[edm-announce] NCME 2012 - Educational Measurement Conference in Vancouver, Canada!

From: "Andre A. Rupp" <ruppandr@xxxxxxx>
To: "edm-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <edm-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:55:18 -0400
Dear colleagues in the Educational Data Mining community,

my name is Andre Rupp and I am an Associate Professor in the Department of 
Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, formerly the Department of 
Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methods at the University of Maryland in 
Washington, DC. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the 2010 EDM meeting 
in Pittsburgh, which was a great learning and networking experience for me. I 
am writing to you today because I am the co-chair for the program of the Annual 
Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), which is 
held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Educational 
Research Association (AERA) (see www.ncme.org). Next year the meeting will be 
held from April 12-16 in Vancouver, BC, Canada, which is a wonderful location 
(I should know, because I got my Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia 
there).

I wanted to tell you a bit about the NCME community and encourage you to submit 
a proposal to the meeting, since the orientations of the two communities 
complement each other very well in my opinion. I think bridging the disciplines 
of educational measurement and educational data mining is so critical moving 
forward, especially in times of innovative tools such as digital learning 
environments, which is one of the reasons why I am the current co-editor of the 
Special Issue for JEDM.

The NCME community is comprised of researchers, professionals working in 
testing companies, teachers, and other assessment specialists. Its general 
focus is on educational measurement, which is protypically often associated 
with the design, implementation, and data analysis for large-scale standardized 
tests but really includes more than that. In recent years, there has been a 
decided push for investigating properties of formative assessment systems with 
diagnostic score reporting, classroom assessment more broadly, policy-making 
based on data from these assessments, and other related issues.

The call for proposals that I created with my colleague and co-chair Joanna 
Gorin from ASU identifies three orientations for work, (1) methodology, (2) 
practice, and (3) policy for next year. Historically, it is probably fair to 
say that most submissions were in the area of methodology, typically with 
simulation studies and real-data analyses. We are making a renewed and 
concerted attempt this year to reach out to members of other constituencies to 
broaden the bouquet of topics, presentation types, and research methods that 
are being presented. I believe that the EDM community has a range of 
interesting projects and methodologies to whom NCME members should be exposed 
for professional development purposes, and vice versa. I know that some of you 
have already presented at NCME and / or AERA and I hope that you could see the 
benefits of that.

In short, I would love to have EDM community members present some work next 
year. The process for acceptance is the usual peer-review process so I cannot 
guarantee an acceptance of your work of course but I am certainly very 
interested in having more prototypical EDM work presented at NCME. Please 
consider our conference as a potential outlet for your work. I know that the 
deadline is coming up relatively shortly - August 1 - and I apologize for not 
having written this sooner. Nevertheless, you can hopefully create a meaningful 
proposal, whose length requirements are very reasonable in my view.

Joanna and I would be looking very forward to receiving your work in our 
submission system!

Sincerely,

Andre Rupp

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Andre A. Rupp, Associate Professor
EDHQ Department
University of Maryland
1230-A Benjamin Building
College Park, MD 20742

Phone: (301) 405-3623
Fax: (301) 312-9245
E-mail: ruppandr@xxxxxxx
Web: http://education.umd.edu/EDMS/fac/Rupp.html
[edm-announce] NCME 2012 - Educational Measurement Conference in Vancouver, Canada!

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