Conference Directory for Division 5 Members

Conferences in Assessment, Evaluation, Measurement, Psychometrics, and Statistics

Conference

Themes Related to Div 5

Dates

Location

Proposal Deadline

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Advancement of scientific and technological excellence across all disciplines, including education, health, and policy.

February 16-20, 2012

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

October 24, 2011

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Measurement and Research Methodology (psychometrics, statistics, quantitative methods, qualitative methods)

April 13-17, 2012

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Passed (July 22, 2011)

American Evaluation Association (AEA)

Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods

October 22-27, 2012

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(To be posted; around end of March, 2012)

American Psychological Association (APA)

Evaluation, measurement, statistics, assessment, qualitative methods

August 2-5, 2012

Orlando, Florida, USA

December 1, 2011

American
Sociological Association (ASA)

Methodology (statistics, mathematics, experimental procedures, data processing)

August 17-20, 2012

Denver, Colorado, USA

January 11, 2012

American Statistical Assoc./Joint Statistical Meetings (ASA/JSM)

Statistics education, data collection methods, statistical advances

July 28- August 2, 2012

San Diego, California, USA

February 1, 2012

European Conference on Psychological Assessment (ECPA)

Diagnostic processes, assessment of personality, intelligence, and behavior, observational and neuropsychological assessment

Late August, 2013 (Exact dates to be posted)

San Sebastian, Spain

(To be posted; around early April, 2013)

European Congress of Methodology (ECM)

Empirical research methods in the fields of the Behavioural, Social, Educational, Health and Economic Sciences as well as in the field of Evaluation Research

July 17-20, 2012

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

(To be posted; around early March of 2012)

European Congress of Psychology (ECP)

Advances in measurement, test use standards, evaluating test quality, testing applications, research methods

July 9-12, 2013

Stockholm, Sweden

November 30, 2012

International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference (IACAT)

Advances adaptive testing in all fields of applied psychological and educational measurement; Improve adaptive instruments and procedures for their administration, scoring, interpretation, and use; Improve applications of adaptive assessment of individuals and evaluations of assessment programs

October 3-5, 2011

Pacific Grove, California, USA

Passed (July 2011)

International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS)

Statistics education at all levels, assessment of and research on statistics education, technology in statistics education

Mid July, 2014

Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

Early 2013

International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP)

Psychological assessment and evaluation

July 8-13, 2014

Paris, France

(To be posted)

International Congress of Cross-cultural Psychology (ICCP)

(No specific themes related to Div 5 but occasional workshops and symposia on methodology)

July 17-21, 2012

Stellenbosch, South Africa

December 1, 2011

International Congress of Psychology (ICP)

Assessment and evaluation, experimental methods, research design and analysis,

July 22-27, 2012

Cape Town, South Africa

December 1, 2011

International Meeting of Psychometric Society (IMPS)

Measurement, quantification, psychometrics, statistics, data visualization

Mid July, 2012 (Exact dates to be posted)

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

(To be posted; around end of March, 2012)

International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD)

(No specific themes related to Div 5, but its Developmental Methods and Cross-cultural Studies may have some methodological appeal)

July 8-12, 2012

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

September 30, 2011

International Test Commission (ITC)

Modern advances in assessment: Testing and digital technology; international testing and testing in heterogeneous populations; developments in theory of testing; professionalization, guidelines, and training in testing; testing, policy, and ethics issues.

July 3-5, 2012

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

December 15, 2011

Methods and Models for Latent Variables

latent structure analysis with particular reference to new boundaries in statistical methods and models, related topics are covered as well

May 17-19, 2012

Naples Federico II, Italy

January 15, 2012

Modern Modeling Methods

Methodological and applied research in multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, longitudinal modeling

May 22-23, 2012

Storrs, Connecticut, USA

January 5, 2012

National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)

Includes Theory Construction and Research Methodology workshop (begins day prior to convention)

November 16-19, 2011

Orlando, Florida USA

Passed

National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)

Methods, Practices, and Policies for Assessment and learning in all aspects of the educational environment including teacher effectiveness, enhanced standards, high-quality assessments and instructional systems

April 12-16, 2012

Vancouver, Canada

August 1, 2011

Society for Personality Assessment

Methods of personality assessment, research on their effectiveness, theory and practice of assessment, applied practice of personality assessment

March 14-18, 2012

Chicago, IL, USA

October 15, 2011

Society for Research in Child Development 2012 Themed Meeting: Developmental Methodology (SRCD)

Interface of developmental science and quantitative methodology, how recent advances in methodology can improve study of developmental change processes and how the unique research questions of child development motivate advancements in quantitative methodology

February 9-11, 2012

Tampa, Florida, USA

Passed

Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)

Developmental methodology

March 8-10, 2012

Vancouver, Canada

Passed (August 19, 2011)

United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS)

Connect researchers from all disciplines that conduct research in statistics education, collect and disseminate resources on research in statistics education.

May 16-18, 2013

Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA

January or February, 2013

World Congress on Probability and Statistics

Theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, and stochastic processes

July 9-14, 2012

Istanbul, Turkey

March 16, 2012


Compiled by Lihshing Leigh Wang (Leigh.Wang@uc.edu), Chair of APA Division 5 Public and International Affairs Committee

Updated September 26, 2011