IOMW
Tuesday, April 10, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Opening Plenary Session
Introductory Remarks
Andrew Maul, University of California, Santa Barbara
Measuring the Health Needs of Young Adults with Mental Illness & Substance Use Disorders using a applied mixed-methods approach to improve clinical practice
Skye Barbic, University of British Columbia
Steve Mathias, University of British Columbia
Applying the Mixture Rasch Model to the Middle Grades Self-Efficacy to Teach Statistics (SETS-MS) Instrument
Leigh M. Harrell-Williams, University of Memphis
Jennifer N. Lovett, Middle Tennessee State University
M. Alejandra Sorto, Texas State University
Rebecca L. Pierce, Ball State University
Lawrence M. Lesser, The University of Texas at El Paso
Teri J. Murphy, University of Cincinnati
Measuring Reading Strategy Use in a Multidimensional, Multilingual Context
Daniel Katz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthony Clairmont, University of California, Santa Barbara
Diana Arya, University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrew Maul, University of California, Santa Barbara
Constructs Behind the College Information Level of High School Students: The Chilean Case
Maria Veronica Santelices, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ximena Catalán, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Magdalena Zarhi, Universidad Diego Portales
Paulina Perez, Reston, Virginia
Item Difficulty Modeling of Reading Comprehension Items Using the Rasch Latent Regression Linear Logistic Test Models
Yukie Toyama, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Guttman Errors for Raters: Exploring Rater Fit using adjacent-categories Mokken Scale Analysis
Stefanie A. Wind, The University of Alabama
Tuesday, April 10, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, Poster Session
Poster Session
Using the MIMIC method with iterative process to assess DIF with collected nuisance grouping variables
Chen, Chi-Chen, Institute of Education, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Hsiu-Yi Chao, Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University
Jyun-Hong Chen, Office of Institutional Research, National Sun Yat-sen University
Ratings, Latent Traits, and Evaluations of Pedagogical Intervention: An Application of the Many-Facet Rasch Measurement Model
T. Ryan Duckett, University of Toledo, Judith Herb College of Education
Gale A. Mentzer, Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC
Svetlana Beltyukova, University of Toledo, Judith Herb College of Education
Graphical Methods for Validating Survey Instruments
P. Cristian Gugiu, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University
Digital Competence: investigations of the alignment between the conceptual perspectives and the empirical data
Fazilat Siddiq, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
Perman Gochyyev, University of California, Berkeley
Using Scaffolds to Measure Optimal Performance in Preschool Literacy
Julia Volkman, Harvard University Extension School
Creating measurements of teachers' experiences
Emily Winchip, University of Nottingham
Examining Differential Item Functioning Related to SES in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Form A
Süreyya Yörük, Marmara University
Tuesday, April 10, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Symposium A1
Rasch in International Development
Measuring Genuine Progress By Scaling Economic Indicators to Think Global / Act Local
William P. Fisher, Jr., BEAR Center, University of California, Berkeley
Using Rasch Analysis to Create an Index of Socio-economic Status (SES) for Use in Low and Middle Income Countries: An Example From Indonesia
Nancy E. Mayo, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center
Susan C. Scott, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center
Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University; SHERPA University Institute, CIUSSS du centre-ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal
Changes in Child Nutrition in Liberian Counties, 2007–2013: A Rasch Analysis
R. Jerome Anderson, ORISE Fellow, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Examining differential item functioning in the Household Food Insecurity Scale: Does participation in SNAP affect measurement invariance?
Victoria Tanaka, The University of Georgia
George Engelhard, Jr., The University of Georgia
Matthew P. Rabbitt, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Tuesday, April 10, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Paper Session A2
Facet Models for Raters
Creating and Visualizing Incomplete Rating Designs intended for Many-Facet Rasch Model Analysis
Mary R. McEwen, Brigham Young University
Richard R. Sudweeks, Brigham Young University
The Effects of Incomplete Rating Designs on Results from Many-Facet-Rasch Model Analyses
Mary R. McEwen, Brigham Young University
Richard R. Sudweeks, Brigham Young University
Using a Simple Two-Facet Rasch Model to find Hawks and Doves in a One-Examiner OSCE Setting
Karen Coetzee, Touchstone Institute
Sandra Monteiro, McMaster University
Debra Sibbald, Touchstone Institute
Exploring the Psychometric Properties of the Mind Map Scoring Rubric Using the Many-Facet Rasch Model
Hua Cheng, The University of Alabama
Tuesday, April 10, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Paper Session A3
Fresh Perspectives on the Rasch Model
Metrology for the Social Sciences: A case for Rasch Measurement Theory (not Rasch Analysis)
Stefan J. Cano, Modus Outcomes
Leslie R. Pendrill, RI.SE
Jeanette Melin, RI.SE
Theresa Köbe, Department of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin
William P. Fisher, Jr., BEAR Center, University of California, Berkeley
A. Jackson Stenner, MetaMetrics, Inc. and The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Rasch versus Lord: two paradigms to understand the Rasch model
Ernesto San Martín, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
The Gaussian as a special case of the Rasch measurement distribution in which the role of the instrument is explicit
David Andrich, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia
Two educational measurements with units analogous to those in the natural sciences
David Andrich, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia
Tuesday, April 10, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM, Paper Session B1
Models and Reality
Measurement across the sciences: Objectivity
Andrew Maul, University of California, Santa Barbara
Measurement across the sciences: Intersubjectivity
Mark Wilson, BEAR Center, University of California, Berkeley
The Rasch paradigm, model to reality thinking, and mechanical objectivity
Joshua McGrane, Oxford University
Realism, measurement, and the latent variable model in psychometric research
Trisha Nowland, Macquarie University
Tuesday, April 10, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM, Paper Session B2
Longitudinal Measurement of Health and Well-Being Using Polytomous Rasch Models
A Rasch Analysis of The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in Notre Dame Health & Well-Being Data Across Ten Years.
Laura E. Baird, University of Virginia
Karen M. Schmidt, University of Virginia
Cindy S. Bergeman, University of Notre Dame
You Know What They Say About When You Assume: Assessing the Robustness of Invariant Comparisons in Longitudinal CES-D Responses
Austin T. Boyd, University of Virginia
Karen M. Schmidt, University of Virginia
Cindy S. Bergeman, University of Notre Dame
A Comparison of Longitudinal Rasch Anchoring Methods Utilizing the Geriatric Depression Scale
Tara L. Valladares, University of Virginia
Karen M. Schmidt, University of Virginia
Cindy S. Bergeman, University of Notre Dame
Discovering Subscales of The Perceived Stress Scale and Longitudinal Anchoring Using Rasch Models
Leah S. Brady, University of Virginia
Gustav R. Sjobeck, University of Virginia
Lily Zamanali, University of Virginia
Karen M. Schmidt, University of Virginia
Cindy S. Bergeman, University of Notre Dame
Analyzing the Stability of Perceived Control in Older Adults Over Five Years using Polytomous Rasch Models
Lily Zamanali, University of Virginia
Chelsea N. Dickens, Pennsylvania State University
Karen M. Schmidt, University of Virginia
Cindy S. Bergeman, University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, April 10, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM, Paper Session B3
Surveys in the Schools
Measuring Teachers’ Enactment of Practice for Equity: A Rasch Model and Facet Theory-based Approach
Wen-Chia C. Chang, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Larry H. Ludlow, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Lexie Grudnoff, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland
Fiona Ell, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland
Mavis Haigh, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland
Mary Hill, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland
Construct Refinement and Item Development: A Journey Guided by the Rasch Partial Credit Model
Amanda E. Ferster, University of Georgia
A. Adrienne Walker, Gwinnett County Public Schools
Validating a Rasch-based instrument to measure school climate large-scale. Can it meaningfully and reliably differentiate schools when policy and practical considerations impacted best practice?
Shelagh Peoples, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
The Effect of a Science Enrichment Program in an Under-resourced School: Changes in Attitudes and Scores
R. Jerome Anderson, ORISE Fellow, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Wednesday, April 11, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Invited Speaker
An Urgent Educational-Assessment Question and a Proposed Answer
Robert J. Mislevy, ETS
Suppose we hold a situative, sociocognitive perspective of the nature of human capabilities and how they develop. Suppose we also think that the practices, the concepts, and the modeling tools of educational measurement, which evolved under trait and behavioral perspectives, can nevertheless hold value for practical work in educational assessment. How might we conceive of educational measurement models such that both our interpretations and uses of them are consistent with the sociocognitive perspective?
I propose an articulation through a sociocognitively-framed, argument-structured, constructivist-realist, subjectivist-Bayesian variant of latent-variable measurement modeling. The presentation will parse this admittedly unwieldy phrase. I call particular attention to implications for the interpretation of latent variables, probabilities, validity, and measurement.
Wednesday, April 11, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Paper Session C1
Psychological and Social Measurement: The Career and Contributions of Benjamin D. Wright
Cogitations on invariant measurement: A memo to Ben Wright on the perspectives of Rasch and Guttman
George Engelhard, Jr., University of Georgia
Ben Wright: Quotable and quote-provoking
Stefanie Wind, The University of Alabama
The value of subjectivity in sorting out competing claims about what matters in measurement
William P. Fisher, Jr., BEAR Center, University of California, Berkeley
Things I learned from Ben
Mark Wilson, BEAR Center, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, April 11, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Paper Session C2
Health Outcomes
A Mixed Methods Psychometrics Framework to Reduce the Uncertainty in the Measurement of Patient-Centered Outcomes
Antoine Regnault, Modus Outcomes, Lyon, France
Sophie Cleanthous, Modus Outcomes, Letchworth Garden City, UK
Jessica T Markowitz, Modus Outcomes, Cambridge, USA
Patrick Marquis, Modus Outcomes, Cambridge, USA
Stefan J Cano, Modus Outcomes, Letchworth Garden City, UK
Using the Rasch Model to Evaluate the Family Support for Exercise Survey for Bariatric Surgery Patients
Jennifer Cotto, Human Sciences, The Ohio State University
Keely J. Pratt, Human Sciences, The Ohio State University
Oral health related quality of life in children and adolescents assessed with the German Version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ11-14): can our self-reported instruments be more targeted?
Maisa Omara, Section for Outcomes Research, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna
Tanja Stamm, Section for Outcomes Research, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna
Maren Boecker, RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology
Valentin Ritschl, Section for Outcomes Research, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna
Erika Mosor, Section for Outcomes Research, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna
Thomas Salzberger, Institute for Statistics and Mathematics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Christian Hirsch, Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Department of Head Medicine and Oral Health, University of Leipzig
Katrin Bekes, Department of Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna
How is functional impairment linked to measurement of mental health symptoms among adolescents – A gender perspective
Curt Hagquist, Karlstad University, Centre for Research on Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Wednesday, April 11, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Paper Session C3
Polytomous Models
Does the threshold distribution in polytomous items matter in computer adaptive testing?
Thomas Salzberger, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for Statistics and Mathematics
Mike Horton, University of Leeds, Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine
The Method of Successive Dichotomization: a new approach towards estimating polytomous Rasch model parameters
Chris Bradley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Robert W. Massof, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Evaluation of person and item fit of simulated rating scale data to polytomous Rasch models
Robert W. Massof, Johns Hopkins University
Chris Bradley, Johns Hopkins University
Polytomous Item Explanatory IRT Models with Random Item Effects
Jinho Kim, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Wilson, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, April 11, 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM, Paper Session D1
Validity and Fairness
To validate or not to validate the internal structure of connectedness, empowerment, and meaning scales: The meaning and results of a multi-dimensional item response model study
Brent Duckor, San Jose State University
Joshua Sussman, University of California, Berkeley
Jason Sellars, University of California, Berkeley
Increasing Test Validity by Examining for Cross-Cultural Differential Item Functioning (DIF)
Xian Wu, University of Kentucky
Rongxiu Wu, University of Kentucky
Michael Peabody, American Board of Family Medicine
Thomas O'Neill, American Board of Family Medicine
Differential Item Functioning (DIF) for special education populations in the Desired Results Developmental Profile Assessment: The impact of DIF and what we can (and should) do about it.
Joshua Sussman, University of California, Berkeley
Examining the Consequential Validity of the edTPA: Perspectives of Preservice Teachers
Nadia Behizadeh, Georgia State University
Adrian Neely, Georgia State University
Wednesday, April 11, 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM, Symposium D2
Raters and Fit
Addressing Scoring Challenges in a New Era of Integrated Writing Assessments
Kevin Raczynski, The University of Georgia
Jue Wang, The University of Georgia
George Engelhard, Jr., The University of Georgia
Allan Cohen, The University of Georgia
Using Unfolding Models to Evaluate Ratings in Rater-Mediated Assessments
Jue Wang, The University of Georgia
George Engelhard, Jr., The University of Georgia
Exploring the correspondence between traditional score resolution methods and person fit indices in rater-mediated writing assessments
Stefanie A. Wind, The University of Alabama
A. Adrienne Walker, Gwinnett County Public Schools
Investigating Person Fit using Empirical Confidence Bands
Jeremy Kyle Jennings, National Board of Examiners in Optometry
George Engelhard, Jr., University of Georgia
Wednesday, April 11, 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM, Paper Session D3
Meta-science
Motivations of invalid responses: Consequences for Validity
Anthony Clairmont, University of California, Santa Barbara
Melissa Gordon Wolf, University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrew Maul, University of California, Santa Barbara
Do Many Psychological Studies Fail to be Replicated Because of Too Few Items?: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study
Jinho Kim, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Weeraphat Suksiri, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Shruti Bathia, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
James M Mason, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Wilson, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Instrument validation in the absense of traditional constructs
Melissa Gordon Wolf, University of California, Santa Barbara
How to construct concepts in psychology? A proposal inspired in Spearman (1904)
Trinidad González, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ernesto San Martín, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Wednesday, April 11, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM, Paper Session E1
Multidimensionality
Derived measures model for obtaining composite and dimension scores.
Perman Gochyyev, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Wilson, University of California, Berkeley
Application of the Multidimensional Random Coefficients Multinomial Logit Model into Online Testing
Daeryong Seo, Pearson
Se-Kang Kim, Fordham University
Toward an Objectivity Statistic
Mark H. Moulton, Educational Data Systems
Wednesday, April 11, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM, Paper Session E2
Growth
Demonstrating the equivalence of sequential and simultaneous equating of a large-scale vertically equated test
Ida Marais, The University of Western Australia
David Andrich, The University of Western Australia
Evaluating item fit in the presence of learning
Ben Stenhaug, Stanford University
Ben Domingue, Stanford University
Visualizing Location and Growth: Design Principles for Person-Item Maps
Derek Briggs, University of Colorado Boulder
Wednesday, April 11, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM, Paper Session E3
Psychometric Issues
Disentangling guessing from discrimination in multiple choice items using the Rasch measurement model
Sonia Sappl, The University of Western Australia
David Andrich, The University of Western Australia
Equivalence of two methods for equating scores between two tests using the Rasch measurement model
Dragana Surla, Department of Education
David Andrich, The University of Western Australia
Discontinuous Levels of Complexity in Measurement Information Infrastructures: Separating the Distinct Roles of KidMaps, Wright Maps, and Construct Maps
William P. Fisher, Jr., BEAR Center, University of California, Berkeley
A. Jackson Stenner, MetaMetrics, Inc.
Wednesday, April 11, 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Conference Concluding Session
Thursday, April 12, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Data and Software Workshops
9:00AM – 12:00PM Overview and Review of Software
RUMM — David Andrich
Winsteps — Stefanie Wind
Facets — Richard Sudweeks
ConQuest — Rebecca Freund
Openbugs — Hong Jiao
jMetrik — Patrick Meyer
Damon on Python — Mark Mouton
12:00PM – 1:00 PM Panel on Measurement and Big Data
1:00PM – 2:30PM Workshop Session 1
RUMM Room TBA
Winsteps Room TBA
jMetrik Room TBA
2:30PM – 4:00PM Workshop Session 2
Facets Room TBA
ConQuest Room TBA
Openbugs Room TBA