Goals of the Conference

To celebrate the initiation of their new program in Quantitative Psychology, the School of Psychology will host an international conference on "New Directions on Psychology Measurement wit Model-Based Approaches". The purpose of this conference is to examine the potential of model-based measurement techniques to broaden the type of psychological constructs that can be rigorously quantified. Model-based approaches include a wide array of item response theory methods, as well as latent class and more general non-linear mixed models.

These models are useful for measuring complex constructs in cognition, personality, emotions, social interactions and attitudes. Relevant assessments may involve naturalistic observations, performance evaluations, constructed responses or standard objectives test items. Measurement goals may be to locate individuals on one or more dimensions, to make a cognitive diagnosis, to assess qualitative differences between persons, to automatically generate items or to isolate entangled constructs.