Seminar in psychometrics
This seminar explores statistical and data science methods for analyzing measurement in the social sciences. It features presentations from both local and visiting scholars, highlighting current research in the field. Sessions include practical demonstrations—primarily in R—using real-world measurement data from education, psychology, and related disciplines.Taught as a course NMST571 and as a course OPDQ1P126B at Charles University.
Jointly held as the COMPS group seminar at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Seminar is co-hosted by Jun Wu.
Webpage of a related course: Statistical Methods in Psychometrics
Previous seminar years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
News
| Jan 28, 2026 | If you want to participate as a guest, please send me an e-mail. Hybrid form is expected, link for the ZOOM sessions will be sent to enrolled students and registered participants via e-mail. |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Google form for questions is available at this link. |
Tentative course schedule 2026
In-person meetings are planned on Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:30 PM CET, in plenary room 318, ICS CAS, Pod Vodárenskou věží 2, Praha 8.
Invited talks are approximatelly 60 minutes long, followed by a discussion.
| Feb 19 | Welcome message (no meeting) | |
| Feb 26 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | |
| Mar 5 (ICS CAS) | Seminar meeting - Introduction | |
| Mar 12 (ICS CAS) | Invited talk: Camilo Cardenas Hurtado (LSE): A Generalized Additive Partial-Mastery Cognitive Diagnosis Model. | Abstract |
| March 20 (10am Národní) | Invited talk: Alina von Davier (Duolingo) | Abstract |
| March 26 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | |
| April 2 (Zoom) | Iván Pérez | Abstract |
| April 9 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | |
| Apr 16 (Zoom) | Jun Wu | Abstract |
| April 23 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | |
| Apr 30 (Zoom) | Michaela Cichrová, Adéla Hladká | |
| May 7 | Reading assigned (no meeting) | |
| May 14 (ICS CAS) | Jan Netík, Michaela Vařejková Seminar 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. For exam under the course OPDQ1P126B, students are required to hand in and/or present project/topic of their preference.
Course texts
Martinková P, & Hladká A. (2023). Computational Aspects of Psychometric Methods: With R. Chapman and Hall/CRC. doi: 10.1201/9781003054313
Manuscripts related to invited talks.