Mislevy to give talk April 8

19 Mar 2013    

Robert Mislevy, Educational Testing Service, will present his talk, "Some Conceptions about Evidence-Centered Assessment Design" April 8, 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The talk will be held in room 139 Teachers College Hall. A reception will follow the talk in the Buros Library.

Each year the lecture series brings a senior research scientist from Educational Testing Service to the UNL campus to speak on current assessment and testing issues. Mislevy's presentation focuses on evidence-centered assessment design, a framework for designing and modeling educational assessments that was introduced in a series of publications by Mislevy, Linda Steinberg, and Russell Almond in the late 1990s. The first part of this talk gives an overview of ECD. It focuses on the concepts of assessment as evidentiary argument and layers in assessment. The second part addresses a number of common misconceptions that have developed concerning ECD.

Robert Mislevy is the Frederic M. Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics at ETS.  He was previously Professor of Measurement and Statistics at the University of Maryland and Affiliate Professor of Survey Methods and of Second Language Acquisition. He has received AERA’s Lindquist award for career contributions, TOEFL’s Samuel J. Messick Memorial Lecture Award, and NCME’s Career Contributions Award and Award for Technical Contributions. He is a past-president of the Psychometric Society and a member of the National Academy of Education