Capability-oriented Evaluation in AI: From IRT to Measurement Layouts

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Prof Jose Hernandez-Orallo.

S3.04, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning in Readability Assessment

Ekaterina Kochmar (University of Cambridge).

Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Optimal Design for Item Response Theory Models

Professor Heinz Holling, University of Muenster, Germany.

Room W4.05, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Business Briefing Series, Cambridge Judge Business School

How to Deploy Psychometrics Successfully in an Organisation

Registration essential

David Stillwell.

BNY Mellon Centre, 160 Queen Victoria St, London, EC4V 4LA.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 18:30-21:00

The 2017 Flynn Lecture: Male and Female IQ- A balance sheet

Professor James Flynn, Department of Politics, University of Orago.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 July 2017, 15:30-17:00

Multidimensional IRT models and their applications to psychological testing

Igor Menezes (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 13:30-17:30

Textual sentiment, option information and stock predictability

Cathy YH Chen, Yanchu Liu and Wolfgang Karl Härdle.

Room W2.02, Judge Business School, Trumpington St., Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Innovative approaches to mindfulness and new applications in the clinical field

Dr. Francesco Pagnin, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan.

KH107(Keynes House), Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

How smart does your profile image look? Estimating intelligence from social network profile images

Xingjie Wei, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge .

Lecture Theatre 3 (4th floor), Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

Face Anonymity-Perceptibility Paradigm and an Application in Online Dating Industry

Dr. Shasha Lu, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

KH107, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Reflections about intelligence over 30 years

Professor James Flynn ( University of Otago).

Zangwill Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge CB2 3EB.

Wednesday 21 September 2016, 15:00-16:00

Measuring impacts of the economic crisis on well-being in Europe using a comprehensive measure

Kai Ruggeri, University of Cambridge.

Room W2.02, Judge Business School, Trumpington St., Cambridge.

Monday 29 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Assessment of enterprising personality in youth

Dr Javier Suárez-Álvarez; Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo.

Castle Teaching Room, Judge Business School, Trumpington St., Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Predicting Psychology from Social Media Data

Dr David Stillwell - Judge Management School, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Money buys happiness when spending fits our personality

Sandra Matz, the Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge .

Room KH109, Judge Business School, Trumpington St., Cambridge.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Do romantic partners or friends have similar personality after all?

Youyou Wu, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge.

Room KH107, Judge Business School, Trumpington St., Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Testing for integrity in the workplace

John Rust, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge.

Room 4.03, Judge Business School, Trumpington St., Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Should there be limits to academic freedom?

Professor James Flynn.

G/F Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Friday 28 August 2015, 15:00-16:00

Big data for gender equality: digital records of gendered interests are associated with state-level gender equality in the US

Youyou Wu.

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Personalised Persuasion: Using preference-based predictions of personality for customised advertising on Facebook

Sandra Matz.

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Twitter, Demographics and Emotions: Inferring Perceived User Properties from Emotional Tone and User-Environment Emotional Contrast

Svitlana Volkova, PhD Candidate, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins.

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 16 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

An Evaluation of procedures to Assess Cognitive Effort in Malingering of Memory

Dr. Barry Tam (Clinical Psychologist; Hong Kong Hospital Authority; UCL) .

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Therapeutic Assessment: When a Clinical Psychologist Stands at the Crossroads of Psychological Assessment and Psychotherapy

Chia-Chi Chang (Clinical Psychologist; PhD. Candidate, Dept of Management, LSE).

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Aspects of Adversarial and Defensive Psychology in Complex Settings – Part Two

Paul Britton (Consultant Psychologist).

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Why latent varaibles in SEM do not always work well

Kasia Julia Doniec.

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Aspects of adversarial and defensive psychology in complex settings

Paul Britton, Consultant Psychologist.

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Using the Ekman 60 Faces Test to Detect Emotion Recognition Deficit in Brain Injury Patients

Luning Sun.

2nd Floor Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Towards a science of intelligence: Raven's reconsidered

Professor James Flynn.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 September 2014, 16:00-17:00

Workshop: « What’s beyond Concerto: an introduction to the R package catR »

Dr. David Magis.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, New Museum Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 08:30-12:30

Crowd IQ: Weighting Votes in Crowdsourcing and Multi-Agent Systems using Item Response Theory

Dr. Michal Konsinski.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Dr David Magis.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Dr David Magis.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

Why do people respond inconsistently? Low person-fit on a personality test reflects suspicion and imagination

Dr. David Stillwell, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

‘Product-orientation’ among psychometric criteria in development and application

Professor Mark Haggard, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Automatic transcription of music using machine learning, and an study into privacy settings of users on Facebook.

Arman Idani, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Differential Item and Bundle Functioning in Educational Testing Contexts

Josip Sabic, National Centre for External Evaluation of Education, Croatia.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Multilevel Analysis: Application in Large Scale Assessments

Prof. Dr. Igor G. Menezes, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Nash and the degree heuristic in network games: An online experiment

Dr. Edoardo Gallo, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Improving patient reported outcome measures for use in primary care

Dr. Chris Gibbons, Centre for Primary Care: Institute of Population Health, CLAHRC, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

The story of what was hidden in our genes

Prof Dr James Flynn (University of Otago, New Zealand).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Thursday 05 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

Geographical perspectives on personality and wellbeing

Dr. Markus Jokela, University of Helsinki.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Friday 14 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

From situation to cognition --- A discovery process

Dr Wei Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Learning to Interact with Humans

Dr. Pushmeet Kohli (Microsoft Research).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Fair testing in Web 2.0 – where psychometricians’ and candidates’ interests meet

Katharina Lochner, cut-e Group and Free University of Berlin.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Psychometric application of bifactor modelling for multidimensional mental health phenotype: a population based genotype‐trait association study

Dr. Kate M. Xu, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Using Rasch Analysis in Neurological and Community Rehabilitation - The SARDINE Project (Secondary Analysis of Routine Data in Neurorehab Evaluations)

Dr Andrew Bateman (Dept of Psychiatry and Oliver Zangwill Centre, Ely).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

Investigating Cognition using CANTAB

Dr. Charlotte Housden, Cambridge Cognition, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Part A: Humanitarian Work Psychology: Addressing Global Concerns through the Science of Work; Part B: Examining the Five Factor Model of Personality across Twenty-Seven Countries: The Influence of Development and Culture

Dr. Lori Foster Thompson and Dr. Adam W. Meade ( North Carolina State University) .

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

There is accounting for taste! Detecting Age and Gender Variations in Music Taste using MIMIC Model

Arielle Bonneville-Roussy (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Applying principles of item response theory to produce efficient ultra-short form questionnaires

Prof. Mark Haggard, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Combining micro and macro analyses to observe interaction in longitudinal studies: The case of children's emotion regulation in early childhood

Gabriela Roman, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Online Personality Trends in Love and Friends - A Big-Five Facebook Study

Koen De Couck, Ghent University.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

The Differential Effects of Different Categories of War Events, Age at Capture, and Duration in Captivity on Depression in a Ugandan Cohort of War-affected Youth - The WAYS Study

Dr Kennedy Amone-P'Olak (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Aggregating Minds

Dr Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

The future of myPersonality and research using Online Social Networks

David Stillwell, University of Cambridge.

Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

IQ Gains in the 21st Century

Prof Dr James Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 July 2012, 15:00-16:00

The mediating effect of career decision-making self-efficacy in the relationship between pressure on employment and vocational selection anxiety

Zhonghua Liu, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Automatic Rule-Based Generation of Items for Intelligence Tests and Probability Word Problems

Prof. Dr. Heinz Holling, University of Muenster.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Effects of ignoring clustered data structures in factor analysis and item response theory

Dr. Jan Stochl, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Identifying and Preventing Careless Survey Responses

Dr. Adam Meade, North Carolina State University.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 22 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

State of the art in psychometric modelling of forced-choice questionnaire data

Dr. Anna Brown.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

On Latent Change Model Choice in Longitudinal Studies

Dr. Tenko Raykov, Michigan State University.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Friday 02 December 2011, 15:00-16:00

To Lie or Not to Lie - Do Self-Monitoring and Impression Management Go Hand in Hand?

Iva Cek (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Friday 25 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

How do you like 'Likes'? (and some other cool projects from the Psychometrics Centre)

Michal Kosinski (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Friday 11 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Demonstration of Neuropsychological Assessment Tools

Kerry Rough, Pearson Assessment.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 14:00-16:00

Challenges to test standardization in the 21st century

Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Friday 28 October 2011, 15:00-16:00

Using R for Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Easier than it seems

Arielle Bonneville-Roussy (University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 14:00-16:00

Applications of Item Response Theory (IRT)

Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 14:00-16:00

Classical Psychometric Test Theory

Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 14:00-16:00

Psychometric Test Construction

Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 14:00-16:00

Psychometrics in Context

Professor John Rust, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 14:00-16:00

Mind reading by machine learning: a doubly Bayesian method for inferring mental representations

Máté Lengyel (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Computerized Adaptive Testing - The State of the Art

Philipp Doebler (University of Muenster, Germany).

Seminar Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

A brief introduction to neuropsychological tests

Luning Sun (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Psychometrics Centre Seminar Series

The Flynn Effect, intelligence, and US Black/White IQ

Professor James Flynn, University of Otago.

SPS Seminar Room.

Monday 11 October 2010, 17:00-18:00

Confidence intervals for IRT models: three new exact approaches meeting different criteria of optimality

Anna Doebler - WWU Münster.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 10:00-11:00

Modern Answers for a Classic Question: Sex Differences in General Intelligence?

Emily Savage-McGlynn, Cambridge University.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 10:30-11:30

MyPersonality: how to utilize social networks for social research

David Stillwell (University of Nottingham).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 10:30-11:30

Introduction to Mokken scaling

Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 10:30-11:30

Measurement of Influence Factors in a Decision Making Process: An Application of Conjoint Analysis

Farrah Arif (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 10:30-11:30

Understanding how people think through means and ends: An introduction to laddering

Dominic Yeo (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 10:30-11:30

Introduction to Item Response Theory

Uli Reininghaus.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 10:30-11:30

Identifying key drivers of item variance in your questionnaire data: an introduction to Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Jan Stochl.

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 10:30-11:30

Poseurs, tricksters and loafers - how to recognize them among your participants?

Michal Kosinski (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 10:30-11:30

Ready Steady Cook (book): Cooking up a psychometric treat in 20 minutes - live, hot and tasty!

Dr Tim Croudace ( University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 10:30-11:30

Psychometrics at the University of Cambridge

Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 10:30-11:30

Psychometrics Centre Seminar Series

Navigating ethical and compliance issues in developing causal conclusions from randomized field trials: A case study

Professor Brain Junker, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Small Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Addenbrookes Hospital.

Monday 08 December 2008, 11:30-13:00

Psychometrics Centre Seminar Series

Psychometric Principles 4: How can test bias and adverse impact be addressed?

Professor John Rust, Director, the Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 15:00-17:00

Psychometrics Centre Seminar Series

Psychometric Principles 3: Why is it important to standardise tests?

Professor John Rust, Director, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 15:00-17:00