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International
Conference on Computer-Based Testing and the Internet
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ITC Conference
Winchester 2002 |
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Keynote Presenters:
Keynote Discussants:
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Dave BARTRAM is Past-president of the
International Test Commission and is heading ITC projects on international
guidelines for standards in test use and standards for computer-based
testing and the Internet. He
is a member of the British Psychological Society’s Steering Committee on
Test Standards and the European Federation of Psychologists’
Associations Standing Committee on Tests and Testing.
Dave is Research Director for SHL Group plc. Prior to his
appointment with SHL in 1998, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science and
the Environment, and Professor of Psychology in the Department of
Psychology at the University of Hull. He is a Chartered Occupational
Psychologist, Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a
Fellow of the Ergonomics Society.
His specialist area is computer-based testing and Internet
assessment systems. Within SHL he is leading the development of their next
generation of Internet-based delivery systems and the development of a
multi-dimensional Competency Framework.
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Randy
Elliot BENNETT is Distinguished Presidential Appointee at Educational
Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. Dr.
Bennett began his employment at ETS in 1979.
Since the 1980's, he has conducted research on the applications of
technology to testing, on new forms of assessment, and on the assessment
of students with disabilities. Dr.
Bennett's work on the use of new technology to improve assessment has
included research on presenting and scoring open-ended test items on
computer, on using multimedia and simulation in testing, and on generating
test items automatically. Dr.
Bennett is the editor or author of seven books and many other publications
including, “Reinventing Assessment: Speculations on the Future of
Large-Scale Educational Testing” (ftp://ftp.ets.org/pub/res/reinvent.pdf)
and “How the Internet will Help Large-Scale Assessment Reinvent
Itself” (http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n5.html).
He has made presentations on these and related topics throughout
the world. Dr.
Bennett is currently co-directing the Technology Based Assessment (TBA)
Project (http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/studies/tbaproject.asp),
a series of studies designed to lay the groundwork for introducing
computerized testing to the U.S. National Assessment of Educational
Progress. The TBA project is
believed to be the first in the world to have tested a nationally
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Fritz DRASGOW
received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
He was an Assistant Professor in the School of Organization and
Management at Yale University before returning to the University of
Illinois where he is now Professor of Psychology and of Labor and
Industrial Relations. Much of
his research has focused on psychological measurement and modeling.
Computerization of assessment tools has also been an interest.
During the past decade, he has explored the use of full-motion video for
assessing interpersonal skills that are difficult to measure with written
tests. Several novel
assessments are described in his co-edited book Innovations in
Computerized Assessment. Another
book Drasgow co-edited, Measuring and Analyzing Behavior in
Organizations, has recently been published.
Fritz Drasgow has served on the American Psychological Association
Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessment and chaired the U.S.
Department of Defense’s Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Tests. He is currently co-chair of the American Psychological
Association’s Task Force on Internet Testing.
Fritz serves on the editorial boards of nine journals and is the
Director of the University of Illinois Center for Human Resource
Management.
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Ronald K. HAMBLETON
holds the title of Distinguished University Professor at the University of
Massachusetts in the United States. Professor
Hambleton is also Chairperson of the Research and Evaluation Methods
Program and Co-Director of the Center for Educational Assessment at the
University of Massachusetts. He
was President (1990 to 1994) of the International Test Commission and he
is the current President of the Measurement and Evaluation Division of the
International Association of Applied Psychology.
He also serves on the editorial boards for several measurement
journals. His current
research interests are in the areas of computer-based testing issues and
test designs, development of methods for setting standards on performance
assessments, methods and guidelines for adapting tests from one language
and culture to another, reporting of test results, and implementation
issues in large-scale assessment programs.
Professor Hambleton received the Career Achievement Award from the
National Council on Measurement in Education for his contributions to
measurement theory and practice and leadership in the measurement field in
1993. He was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University
of Umea in Sweden, and received the Chancellor's Medal from the University
of Massachusetts for distinguished scientific research contributions in
1994.
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Michael HARRIS, is Professor of
Management at the College of Business Administration, University of
Missouri-St. Louis. His area
of interest is human resource management and he has conducted research on
a variety of related topics, including interviewing, assessment centers,
performance evaluation, and compensation.
His recent research includes the examination of gender differences
in pay and pay raises, the selection of executives for cross-cultural
training, and the use of different pay standards across cultures.
He is coeditor of the “Employment Interview Handbook” (Sage
Publications), author of “Human Resource Management: A Practical
Approach” (Harcourt Press; 2nd edition), and is the columnist
for Practice Network, which appears in The Industrial-Organizational
Psychologist (TIP). He has served as an expert witness, trainer, and
consultant to many different private-sector, public-sector, and non-profit
organizations.
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Lutz F. HORNKE
received his Diploma in Psychology from Mannheim University (1972) and
his M.A. from Stanford University, USA, (1973). He earned his Ph.D.-degree
with a dissertation on “Foundations and Problems of computerised
adaptive testing” in 1975. Since 1975 he held positions at different
levels at the universities of Düsseldorf, Marburg, Mannheim, and Aachen
and was promoted to Professor in 1982. In 1986 he took over the position
of full professor and director of the Department of Industrial and
Organizational Psychology at Aachen University of Technology.
He spent several sabbaticals at American College Testing, Iowa, and
Educational Testing Service, Princeton. For three years he served on the
German Test Commission and since five years chairs the DIN 33430 Committee
on vocational assessment. In 1999 he was elected as president of the
European Association of Psychological Assessment.
His research emphasises computerized adaptive testing (CAT) as a
means to arrive at sound personnel decisions with less but on targeted
items.
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Patrick C. KYLLONEN
is the Research Center Director for the New Constructs Center at
Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J. Before joining ETS in
1999, Dr. Kyllonen received his B.A. from St. John's University (1977) and
his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1984). He held positions at the
University of Georgia (1985-1988) and the Air Force Research Laboratory
(formerly Armstrong Laboratory, and the Human Resources Laboratory) in San
Antonio, Texas (1982-1985, 1988-1999).
Dr. Kyllonen's research has focused on the
measurement of human abilities and on learning and skill acquisition. More
recently, he and New Constructs Center colleagues have been investigating
affective as well as cognitive mediators of educational success and job
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Wim van der LINDEN
holds degrees in Psychology and Mathematical Sociology from the
Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. Currently, he is Professor and
Chair of the Department of Educational Measurement and Data Analysis,
University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research interests include test
theory, computerized adaptive testing, large-scale educational
assessments, optimal test assembly, and decision theory and its
application to problems of educational decision making. His publications
have appeared in all major international journals. He is co-editor of two
recently published volumes: Handbook
of Modern Item Response Theory (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997; with
R. K. Hambleton) and Computerized
Adaptive Testing: Theory and Applications (Boston: Kluwer, 2001; with
C. A. W. Glas), and currently works on Linear
Models for Optimal Test Design and Introduction
to Test Theory and its Applications, both for Springer-Verlag. He is a
former President of the Psychometric
Society and will be a Fellow at the Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, in
2002-2003.
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Richard M. LUECHT
is a Professor and Chair of the Educational Research
Methodology Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG),
where he teaches graduate courses in applied statistics, educational
research, and measurement technologies. He is also the Director of the Center for Educational
Research and Evaluation at UNCG. Before
joining the UNCG faculty in 1999, Ric was the Project Director for
Computerized Adaptive Testing Research and Senior Psychometrician at the
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), where he helped to direct the
migration of the United States Medical Licensing STEP programs to
computerized delivery.
From 1989 to 1994, Ric was a research psychometrician with ACT,
Inc., where he conducted technical research on automated test assembly,
computer-adaptive testing, and statistical estimation issues involving
item response theory. He also worked extensively on the NAEP standard
setting project. Ric also serves as a technical consultant/advisor for various
testing organizations, including the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, Microsoft Corporation, the Medical Council of Canada,
the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Educational Testing
Service.
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Charles JOHNSON is currently Chair
of the British Psychological Society’s Steering Committee on Test
Standards, a position he has held since July 2000.
He is a Director of Competence Assurance Solutions Ltd (CAS) who he
joined in August 1998. The
work of CAS involves him in the design, development and implementation of
systems for assuring the competence of individuals, teams and
organisations working in hazardous industries, particularly in the
Railways.
Prior to joining CAS, Charles was Managing Director of
Psychometric Research & Development Ltd where he worked from 1986 to
1998. He spent the previous
four years as a Principal Psychologist in the Civil Service’s
Recruitment Research Unit, part of the Cabinet Office’s Management and
Personnel Office, where amongst other duties he was head of the Civil
Service’s Test Construction Unit. He
also worked in the National Health Service for three years doing research
into the efficacy of therapeutic regimes and the development of
psychometric tests and other assessment methods for use with patients.
Prior to that he spent two years teaching Psychology and Applied
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Donald
MELNICK
is the President of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME).
He received his MD from Loma Linda University and is a diplomate of
the NBME and the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Prior to his appointment at the NBME, Dr. Melnick was an Associate
Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology at Marshall
University School of Medicine. He
is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), American College
of Medical Informatics, and American College of Physician Executives.
He has published numerous articles on the assessment of physicians'
clinical competence. During
his tenure at the NBME, Dr. Melnick led developmental efforts for the
NBME’s two research and development activities in clinical skills
assessment, the computer-based case simulation and standardized patient
projects
Dr. Melnick served as Vice President for Evaluation Programs from
April 1991 to July 2000. As
Senior Vice President from 1987 - 2000, he directed the implementation of
the United States Medical Licensing Examinaton (USMLE), coordinated all
cross divisional USMLE issues, directed the implementation efforts for
Computer-Based Testing (CBT) and Standardized Patients, coordinated all
NBME R&D (and the Medical Education Research Fund), and conducted NBME
strategic planning. On July
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