Summary
The IEA-ETS Research Institute (IERI) is organizing an online academy on assessment designs, and the use of Item Response Theory (IRT) and population modeling in large-scale assessments. The goal of the Academy is to familiarize participants with the topics related to assessment designs and IRT, and enable them to use commercially and freely available software to conduct appropriate IRT analysis and generate proficiency estimates or plausible values.
The Academy is targeted to participants with some or little knowledge in the area of IRT and multiple imputations. The Academy will be limited to 30 participants. Participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Participants of the Academy are expected to have knowledge of statistical analysis techniques and need to have their own computer to access the session and videos over the internet and to carry out the hands-on training exercises. Demonstration versions of the software for the hands-on training will be distributed to the participants during the Academy. Spreadsheet applications such as Excel, and statistical software such as SPSS, SAS or R will be useful, but are not required.