The Psychometric Society is pleased to announce that the 74th Annual and the 16th International Conference of the Society will take place at St John's College, Cambridge between the 20th and the 24th July, 2009. St John’s is the second largest of the constituent Colleges of the University of Cambridge. It is set back from the River Cam on one of the most beautiful sites in the City of Cambridge.
The Psychometric Society was founded in 1935. It is an international non-profit professional organisation devoted to the constant improvement of quantitative measurement in psychology, education and the social sciences. The Society publishes the journal Psychometrika, which contains articles on the development of quantitative models of psychological phenomena, as well as statistical methods and mathematical techniques for the evaluation of psychological and educational data.
The meeting is being hosted by The Psychometrics Centre, a centre of excellence within the University of Cambridge dedicated to the furtherance of knowledge and expertise in all fields of human assessment, including educational testing, psychological assessment, talent evaluation and epidemiological research.
The conference programme can now be viewed on this website. It includes keynote, state-of-the-art and invited talks, as well as symposia, contributed papers and posters.
Registration for the 2009 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society is now closed. If you have already registered we look forward to seeing you in Cambridge on the 19th/20th July 2009.
IMPS 2009 is sponsored by Pearson Assessment, Hogrefe UK, Educational Testing Service, Springer Science + Business Media, PsychCorp and Cambridge University Press.