Presentations - University of Maryland

Downloadable Presentations

Leverage Points: "Leverage points for improving educational assessment." Presented at the Technology Design Workshop sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, held at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA, February 25-26, 2000. [pdf format]
Challenge of Context: "The challenge of context." Plenary address at the 2000 CRESST conference, Los Angeles, CA, September 2000. [pdf format]
Assessment Change: "What is assessment really about, and how must it change?" Featured presentation at the Future of Education conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 25-26, 2000. [pdf format]
ECD-intro: Overheads of introduction to the basic models of evidence-centered assessment design [pdf format]
4 Process Overview: A brief overview of the four-process model for assessment delivery systems [pdf format]
MarketBasket Presentation: Prepared for NAS Conference on marketbasket reporting in Washington D.C., February 6-7, 2000. [pdf format]
MCMC estimation: "Modeling conditional probabilities in a complex assessment." An application of Bayesian modeling in a computer-based performance assessment. Presented at the conference Cognition and Assessment: Theory to Practice, August 14-15, at the University of Maryland. [pdf format]
ECD-as-KR: Comments on evidence-centered assessment design as knowledge acquisition and representation. March, 2003. [Powerpoint, 13 pages]
Some Observations on Cog Psych and Assessment: Keynote address at the 24th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences SMABS meeting, at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. [pdf format]
Cognitive diagnosis as evidentiary argument.: Presented at the Fourth Spearman Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 21-23, 2004.
Making sense of data from complex assessments.: Invited address at the Florida Educational Research Association, November 6, 2001, Marco Island, FL.
Argument Substance and Argument Structurein Educational Assessment.: Presented at Conference on Inference, Culture, and Ordinary Thinking in Dispute Resolution, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, New York, April 27-29, 2003.
Some implications of expertise research for educational assessment.: Presented at the Conference on "Expertise” and the "Measurement Of
Competences," Fribourg University, Fribourg, Switzerland, July 6, 2005.
Prospectus for the PADI design framework in language testing (with Geneva Haertel).: Presented at ECOLT 2006, the Six Annual Meeting of the East Coast Organization of Language Testers, October 13, 2006, Washington, D.C.
Thoughts on the "Cognitive Psychology and Educational Assessment" chapter: in the Educational Measurement (4th Ed.) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National council of Measurement in Education, April 10-12, 2007, Chicago, IL.
Implications of Evidence-Centered Design for Educational Testing: Lessons from the PADI Project (with Geneva Haertel): Presented in the session "Assessment Engineering: An Emerging Discipline" at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL, April 10-12, 2007.
Toward a test theory for an interactionalist era: Samuel J. Messick Memorial Lecture. Presented at the Language Testing Research Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain, June 9, 2007.

A Taxonomy of Adaptive Testing (with Roy Levy and John Behrens): Plenary presentation at the Fifth annual Conference on Technology for Second Language Learning, Iowa State University, Ames IA, September 22, 2007.
Some Terminology and Concepts for Simulation-Based Assessment (with John Behrens and Dennis Frezzo).: Presented at the Lindquist Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, September 19, 2007.

Added September 13, 2009:
Some Remarks on Quantitative vs. Qualitative Reasoning in Educational Research: Presented at the Interactive Symposium Session “Generalizing From Educational Research: Beyond the Quantitative–Qualitative Opposition ” at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, March 25, 2008.
A Bayesian Perspective on Structured Mixtures of IRT Models (with Roy Levy, Marc Kroopnick, and Daisy Wise Rutstein): Presented at the Conference “Mixture Models in Latent Variable Research,” May 18-19, 2006, Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research, University of Maryland.
Some Implications of Expertise Research for Educational Assessment: Keynote address at the 34th International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) Conference, Cambridge University, September 8, 2008.
If Language is a Complex Adaptive System, What is Language Assessment? (with Chengbin Yin): Presented at “Language as a Complex Adaptive System”, an invited conference celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Language Learning, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, November 7-9, 2008.
Validity from the Perspective of Model-Based Reasoning: Presented at the conference “The Concept of Validity: Revisions, New Directions and Applications,” University of Maryland, College Park, MD October 9-10, 2008.