[edm-announce] Save the Date - Innovative Assessment of Collaboration 2-day Working Meeting

From: Stephen Fancsali <sfancsali@xxxxxxxxx>
To: edm-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:24:37 -0400
[on behalf of Alina Von Davier]

INNOVATIVE ASSESSMENT OF COLLABORATION
PROSPECTUS FOR A 2-DAY WORKING MEETING

Washington, D.C.
Monday, Nov. 3 – Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014

The rapidly growing literature on teamwork and collaborative problem
solving suggests that these skills are becoming increasingly important in
today’s organizations. However, significant developments in the evaluation
of these skills are occurring within different research communities, often
independently of one another.

Educational Testing Service (ETS) is hosting a two-day working meeting
organized around five thematic panels that will bring together researchers
in organizational teaming, educational collaboration, tutoring, simulation,
gaming, and statistical and psychometric process modeling.  Practitioners
and researchers who approach teamwork and collaborative problem solving
from different perspectives will come together to share insights and
contribute to the development of reliable and valid collaborative
assessment.

Organizers

Alina A. Von Davier
Senior Research Director, Center for Advanced Psychometrics, ETS

Patrick Kyllonen
Senior Research Director, Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and
Success, ETS

Mengxiao Zhu
Associate Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Psychometrics, ETS


Tentative Proposed Panels & Presenters

Panel 1: Evaluation of Team Performance in Organizations
This panel will discuss methods and findings for evaluating collective
performance in organizational settings. Presenters include Nancy Cooke
(Arizona State University), who specializes in the development,
application, and evaluation of methodologies to elicit and assess
individual and team cognition and performance; Eduardo Salas and Stephen
Fiore (both from University of Central Florida), who are experts on
teamwork, team training, advanced training technology, decision-making
under stress, learning methodologies and performance assessment;  Leslie
DeChurch (Georgia Institute of Technology), who studies leadership and
teamwork in organizations with a special focus on leadership networks and
multi-team systems; and Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University), who
investigates factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and
dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in various
types of teams in both real-world and virtual-world teams.

Panel 2: Evaluation of Students Working Together in Tutoring Environments,
Games, and Simulations
This panel will focus on interactive learning environments, such as
intelligent tutors, games, and simulations. Presenters include Art Graesser
(University of Memphis), who designed, developed, and tested software that
integrates psychological sciences with learning, language, and discourse
technologies; Vincent Aleven (Carnegie Mellon University), who develops
novel technologies for instruction, in particular for creating intelligent
tutoring systems, and Carolyn Penstein Rose (Carnegie Mellon University),
who studies the approaches from computational discourse analysis and text
mining, conversational agents, and computer supported collaborative
learning; and Saad Khan (ETS), who has the expertise in developing computer
vision and human machine interaction algorithms.

Panel 3: Evaluation of Collaborative Problem Solving Performance in
Educational Settings
This panel will discuss students working collaboratively in educational
settings, such as problem solving. It includes Patrick Griffin (University
of Melbourne), who is an expert on broad topics in assessment and
evaluation and has developed dozens of online collaborative problem solving
tasks that are used in 10 countries; Alina Von Davier and Patrick Kyllonen
(both from ETS), who are both assessment experts and will discuss the
collaborative problem solving projects at ETS; and Matthias Von Davier
(ETS), who is an expert on psychometric methodologies  and  will discuss
modeling strategies for the PISA 2015 collaborative assessment data.

Panel 4: Statistical Models for Dependent Process Data
In this session, the presenters will discuss several modeling approaches to
dependent time series that represent the individuals’ actions during a
collaborative problem solving task or other form of team interaction. The
presenters also may address the integration of the models for process data
and outcome data. Presenters include Peter Halpin (New York University),
who together with Alina Von Davier has proposed a model for studying
interactions based on the Hawkes process. This panel will also include Yoav
Bergner and Jiangang Hao, both from the Center for Advanced Psychometrics
(CAP) at ETS, who apply novel techniques, such as cluster analysis and
editing distance, in analyzing process data; and Ron Stevens from UCLA and
TLC Inc., who is using EEG to model team Neurodynamics in settings as
diverse as US Navy Submarine Piloting and Navigation and high school
problem solving.

Panel 5: Statistical Models for Collaboration and Group Dynamics
This panel will discuss advanced statistical models used in analyzing
collaboration and group dynamics, such as social network models and
Bayesian modeling. The presenters include Mengxiao Zhu from CAP at ETS, who
studies the impact of social networks on team assembly and performance;
Tracy Sweet (University of Maryland), who has expertise in social networks
applied to education; Emilio Ferrer (University of California, Davis) and
Joel Steele (Portland State University), who studied change with time in
married couples (e.g., relationship dynamics) using structural equation
modeling, multi-level or mixed effects modeling, state-space modeling, and
Bayesian modeling.

Meeting Logistics & Registration information will be available soon.
Sincerely,
Katie Faherty
Educational Testing Service
[edm-announce] Save the Date - Innovative Assessment of Collaboration 2-day Working Meeting

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