Seminar in psychometrics
This seminar covers computational aspects of psychometrics. It features local and visiting scholars who are invited to present current psychometric research. Talks are complemented by practical demonstrations in R, using educational, psychological and other behavioral data. Seminar can be taken repeatedly.Taught as a course NMST571 at Charles University. Enroll in SIS and Moodle.
Jointly held as the seminar of the COMputational PSychometrics group at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences and of CEMP. Seminar is co-hosted by Jiří Lukavský.
Webpage of a related course Selected topics in psychometrics
Previous years: 2019, 2020, 2021
News
| Dec 27, 2021 | Hybrid form is expected, link for the ZOOM sessions will be sent to registered students and other participants via e-mail on February 15, 2022. If you want to participate as a guest, please send me an e-mail. |
| Jan 12, 2022 | Google form for questions is available at this link. |
Tentative course schedule 2022
Seminar is planned on Tuesdays, 3:40 - 5:10 PM CET, room K4, Sokolovská 83, Praha 8 - Karlín. Invited talks are approximatelly 60 minutes long, followed by a discussion.
| Feb 15 | Welcome message by e-mail (no meeting) | |
| Feb 22 | Seminar meeting: Introduction | Slides |
| Feb 22 | Seminar meeting: Introduction | Slides Code |
| March 1 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| March 8 | Invited talk: Dakota Cintron (UC San Francisco): A Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model of Action Patterns | Abstract Video |
| March 15 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | |
| March 22 | Seminar meeting | Data |
| Th March 31 (2:30pm) | Invited talk: Michela Battauz (University of Udine): Equating and DIF detection in the IRT framework | Abstract Video Reading 1, 2 Slides Code |
| April 5 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | |
| April 12 | Seminar meeting | |
| April 19 | Invited talk: David Magis (IQVIA Belux): Computerized adaptive and multistage testing: overview, challenges and applications | Abstract Video Reading 1, 2 Slides Code |
| April 26 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | |
| May 3 | Invited talk: Yves Rosseel (Ghent University): The structural-after-measurement (SAM) approach to structural equation modeling | Abstract Reading 1, 2, 3 Slides Code |
| May 10 | Invited talk: Irini Moustaki (London School of Economics and Political Science): Detection of two-way outliers in multivariate data and application to cheating detection in educational tests | Abstract Reading 1 |
| May 17 | Seminar meeting: Closing |
Course credit requirements
The credit will be awarded to the student who is actively present and who hands in feedback by the prescribed deadline.
Course texts
Computational aspects of psychometric methods. With R. (Book in preparation)
Manuscripts related to invited talks.