Brown Bag 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.
All lectures take place in Keating Hall 3rd Floor Auditorium at 11:30 a.m. Lunch is provided afterwards in Dealy Hall room 330.
2008-2009
Jay Breyer, Ph.D. – October 2, 2008
Executive Director, Psychometrics, Prometric, Inc.
Things I Know Now But I Wish I Knew Then: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach for Psychometrics Studies
John Verkuilen, Ph.D. – November 12, 2008
Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
Factor Analysis for Nominal Data With Log-Multiplicative Analysis Models
Jimmy de la Torre, Ph.D. – December 3, 2008
Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Rutgers University
TBA
Robert L. Brennan, Ph.D. – December 10, 2008
E. F. Lindquist Chair in Measurement and Testing & Director of CASMA, University of Iowa
Measurement Theory and Its Models
Patrick Shrout, Ph.D. – February 11, 2009
Professor of Psychology, New York University
Mediation Analysis Made Easy and Difficult
Matthias von Davier, Ph.D. – February 25, 2009
Principal Research Scientist, ETS International
Large Scale Survey Assessment Research - Design, Analysis, and Reporting
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
Professor of Health Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
A Noninvasive Procedure for Collecting Sensitive information
Frank Rijmen, Ph.D. - November 12, 2007
Psychometrician, Educational Testing Service
A nonlinear mixed model framework for item response theory
Michael Kolen, Ph.D. - December 5, 2007
Professor and Program Coordinator of Educational Measurement & Statistics, University of Iowa
Test equating: concepts and research
2006-2007
Keith Markus, Ph.D. - November 2, 2006
Associate Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Cautions on Casual Causal Analysis: The Perspective of Causal Pluralism
Henry Braun, Ph.D. - December 14, 2006
Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy, Boston College
The Black-White Achievement Gap
Alina von Davier, Ph.D. - February 8, 2007
Director Research, Educational Testing Service
The Kernel Method of Test Equating: Introduction and Software Demonstration
David Rindskopf, Ph.D. - March 19, 2007
Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
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
Distinguished Research Scientist, National Board of Medical Examiners
Motivating students to learn: The most dangerous equation as an example |
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