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Lecture Series

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FCAP hosts a lecture series with guest speakers from other universities and organizations. Please see below for a schedule of the lectures. All are welcome.

2007-2008

Masters Theses Presentations – September 2007

• Julie DiPopolo, M.A., The Effects of Collective Self-Esteem on Individual Self-esteem in an Online Sample with Varying Dimensions of Body Modification
• Xinhui Xiong, M.A., M.S., Accuracy of Estimating Item Parameters for the Rasch Model Based on Small Sample Sizes

Samprit Chatterjee, Ph.D. – October 24, 2007
A Noninvasive Procedure for Collecting Senstive information

Frank Rijmen, Ph.D. – November 12, 2007
A nonlinear mixed model framework for item response theory

Michael Kolen, Ph.D. – December 5, 2007
Test equating: concepts and research

2006-2007

Keith Markus, Ph.D. – November 2, 2006
Cautions on Casual Causal Analysis: The Perspective of Causal Pluralism

Henry Braun, Ph.D. – December 14, 2006
The Black-White Achievement Gap

Alina von Davier, Ph.D. – February 8, 2007
The Kernel Method of Test Equating: Introduction and Software Demonstration

David Rindskopf, Ph.D. – March 19, 2007
Meta-analysis Using Multi-level and Bayesian Models- How to summarize a large number of studies with modern statistical methods

Howard Wainer, Ph.D. – April 2, 2007
Motivating students to learn: The most dangerous equation as an example