If you missed Dr. Bengt Muthen’s Colloquium, Recent Advances in Latent Variable Modeling, visit: https://www.statmodel.com/ to access the slides and video for this presentation!

On December 4, 2020, Dr. Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead (RMME faculty member) gave a fantastic talk, entitled “Working with Youth in Evaluation” for EvalYouth Global, a global, multi-stakeholder network that supports and promotes young and emerging evaluators (YEEs) and youth-led accountability around the world. In this presentation, Dr. Montrosse-Moorhead spoke about the foundations, principles, and tensions in youth participatory evaluation work. Interested individuals can access a copy of her presentation at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346629709_Working_with_Youth_in_Evaluation.

RMME/STAT Joint Colloquium:

Response Accuracy and Response Time in Cognitive Tests

Paul De Boeck
The Ohio State University

December 18^th at 12:00 EST

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m1b6efd4435a2cd17535d693bd2ac1a14

It is an old and still unresolved issue how much a cognitive test score reflects ability and how much it reflects speed. The well-known speed-accuracy tradeoff does not make an answer to the question easier. In the presentation I will report the results of my research steps to investigate the problem. Briefly summarized, the findings are as follows. First, the correlation of ability and speed across persons depends on the test. Second, based on different kinds of modeling and different kinds of data, there seem to be remaining item-wise dependencies (i.e., conditional dependencies) between response accuracy and response time after controlling for the underlying latent variables. Third, the remaining dependencies depend on the difficulties of the test items and the dependencies also are curvilinear. I will present an explanation for the findings, and a tentative, complex answer to the old question of what is being measured in a cognitive test.

Recent Advances in Latent Variable Modeling

Bengt Muthen

Friday, November 20, 2020

11:30am -1:00pm

Abstract:  This talk gives an overview of some recent and ongoing latent variable research.  Borrowing ideas from multilevel factor analysis, longitudinal SEM in a single-level, wide format is formulated in a new way that finds a well-fitting model 45 years after the writing of the classic Wheaton, Muthen, Alwin, and Summers article.  This segues into a generalization of latent transition analysis using the multilevel notion of a random intercept while staying in a single-level, wide format.  Turning back to multilevel modeling, the talk considers time series analysis of intensive longitudinal data.  This is illustrated by intervention data on electricity consumption and a randomized intervention related to positive and negative affect where cycles play a major role.  Finally, the new feature in Mplus Version 8.5 of Bayesian analysis of count, nominal, and binary logit models is presented.

This session is jointly sponsored by the Statistics department and the Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation program as part of the Statistical Applications and Quantitative Research Methods colloquium series.

Tanesia Beverly successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled, “Examining Within Person Changes in Speed in a Verbal Reasoning Test.” Congratulations, Dr. Beverly!

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Sarah D. Newton successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled, “Multilevel Model Selection and Effective Sample Size—In Information Criteria We Trust.” Congratulations, Dr. Newton!