COMputational PSychometrics Group
The COMputational PSychometrics (COMPS) group is hosted by the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. We are part of Department of Statistical Modelling. We develop ShinyItemAnalysis and other psychometric software.
We have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Computer Science!
Denny Borsboom presented at COMPS seminar
Our new paper was published
in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics!
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We organize a half day short course for the IMPS 2025 conference on
the development of interactive shiny modules
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
We organize a full day workshop for EAM 2025 conference on
the modelling responses in multi-item measurements
with R and shiny
Register here!
This is is us!
Photo from Karlštejn trip
News
- Research positions available, see Openings.
- COMPS group was the local organizer for IMPS 2024.
- A book Computational Aspects of Psychometric Methods. With R published at CRC Press
- Check our new manuscripts.
- Jun Wu received MSCA-CZ grant (2025-27), congratulations!
- Jan Netík received GAUK grant (2025-27) from Charles University, congratulations!
- Michaela Cichrová and Michaela Vařejková received GAUK grant (2024-26) from Charles University, congratulations!
- COMPS group collaborates on a new OP JAK project DigiWELL, co-financed by the European Union for period 2024—2028
- EduCoDe project funded by the Czech Science Foundation for period 2025—2027!
Our current research
focuses on computational aspects of the following areas of psychometrics:
- Reliability, variance component models
- Latent variable models
- Differential item functioning
- Computerized adaptive testing
- Text mining and NLP for prediction of item difficulty
- Meta-analyses
Our software
offers implementations of our research. We develop the following R packages:
Our research involves simulation studies demonstrating efficacy of proposed algorithms in comparison with existing methods.