American Institutes for Research Experts to Participate in National Council on Measurement in Education’s Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C. – Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss test security, automated scoring and other topics during the National Council on Measurement in Education’s (NCME) annual meeting being held April 26-30, 2013, at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, Calif.
NCME is a professional organization for individuals involved in assessment, evaluation, testing and other aspects of educational measurement. Members are involved in the construction and use of standardized tests; new forms of assessment, including performance-based assessment; program design; and program evaluation.
AIR presentations include:
April 26
Mutidimensional Item Response Theory: Theory and Applications and BMIRT, LinkMIRT, and SimuMIRT Software
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Cathedral Hill, 4th Floor, DD
AIR Presenter: Yuan Hong
April 28
Practical Issues in Automated Scoring
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Grand Ballroom C, 3rd floor Coordinated Session, D3
AIR Presenter: Jon Cohen
Teacher Effectiveness: Qualitative Measures 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Twin Peaks, 4th Floor
Individual Session, E3
AIR Moderator: Arie Van der Ploeg
April 29
Test Security Coordinated Sessions I: Technical/Statistical/Methodological Issues
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Grand Ballroom A, 3rd floor Invited Session, H1
AIR Discussant: Gary Phillips
April 30
Scoring 12:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Grand Ballroom C, 3rd floor Individual Session, L2
AIR Presenter: Tao Jiang & Bokhee Yoon
For more information, visit http://ncme.org/annual-meeting/.
About AIR
Established in 1946, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance both domestically and internationally in the areas of health, education, and workforce productivity. For more information, visit www.air.org.
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