Fourth Spearman Conference Presentations available

FYI - The Fourth Spearman Conference (“Diagnostics for Education: Theory, Measurement, Applications,”) was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on October 20-23, 2004.

By clicking here blogsters can visit a page and click and view/download the presentations "as is." Below is a list of the presenations for which material has been posted.

• Aldrich, Clark, Educational Simulations - Simulation; Games; and Pedagogy
• Flanagan, Dawn P., The Role of IQ Tests in LD Identification
• Graesser, Ozuru, Rowe and Floyd, Enhancing the Landscape and Quality of Multiple Choice Questions
• Graf, Steffen, Peterson, Saldivia and Wang, Designing and Revising Quantitative Item Models
• Hunt, Earl, Patterns of Thought
• Matthews, Gerald, Picking a Bone with Spearman: A Contrary View of Mental Energy and Attention
• Misley, Robert J., Cognitive Diagnosis as Evidentiary Argument
• Pennebaker, James W., What Our Words Say About Us
• Sabatini, John, Critical Issues in Aligning Psychometrics with Current Reading Models
• Stout, William, The Reparameterized Unified Model Skills Diagnostic System
• Swanson, H. Lee, Memory and Learning Disabilities: Historical Perspective and Current Status
• van der Linden, Wim J., Statistical Models for Diagnosis: A Discussion
• VanLehn, Kurt, The Andes Intelligent Tutoring System: Lessons Learned about Assessment
• von Davier, Mattias and Yamamoto, Kentaro, A Class of Models for Cognitive Diagnosis
• Wiliam, Dylan, From Diagnosis to Action: Toward Instructionally Tractable Assessment
• Wilson, Mark, Cognitive Diagnosis using Explanatory Item Response Models
• Wittmann, Werner W., Brunswik-Symmetry: A Key Concept for Successful Assessment in Education and Elsewhere