Speaker
- Dragos Iliescu (Chair) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
- Fanny M. Cheung (Speakers) Fellow, The CHinese University of Hong Kong
- Solange Muglia Wechsler (Speakers) Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil
- Peter Macqueen (Speakers) Principal, Compass Consulting
- Sverre L Nielsen (Speakers) Norwegian Psychological Association
Description
Authors: Dragos Iliescu; Sverre Leonhard Nielsen; Fanny Cheung; Solange Wechsler; Oleg Burlachuk; Peter Macqueen
The International Project on Competences in Psychology (IPCP) has worked for three years to achieve an international agreement on whic...
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4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Ballroom East/Centre
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Drummond Centre/West
Speaker
- Sébastien Béland (Chair) Organizers, Université de Montréal
- David Magis (Speaker) Research Associate of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Liège
Description
Authors: David Magis
Chair: Sébastien Béland
This talk will cover the topic of adaptive testing in psychometrics, both at the item level (CAT) and at the module level (MST). The presentation is divided in three parts. First, a brief ...
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Ballroom West
Speaker
- Jacques Gregoire (Chair) Council Member, University of Louvain
- John Hattie (Speaker) Laureate Professor and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne
Description
Authors: John Hattie
Chair: Jacques Grégoire
Based on the synthesis of meta-analysis relating to achievement and recently to How we learn, this presentation outlines the role of assessment as feedback to teachers about their impact. It emph...
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5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Ballroom West
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Ballroom East
Description
Posters scheduled for poster session 2 will be displayed from 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM on Day 2 (July 4th) in the Ballroom east. Presenters must show up at 11:30 AM to install their posters. The official poster session will be from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM.
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7:45 pm - 11:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Montreal
Description
The conference "jazz" dinner will be held on the site of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, which holds the Guinness record for the world’s largest jazz festival. The hotel terrace offers an astounding view on the festival site, and a...
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7:45 am - 8:30 am
Ballroom East/Centre
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 4
Speaker
- Chantale Jeanrie (Chair) Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Chantale Jeanrie
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 2
Speaker
- Guillaume Loignon (Chair) Organizers, Université de Montréal
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Guillaume Loignon
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 3
Speaker
- Thomas Pennaforte (Chair) Université De Montréal
Description
Chair: Thomas Pennaforte
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 1
Speaker
- Alina Lutsyk (Chair) Graduate Research Assistant, University of Alberta
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Alina Lutsyk
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 6
Speaker
- Ariadna Benito (Chair)
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Ariadna Benito
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon 5
Speaker
- Lale Khorramdel (Chair) ETS
Description
Authors: Lale Khorramdel; Kadriye Ercikan; Leslie Rutkowski
Recently, large-scale assessments, such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and the ...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon Drummond East
Speaker
- Ronny Scherer (Chair) University Of Oslo
- Samuel Greiff (Discussant) ATTRACT fellow, University of Luxembourg
Description
Convenor: Ronny Scherer
Discussant: Samuel Greiff
This symposium presents the opportunities that come with the technological advancements in assessments and showcases empirical research on current innovations in computer-based assessments (CBAs) o...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Musset
Speaker
- Rich Thompson (Chair) Divisional Director, Research, CPP, Inc.
Description
Authors: Richard C. Thompson
Individual stress and burnout are growing problems for many people across diverse settings. Recommendations for interventions, however, often take on a one-size-fits-all approach, with general recommendations assumed t...
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8:30 am - 10:00 am
Salon Hémon
Speaker
- François Pichette (Chair)
- Angel Arias (Speakers) Head of Language Testing Services, University of Ottawa
- Dominique Casanova (Speakers) CCI Paris Ile-de-France
- Bruno D. Zumbo (Speakers) Professor & Distinguished University Scholar; Paragon UBC Professor, University of British Columbia
- Carol Chapelle (Speakers) Iowa State University
Description
Authors: François Pichette; Angel Arias; Dominique Casanova; Carol Chapelle; Bruno Zumbo
Round-table: New technologies offer researchers and educators an increasingly wide array of tools for testing language competence. In addition to test ...
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10:15 am - 11:15 am
Drummond Centre/West
Speaker
- Kurt F.Geisinger (Chair)
- Leslie Rutkowski (Speaker) Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Description
Authors: Leslie Rutkowski
Chair: Kurt Geisinger
In the 2018 cycle of PISA, 80 educational systems have committed to participation, with new additions that include Brunei Darussalam, a relatively wealthy newcomer to international assessments, the P...
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10:15 am - 11:15 am
Ballroom West
Speaker
- Angel Arias (Chair) Head of Language Testing Services, University of Ottawa
- Steve Sireci (Speaker) UMass
Description
Authors: Stephen Sireci
Chair: Angel Arias
Descriptions of validity that imply it is an inherent property of a test are misguided because tests are designed for specific purposes. As the AERA et al. (2014) Standards for Educational and Psychologic...
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11:15 am - 11:45 am
Ballroom East/Centre
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 2
Speaker
- Bruno D. Zumbo (Chair) Professor & Distinguished University Scholar; Paragon UBC Professor, University of British Columbia
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Bruno D. Zumbo
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 3
Speaker
- Jonathan Wedman (Chair) Senior lecturer in Educational Measurement, Umeå University
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Jonathan Wedman
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Musset
Speaker
- Jean-Luc Gilles (Chair) HEP Vaud
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Jean-Luc GILLES
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 6
Speaker
- Richard Phelps (Chair) Independent Consultant, Nonpartisan Education Group
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Richard P Phelps
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon Drummond East
Speaker
- Samuel Greiff (Chair) ATTRACT fellow, University of Luxembourg
Description
Oral presentation session
Chair: Samuel Greiff
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 1
Speaker
- Dragos Iliescu (Chair) Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
Description
Authors: Dragos Iliescu
This symposium provides a forum for discussion of the recent trend in psychological assessment toward prediction using large, unstructured, data sources – “Big Data.” Forms of scientific assessment are now...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Hémon
Speaker
- John Weiner (Chair) EVP and Chief Science Officer, PSI Services LLC
Description
Authors: John Weiner
Personality and related noncogntive assessments are receiving increased attention in the fields of education, credentialing and human capital management as organizations realize the importance of attributes such as teamwork, l...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 5
Speaker
- Cathy Wendler (Chair) ETS
- Kurt F.Geisinger (Discussant)
Description
Convenor: Cathy Wendler
Discussant: Kurt Geisinger
This symposium will describe the content and present examples of chapters that will be covered in an ITC-sponsored book on international perspectives in higher education admissions. The various ch...
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11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Salon 4
Speaker
- Angela Verschoor (Chair) senior researcher, Cito
Description
Authors: Angela Verschoor
Introduction
Automated Test Assembly (ATA) addresses issues that are important for making valid decisions about individual test takers, such as 1) coverage of relevant attributes on all targeted levels of difficult...
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1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Salon 7
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Ballroom East/Centre
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Ballroom West
Speaker
- Aletta Ofendaal (Chair) Council Member, Stellenbosch University
- Gideon de Bruin (Speaker) Keynote Speaker, Stellenbosch University
Description
Authors: Gideon P. de Bruin
Chair: Aletta Odendaal
I address the challenges that psychological testing in the multicultural South African context present to test developers and psychologists. In this respect I examine gains and losses that have be...
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Drummond Centre/West
Speaker
- Nathalie Loye (Chair) Professor, University of Montréal
- Maryam Wagner (Speaker) Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, McGill University
Description
Authors: Maryam Wagner
Chair: Nathalie Loye
Cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) has drawn much attention in educational assessment in recent years (DiBello, Roussos, & Stout, 2007; Jang, 2005; 2008; Leighton & Griel, 2007; Nichols, 1994; Nichols...
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Ballroom West
Jul 2 - 5, 2018