News & Updates
IMPS 2023 Registration Now Open!
The Psychometric Society is pleased to announce that you are now able to register for IMPS 2023.
Join the Psychometric Society in person at the University of Maryland, College Park, for its 88th Annual Meeting. The meeting will feature all of the keynote speakers, symposia, oral sessions, poster presentations, and networking events that the IMPS community has come to know and love.
Congratulations to 2023 Award Winners!
Winners of the Career Award, Early Career Award, and Dissertation Prize were recently announced
The 2023 winners are listed below. Histories and photos of all previous award winners can be found via links on the Awards page or the links at the top and right of this post.
New ARCS Editor for Psychometrika
Nidhi Kohli is the new Application Reviews and Case Studies (ARCS) editor for Psychometrika. Please see the following link for more information about the Psychometrika Editorial Council.
IMPS 2023 Abstract Submission Now Open!
Submission Deadline: February 27, 2023
The Psychometric Society Invites You to Submit an Abstract for IMPS 2023!
The IMPS 2023 Annual Meeting is scheduled to be an in-person meeting. The meeting will feature the keynote speakers, symposia, individual oral sessions, poster presentations, and networking events that the IMPS community has come to know and love.
The ExOrdo submission portal is now open, and all abstract submissions will occur through the weblink: https://imps2023.exordo.com/login
2022 Election Results
Results of governance elections are in.
Congratulations to all!
- President: Denny Borsboom (President: 2024-2025)
- Secretary: Ying (Alison) Cheng (2023-2026)
- Board of Trustees: Silivia Cognone (2023-2026) and Peter Halpin (2023-2026)
- Editorial Council: Kenneth Bollen (2023-2030)
Since some positions will become vacant due to election results, runner-up will fill empty positions as follows:
Join us for IMPS 2023 at the University of Maryland!
The 2023 annual meeting will be held July 25-28, 2023 with short courses on July 24.
IMPS 2024
July 2024
We are excited to share the IMPS 2024 Annual Meeting will be located in Prague, Czech Republic. The meeting will feature all of the keynote speakers, oral sessions, spotlight speakers, poster presentations, and networking events that the IMPS community has come to know and love.
The meeting dates will be released in summer 2023. More details are forthcoming.
IMPS 2022 Photos
Thanks to all for a wonderful IMPS 2022!
Lots of additional photos from the conference are now available. Please see the link and password near the top of the IMPS Photos page.
IMPS 2022 Group Photo
Thanks to all for a wonderful IMPS 2022!
A high resolution version of the group photo taken during the conference can be accessed at the following link:
Get Ready for IMPS 2022!
Many website pages updated in preparation for the conference
Many website pages have been updated and you are encouraged to check the website prior to your departure. A partial list of highlighted updates appears below.
At the top of the main IMPS 2022 page you will find the latest program, schedule at a glance, abstracts, conference map, and travel/health reminders.
The conference registration page contains information on the opening hours of the registration desk.
Secure your IMPS 2022 Hotel Accommodations Today!
Hotels page for IMPS 2022 has been updated
The IMPS 2022 Program Committee has arranged a limited Hotel Congress Booking System link that will allow you to browse and reserve your guest room. The link is currently limited to specific hotels and travel dates, but is available for your use. Please note that new hotels and dates are being added daily to the booking site.
Attendees are not obligated to book through this booking portal. It is offered as a tool that attendees may use to secure a guest room for IMPS 2022.
Please visit the hotels page for IMPS for more details.
Psychometric Society Webinar Series
Online Calibration Designs and Methods for Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Testing
Presenters: Ping Chen (Beijing Normal University), Chun Wang (University of Washington)
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT), as the earliest form of instantiation of artificial intelligence in assessment design, has been widely used in the fields of psychological testing, educational evaluation, personnel selection, and medical diagnosis. The continuous implementation and sustainable use of CAT rely heavily on periodical update and replenishment of the item bank.
IMPS 2022 Registration Now Open!
The Psychometric Society is pleased to announce that you are now able to Register for IMPS 2022.
Join the Psychometric Society in-person at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy, for its 87th Annual Meeting. The meeting will feature all of the keynote speakers, symposia, oral sessions, poster presentations, and networking events that the IMPS community has come to know and love.
IMPS 2022 Abstract Submission Now Open!
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2022
Abstract submission for IMPS 2022 is now closed. Below contains information from the initial announcement.
The IMPS 2022 Annual Meeting is scheduled to be an in-person meeting. The meeting will feature the keynote speakers, symposia, individual oral sessions, poster presentations, and networking events that the IMPS community has come to know and love.
2021 Newsletter
The 2021 Psychometric Society newsletter is now available.
Includes highlights from the 2021 virtual conference, 2021 awards, updates on elections/governance, information about the 2022 IMPS conference, and more.
Download:
Psychometric Society Webinar Series
The Boltzmann Machine in Psychometrics: Implications and Applications
Presenters: Benjamin Deonovic (Corteva), Timo Bechger (Metior Consulting), Gunter Maris (Metior Consulting)
The Boltzmann machine remains an attractive generative model for supervised and unsupervised learning of complex multivariate distributions of binary random variables. Often the observed variables are augmented with unobserved binary variables and a Boltzmann machine is assumed for both together. Popular examples are restricted Boltzmann machines, latent tree models, and deep Boltzmann machines.
Psychometric Society Webinar Series
Bayesian covariance structure modelling for measurement invariance testing
Presenter: Jean-Paul Fox, University of Twente
Bayesian covariance structure modeling (BCSM) is a new approach for modeling clustered data. In this multivariate modeling approach a dependence structure is directly modeled through a structured covariance matrix. The BCSM can be used to model measurement (in)variance, which shows to have many advantages over traditional methods.
Psychometric Society Webinar Series
Computational psychometrics for test development: Combining language and psychometric modeling
Presenters: Yigal Attali, Andrew Runge, Geoff LaFlair, Kevin Yancey & Alina A. von Davier
Moderator: Peter Halpin
Along with the advances in communication and platform technology, it’s become apparent that (quality) content development is at the core of many industries, including the education industry. The development of learning and assessment content has been a craft that has required a high level of expertise, often of the type that was built over the years on the job. In the fast-paced digital education this is difficult to sustain.