ETS at AERA/NCME, April 15, 2012 Afternoon

Below is a list of ETS-led presentations and professional development courses scheduled to take place on Sunday afternoon, April 15, 2012.

Automated Scoring in Professions…Now and Beyond

NCME — Symposium
When: Sunday, April 15, 12:25–1:55 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Hyatt Regency / Floor Plaza Level — Plaza C

Automated Scoring in Large-Scale Teaching Quality Assessment
Presenter/Author: Jilliam Nadine Joe (ETS)  

CAT: Item Pool Usage and Exposure Control

NCME — Paper Session
When: Sunday, April 15, 12:25–1:55 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Hyatt Regency / Floor Plaza Level — Plaza A

A Modified a-stratified Method for Computerized Adaptive Testing
Presenters/Authors: Lixiong Gu (ETS), Guangming Ling (ETS) and Yanxuan Qu (ETS) 

Diverse Topics in Psychometrics and Educational Measurement

AERA — Poster Session
When: Sunday, April 15, 12:25–1:55 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Vancouver Convention Center / Floor First Level — East Ballroom B

Exploring Teachers’ Understanding of Graphical Representations of Group Performance
Presenters/Authors: Diego Zapata-Rivera (ETS), Waverely VanWinkle (ETS) and Margaret Vezzu (ETS)

Methodological Issues in Evaluating Higher Education Outcomes

AERA — Paper Session
When: Sunday, April 15, 12:25–1:55 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Marriott Pinnacle / Floor Third Level — Dundarave

Achievement Trend and Growth in Higher Education: An Investigation of Gender, Ethnic Differences, and School Effects
Presenters/Authors: Zhen Wang (ETS), Rochelle S. Michel (ETS), Weiling Addy Deng (ETS)

Reading/Writing Strategies: Supporting Intertextuality in 21st-Century Literacy

AERA — Symposium
When: Sunday, April 15, 12:25–1:55 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Sheraton Wall Centre / Floor Grand Ballroom Level — North Grand Ballroom A

Connections Between Specific Reading and Writing Tasks in an Integrated System of Assessment
Presenters/Authors: John P. Sabatini (ETS), Paul Deane (ETS), Peter Van Rijn (ETS) and Tenaha P. O’Reilly (ETS)

Exploiting Automated Scoring and Feedback to Support Effective Reading/Writing
Presenter/Author: Paul Deane (ETS)

Response Time Modeling

NCME — Paper Session
When: Sunday, April 15, 12:25–1:55 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Hyatt Regency / Floor Convention Level — Oxford

An Investigation of Response Time in a NAEP Computer-based Assessment
Presenters/Authors: Yi-Hsuan Lee (ETS) and Yue (Helena) Jia (ETS)

Issues in Computerized Adaptive, Computer-Based, and Tailored Testing

AERA — Paper Session
When: Sunday, April 15, 2:15–3:45 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Marriott Pinnacle / Floor Third Level — Pinnacle II

New Conditional Item Selection Procedures for an Adaptive Test Based on the Testlet Response Theory Model
Presenters/Authors: Tsung-Han Ho (ETS) and Zhan Shu (ETS)

Subdimensions and Subscores

NCME—Paper Session
When: Sunday, April 15, 2:15–3:45 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Hyatt Regency / Floor Plaza Level — Georgia A

A Review of Subscore Reporting Approaches
Presenters/Authors: Jianbin Fu (ETS), Yanxuan Qu (ETS)

Reading for Understanding

NCME — Demonstration/Performance
When: Sunday, April 15, 4:05–6:05 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Hyatt Regency / Floor Convention Level — Regency EF

Global Integrated Student Assessment: Summative Measures of Reading for Understanding
Presenter: Tenaha P. O’Reilly (ETS)

Gathering and Evaluating Evidence for Theory-based Assessment Designs of Reading for Understanding: Eye Tracking and Other Innovative Techniques
Presenter: John P. Sabatini (ETS)

Automated Text Processing: Readability Measurement for Assessment and Instruction

NCME  — Symposium
When: Sunday, April 15, 4:05–6:05 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Plaza Ballroom A, J1

Helping Teachers and Test Developers Determine the Difficulty of Text for Instruction and Assessment
Presenters/Authors: Kathleen Sheehan (ETS) and Irene Kostin (ETS)

DIF Detection: Technical Advances

NCME — Paper Session
When: Sunday, April 15, 4:05–6:05 p.m. Pacific Time
Where: Plaza Ballroom B, J2

Comparing DIF detection for multidimensional polytomous models using MG-CFA and MGRM-DFIT
Presenters/Authors: Priya Kannan (ETS), Kevin Kim (University of Pittsburgh)