COMPS Group Seminar

Seminar of the Computational Psychometrics Group features presentations by both local and visiting scholars on current research in statistical and data science methods for analyzing measurement in the social sciences. The talks are approximately 60 minutes long, followed by a discussion. Whenever possible, speakers provide practical demonstrations using real-world measurement data from education, psychology, and related disciplines. In the spring semester, the seminar is jointly held as the course Seminar in psychometrics at Charles University. The seminar is co-hosted by Patrícia Martinková and Jiří Lukavský. To participate or join the mailing list, please email martinkovaATcs.cas.cz.

Future sessions

Monday, March 31, 2025 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Rachel Heyard University of Zurich	Methodological innovations in decision-making for research funding with a focus on transparency and reproducibility
Monday, April 7, 2025 2:30 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Rudolf Debelak University of Zurich	Automatic Item Generation in Education: Current Techniques and Challenges
Monday, April 14, 2025 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Marie-Ann Sengewald LIfBi – Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories	The Importance of Latent Variables for Causal Inference
Monday, April 28, 2025 4:00 PM, on Zoom (projected to plenary room 318, ICS)	Joakim Wallmark Umeå University	IRTorch: Item Response Theory with Python
Monday, May 5, 2025 4:00 PM, on Zoom (projected to plenary room 318, ICS)	Alina von Davier Duolingo	Computational Psychometrics in Action: Calibrating & Administering New Items in a CAT
Monday, May 12, 2025 4:00 PM, on Zoom (projected to plenary room 318, ICS)	Denny Borsboom University of Amsterdam	Turning psychometrics on its head: What if our constructs were networks?

Past sessions

Thursday, December 5, 2024 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Giuseppe Mignemi Universita' Bocconi	Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Multiple Raters Data
Thursday, November 28, 2024 1:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Jun Wu ICS CAS / Technical University Munich alumnus	Identifiability in graphical models with algebraic methods
Tuesday, April 11, 2024 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Hynek Cígler Masaryk University	Researching response-scale format effects in questionnaires: Existing evidence, directions, and methodology
Tuesday, March 14, 2024 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	David Lacko Institue of psychology CAS & Masaryk University	Dynamic structural equation models
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 2:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Marie Wiberg Umeå University, Sweden	Nonparametric item response theory as an alternative to parametric item response theory
Monday, April 24, 2023 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Jiří Lukavský Institue of psychology CAS & Charles University	Use of eye tracking in taking tests.
Monday, Mar 27, 2023 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Jana Dlouhá & Lubomír Štěpánek ICS CAS, Czech republic	Data-Driven Item Difficulty Estimation in Knowledge Tests Using Text Analysis and Machine Learning
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 2:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Adéla Hladká ICS CAS, Czech Republic	DIF detection by comparing item response curves
March 13, 2023 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Carolin Strobl Univesity of Zurich, Switzerland	The "Botanical Garden" of Machine Learning - Understanding the Ideas behind Decision Trees and Random Forests
Feb 27, 2023 4:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	Yves Rosseel Ghent University, Belgium	Old and new approaches for including interaction and quadratic terms in structural equation modeling
Dec 20, 2022 3:00 PM, plenary room 318, ICS	David Kaplan University of Wisconsin – Madison	Probabilistic Forecasting with International Large-Scale Assessments: Applications to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Sep 27, 2022	Gabriel Wallin London School of Economics and Political Science	A Flexible IRT Framework For Latent DIF Detection
May 10, 2022	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
May 3, 2022	Yves Rosseel Ghent University	The structural-after-measurement (SAM) approach to structural equation modeling
Apr 19, 2022	David Magis IQVIA Belux	Computerized adaptive and multistage testing. overview, challenges and applications
Mar 31, 2022	Michela Battauz University of Udine	Equating and DIF detection in the IRT framework
Mar 8, 2022	Dakota Cintron UC San Francisco	A Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model of Action Patterns
Jan 27, 2022	Ai Ye UNC Chapel Hill	Path and Directionality Discovery in Individual Dynamic Models: A Regularized Structural Equation Modeling Approach
May 11, 2021	Ed Merkle University of Missouri	Recent progress on Bayesian structural equation models
May 4, 2021	Jiří Lukavský Institue of psychology CAS & Charles University	Bayesian psychometrics.
Apr 27, 2021	Gabriel Wallin Université Côte d'Azur & Inria	Equating nonequivalent test groups using propensity scores
Apr 20, 2021	Marie Wiberg University of Umea	How to evaluate different equating methods
Apr 13, 2021	Michela Battauz University of Udine	Item Response Theory Equating Methods for Multiple Forms
Mar 30, 2021	František Bartoš University of Amsterdam & ICS CAS	Robust Bayesian meta-analysis: A framework for addressing publication bias with model-averaging
Mar 23, 2021	Hynek Cígler Masaryk University	Reliability models in classical test and latent trait theories
Mar 16, 2021	Patrícia Martinková ICS CAS & Charles University	Computational aspects of reliability estimation

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