Hosted by: Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Join us for an engaging discussion on the evolving landscape of research and program funding in the United States. This webinar, Funding in the US: Trends, Challenges, and the Future, will explore the dynamics shaping public and private grantmaking, the challenges faced by researchers and institutions, and...

This webinar is from the Scaling, Linking, and Equating SIGIMIE. Reporting scales are one of the most visible and widely used parts of a testing program. Many different criteria and methods can influence how they are designed, sometimes in competing ways. The key is to bring principles and practices together—so the scales not only support...

This event is being organized by the NCME Graduate Student Issues Committee.  Mixed and multi-method approaches are gaining momentum in psychometrics, offering innovative ways to strengthen validity, address complex measurement challenges, and promote fairness and equity. This 30–40 minute panel will feature leading scholars discussing the promise, challenges, and future of these approaches in the...

This is presented by the AIME SIGIMIE. Pretesting items in large-scale assessments requires substantial time, resources, and financial investment. Accurately predicting item difficulty before any administration can streamline pretesting, reduce costs, and provide earlier feedback to item writers, supporting targeted revisions that better align with intended difficulty. Effective difficulty prediction methods, therefore, have the potential...