IMPS 2009: Conference Participants

Click here for an alphabetical list of attendees.
Listed below are links from named conference participants or co-authors to the pages showing abstracts of their papers. It is not in alphabetical order. Use your browser's find or search facility to locate the name you are looking for, and then click on blue to see details.
Pre-conference workshops: Jeroen Vermunt (20th July, 9.00 - 13.00, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building); Alina von Davier, (20th July, 9.00 - 13.00, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building); Andrew Pickles (14.30 - 18.30, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building); Matthias von Davier (20th July, 14.30 - 18.30, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building).
Presidential address: Brian Junker (Chair Paul de Boeck, Thursday 23rd July, 17.30 - 18.30)
Keynotes: Bill Dickens (Chair John Rust, Tuesday 21st July, 9.20 - 10.20); Peter Congdon (Chair Tim Croudace, Wednesday 22nd July, 8.45 - 9.45); Ken Koedinger (Chair Brian Junker, Thursday 23rd July, 8.30 - 9.30). All keynotes are held in the Palmeston Lecture Theatre, Fisher Building.
Invited talks: Nanny Wermuth (Chair Roger Millsap, Tuesday 21st July, 12.20 -13.05); Tom Minka (Chair Jonathan Templin, Tuesday 21st July, 14.30 - 15.15); Carol Woods (Chair Wim van der Linden, Tuesday 21st July, 17.15 - 18.00); Rebecca Nugent (Chair David Kaplan, Wednesday 22nd July, 14.30 - 15.15); Herb Marsh (Chair Tim Croudace, Wednesday 22nd July, 17.15 - 18.00); Edoardo M. Airoldi (Chair Elena Erosheva, Thursday 23rd July, 14.00 - 14.45). All invited talks will be held in the Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras.
State of the art talks: Jonathan Templin (Chair Terry Ackerman, Tuesday 21st July, 12.20 - 13.05); Francis Tuerlinckx (Chair Kohei Adachi, Tuesday 21st July, 14.30 - 15.15); Ellen Hamaker (Chair Sy-Miin Chow, Tuesday 21st July, 17.15 - 18.00); Richard Emsley, (Chair Tim Croudace, Wednesday 22nd July 11.45 - 12.30); Elena Erosheva (Chair Irini Moustaki, Wednesday 22nd July, 14.30 - 15.15); Andries van der Ark (Chair Klaas Sijtsma, Wednesday 22nd July, 17.15 - 18.00). All state of the art talks will be given in the Palmeston Lecture Theatre, Fisher Building.
Disssertation prize: Bonne J.H. Zijlstra (Chair: Klaas Sijtsma, Thursday 23rd July, 16.45 - 17.30)
Measurement invariance symposium, Chair: Jelte Wicherts, Tuesday 21st July, 10.50 - 12.10, Palmerston Lecture Theatre, Fisher Building. Jelte Wicherts, Annemarie Zand Scholten, Denny Borsboom, Conor Dolan, Iris Smits, Harrie Vorst, Sophie van der Sluis, Danielle Posthuma, Matthijs Verhage.
Constrained optimisation symposium, Chair: Casper Albers, Tuesday 21st July, 15.25 - 16.45, Palmeston Lecture Theatre, Fisher Building. Mike Powell, Frank Critchley, Casper Albers, John C. Gower.
Complex data symposium, Chair: Frank Rijmen, Wednesday 22nd July, 9.55 - 11.15, Palmeston Lecture Theatre, Fisher Building. Frank Rijmen, Edward Ip, Roberta Varriale, Olga Lukočienė, Jeroen Vermunt.
Causal effects symposium. Chair: Ulf Kröhne, Wednesday 22nd July, 15.25 - 16.45, Palmerston Lecture Theatre, Fisher Building. Christiane Fiege, Rolf Steyer, Steffi Pohl, Peter M. Steiner, Jens Eisermann, Renate Soellner, Thomas D. Cook, Ulf Kröhne,
Identification problems symposium, Chair: Ernesto San Martín, Friday 24th July, 9.30 - 10.50, Palmeston Lecture Theatre, Fisher Building. Javier Revuelta, Alejandro Jara, Ernesto San Martín, Timo Bechger, Gunter Maris, Jean-Marie Rolin, Paul De Boeck.
Emeritus lecture: Roderick P. McDonald, Chair: Brian Junker, Thursday 14.00 - 14.45, Palmeston Lecture Theatre, Fisher Building.
Education research applications (01), Chair: Kei Miazaki, Tuesday 21st July, 10.50 - 12.10, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Yung-Mei Tseng, Chi-Ling Lin, Shu-Ching Yang, Tim Gaffney, Cassandra Perryman.
Social psychology applications (02), Chair: David Hessen, Friday 24th July, 11.30 - 12.50, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Ling-Wan Chen, Mi-Tao Chen, Hsing-Ming Lee, Lihshing Wang, Shuyan Sun,
Psychometric methods for health outcomes I (03), Chair: Christophe Lalanne, Wednesday 22nd July, 11.45- 13.05, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Christophe Lalanne, Martin Duracinsky, Catherine Acquadro, Olivier Chassany, Myriam Blanchin, Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Tanguy Le Neel, Gildas Kubis, Véronique Sébille, Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, Bruce R. Wright, G. Leonard Burns, Craig D. Parks, Paul Strand, Jean-Benoit Hardouin, T Le Néel, G Kubis, V Sébille, B Fallissard,
Psychometric methods for health outcomes II (04), Chair: Sik-Yum Lee, Thursday 23rd July, 9.40 - 11.00, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. Wilco Emons, Ulrich Reininghaus, Tom Burns, Rosemarie McCabe, Stefan Priebe, Tim Croudace, Elizabeth Savoca, Jon Heron, Carol Joinson, Glyn Lewis, Ricardo Araya.
Dynamic and longitudinal models I (05), Chair: Rung-Ching Tsai, Wednesday 22nd July, 11.45- 13.05, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Tom Lodewyckx, Francis Tuerlinckx, Peter Kuppens, Nicholas Allen, Lisa Sheeber, Wilfried Cools, Francis Tuerlinckx, Peter Kuppens, Sylvia Cagnone, Irini Moustaki, Vassilis Vasdekis, Mark de-Rooij.
Growth curves and longitudinal models I (06), Chair: Michael Browne, Thursday 23rd July, 9.40 - 11.00, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Betsy Feldman, Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Bengt Muthen, Tihomir Asparouhov, Andrew Pickles, Milena Falcaro, Matthias von Davier, Xueli Xu, Claus H. Carstensen.
Growth curves and longitudinal models II (07), Chair: Gregory Palardy , Thursday 23rd July, 11.30 - 12.50, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Gregory J. Palardy, Xinyuan Song, Lee Sikyum, Hser Yihing, Silvia Cagnone, Silvia Bianconcini, Sy-Miin Chow, Niansheng Tang, Ying Yuan, Xinyuan Song, Hongtu Zhu.
Dynamic and longitudinal models II (08), Chair: Matthias von Davier, Thursday 23rd July, 14.55 - 16.15, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Harry Garst, Lee Sik-Yum, Song Xinyuan, Hser Yihing, Michael Browne, Guangjian Zhang, Ingmar Visser, Maarten Speekenbrink.
Computer Adaptive Testing: Methodology (09), Chair: Claus Carstensen, Thursday 23rd July, 9.40 - 11.00, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Shu-Ying Chen, Hsuan-Jui Shih, Wen-Chung Wang, Matthieu Brinkhuis, Gunter Maris.
Computer Adaptive Testing: The influence of early and pretest items (10), Chair: Mark Reckase, Thursday 23rd July, 14.55 - 16.15, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. Huijuan Meng, Susan Steinkamp, Joy Matthews-Lopez, Mariagiulia Matteucci, Bernard P. Veldkamp, Ivailo Partchev, Mark Reckase, Wei He.
Computerized Adaptive Testing: Item selection (11), Chair: Hua hua Chang, Friday 24th July, 9.30 - 10.50, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Hua-Hua Chang, Chun Wang, Keith Boughton, Marjan Bakker, Hua-Hua Chang, Chia-Ling Hsu, Shu-Ying Chen, Richard J. Swartz, Seung W. Choi.
Computer Adaptive Testing: New directions (12), Chair: Maarten Speekenbrink, Friday 24th July, 11.30 - 12.50, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Maarten Speekenbrink, Nick Chater, David R. Shanks, Maretha Prinsloo, Niki-Nils Seitz, Andreas Frey, Chen-Wei Liu, Wen-Chung Wang.
Computerized Adaptive Tests: Applications (13), Chair: Matthieu Brinkhuis, Thursday 11.30 - 12.50, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Neils Smits, Harrie Vorst, Haya Shamir, Erin Phinney Johnson, Kimberly Brown, Aries Yulianto, Delphine Courvoisier, Michael Eid, Tanja Lischetzke
Classification and clustering (14), Chair: Victor Wilson, Tuesday 21st July, 15.25 - 16.45, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Tomoki Tokuda, Iven Van Mechelen, Francis Tuerlinckx, Hye Won Suk, Heungsun Hwang, David Kaplan, Bryan Keller, Ming Lei, Won-Chan Lee.
Cognitive diagnosis: Classification and clustering (15), Chair: Jimmy De la Torre, Wednesday 22nd July, 9.55 - 11.15, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Young-Sun Lee, Jimmy de la Torre, Chia-Yi Chiu, Jeff Douglas, Elizabeth Ayers, Rebecca Nugent, Nema Dean, Pei-Hua Chen, Haiyan Wu.
Mixtures and complex latent structures (16), Chair: Ming Lei, Tuesday 21st July, 10.50 - 12.10, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. Hye-Jeong Choi, Jonathan L. Templin, Allan S. Cohen, Robert A. Henson, Ariel Alonso, Saskia Litière, Geert Molenberghs, Jimmy de la Torre, Chia-Yi Chiu.Cognitive diagnosis: Applications (17), Chair: Andreas Frey, Thursday 23rd July, 14.55 - 16.15, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Marian Hickendorff, Claus Carstensen, Yang Tao, Yu Na, Yang Tao, Li Lingyan, Gabriela Gonzalez Marin, Samantha Bouwmeester, A. Marije Boonstra.
New perspectives on social and psychological processes (18). Chair: Yasuo Miyazaki, Tuesday 21st July, 15.25 - 16.45, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. Kian Abolfazlian, Jan-Marten Ihme, Han van der Maas, Sven Stringer, Denny Borsboom, Gunter Maris, Teresa Calapez, Madalena Ramos.
Confirmatory and likelihood-based factor analysis (19), Chair: Vartan Choulikian, Wednesday 22nd July, 15.25 - 16.45, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. S McKay-Curtis, Elena A. Erosheva, Fan Yang-Wallentin, Hao Luo, Karl G Jöreskog, Soonmook Lee, Inhye Kim , Frans Oort.
Exploratory factor analysis: rotation (20), Chair: Michel van del Velden, Wednesday 22nd July, 9.55 - 11.15, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Vartan Choulakian, Kohei Adachi, Doyo Gragn, Nickolay T. Trendafilov, Jyun-Ji Lin, Wen-Chung Wang.
Exploratory factor analysis: New directions (21), Chair: Joost Van Ginkel, Thursday 23rd July, 11.30 - 12.50, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. Shu-chuan Kao, Yeow Meng Thum, Joost van Ginkel, Pieter M. Kroonenberg, David Flora, E.M. Romero Escobar, Steffen Unkel, Nickolay T. Trendafilov.
Structural Equation Models: Fit and generalisation (22), Chair: Roger Millsap, Tuesday 21st July, 15.25 - 16.45, Uppercroft, School of Pytahgoras. Johan Lyhagen, Daniel Bauer, Ruth Mathiowetz, Nisha Gottfredson, Jolynn Pek, Diane Losardo, Ab Mooijaart, Albert Satorra, Roger Millsap, Soyoung Lee.
Structural Equation Models: Inference (23), Chair: Patrick Malone, Tuesday 21st July, 10.50 - 12.10, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Wai Chan, Joyce L.-Y. Kwan, Patrick S. Malone, Amanda J. Fairchild, Andrea Lamont, Thomas F. Northrup, David P. MacKinnon, Li-Jen Weng, Hsin-Yun Liu, Yutaka Kano, Keiji Takai.
Computational methods (24), Chair: Yoshio Takane, Wednesday 22nd July, 15.25 - 16.45, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Sunho Jung, Yoshio Takane, Tatsuo Otsu, Ting Hsiang Lin.
Preference and unfolding models (25), Chair: Mark de Rooij, Wednesday 22nd July, 9.55 - 11.15, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Rung-Ching Tsai, Ulf Böckenholt, Shiu-Lien Wu, Wen-Chung Wang, Anna Brown, Alberto Maydeu-Olivares, Na Yang, Brian Habing.
Differential Item Functioning: Detection (26), Chair: Peter van Riijn, Thursday 23rd Jul, 9.40 - 11.00, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. David Magis, Paul de Boeck, Lihua Yao, Feiming Li, Michelle Langer, Paul de Boeck, Sun-Joo Cho.
Differential Item Functioning: Methods and applications (27), Chair: Brian Clauser, Wednesday 22nd July, 15.25 - 16.45, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Marie Wiberg, Ya-Hui Su, Wen-Chung Wang, Ahyoung Kim, Ji Eun Joo.
Differential Item Functioning: New models and applications (28), Chair: Richard Swartz, Thursday 23rd July, 14.55 - 16.15, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Rianne Janssen, Mussie Kebede Akalu, Sofie Frederickx, Francis Tuerlinckx, Paul De Boeck, David Magis, Karl Schweizer.
Differential Item Functioning: Multilevel and structural equation approaches (29), Chair: Rianne Janssen, Thursday July 23rd, 11.30 - 12.50:, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Yuk-Fai Cheong, Suzanne Jak, F. J. Oort, C.V.Dolan of Amsterdam, C.W.M. van Zoelen, Ching-Lin Shih, Wen-Chung Wang, Yen-Fang Chen, Ching-Lin Shih,
Categorical and survey data: Methodology (30), Chair: Peter van der Heijden, Friday 24th July, 9.30 - 10.50, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Maria Kateri, Peter van der Heijden, Ardo D.L. van den Hout, Ulf Bockenholt, Joakim Ekström, Jay Verkuilen, Christopher Siefert.
Test equating: Methodology (31), Chair: Michelle Langer, Thursday 23rd July, 14.55 - 16.15, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Thomas Benton, Kyung (Chris) Han, Craig S. Wells, Ronald K. Hambleton, Brad Ching-Chao Wu, Peter van Rijn, A. A. Béguin.
Test equating: Cross-validation and concurrent calibration (32), Chair: Ralph Carlson, Tuesday 21st July, 15.25 - 16.45, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Tie Liang, Alina von Davier, Yih-Shan Shih, Bor-Chen Kuo, Tian-Wei Sheu, Ching-Lin Shih, Kei Miyazaki, Takahiro Hoshino, Kazuo Shigemasu, Koichi Osawa.
Hierarchical models and structure (33), Chair: Ab Mooijaart, Tuesday 21st July, 10.50 - 12.10,, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Victor L. Willson, Ross Larsen, Ralph Carlson, Hilda Medrano, Yasuo Miyazaki, Jorge González, Ernesto San Martín, Jorge Manzi.
Item Response Theory: Inference about proficiencies (34), Chair: Christoph Schuster, Wednesday 22nd July, 11.45- 13.05, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Won-Chan Lee, Robert L. Brennan, Eunjung Lee, Christof Schuster, Ke-Hai Yuan, Fumiko Samejima, Chun Wang, Hua-Hua Chang, Keith Boughton.
Item Response Theory: Polytomous items (35), Chair: Marieke van Onna, Wednesday 22nd July, 15.25 - 16.45, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Prathiba Natesan, Tomoya Okubo, Takahiro Hoshino, Shin’ ichi Mayekawa, Kojiro Shojima, Lianghua Shu, Richard Schwarz.
Item Response Theory: Inference about the model (36), Chair: Makato Sano, Friday 24th July, 9.30 - 10.50, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Xinhui Xiong, Lewis Charles, Wang Mingmei, Haruhiko Mitsunaga, Shin-ichi Mayekawa, Makoto Sano, David Hessen.
Nonparametric Item Response Theory (37), Chair: Timo Bechger, Friday 24th July, 11.30 - 12.50, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Hendrick Straat, L. Andries van der Ark, Klaas Sijtsma, Jesper Tijmstra, David J. Hessen, Peter G.M. van der Heijden, Rudy Ligtvoet, Wicher P. Bergsma, Wobbe P. Zijlstra.
Person fit analysis (38), Chair: Wim van der Linden, Tuesday 21st July, 10.50 - 12.10, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Sebastien Beland, Gilles Raiche, Patricia Brassard Dorantes, David Magis, Gilles Raiche, Jean-Guy Blais, Judith M. Conijn, Marcel A.L.M. van Assen, Wilco H.M. Emons, Klaas Sijtsma, Wim J. van der Linden.
Response Time models (39), Chair: Margo Jansen, Wednesday 22nd July, 11.45- 13.05, Lowercroft, School of Pythagoras. Jochen Ranger, Christof Schuster, Margot Jansen, Yulia Denisova, Yury Dodonov.
Measurement issues (40), Chair: Keith Markus, Tuesday 21st July, 15.25 - 16.45, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Keith A. Markus, Henk Kelderman, Gunter Maris.
Developing scales and diagnoses (41), Chair: Jay Verkuilen, Friday 24th July, 11.30 - 12.50, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. Kun-Shia Liu, Ying-Yao Cheng, Li-Ming Chen, Ching-Wen Hsueh, Ying-Yao Cheng, Kun-Shia Liu, Su-Hsiang Chung, Yih-Rou Chang, Jay Powell, Allan P. Clapp, Annouschka Laenen, Ariel Alonso, Geert Molenberghs, Tony Vangeneugden.
Goodness-of-fit: Item Response Theory and discrete data (42), Chair: Albertyo Maydeu-Olivares, Friday 24th July, 9.30 - 10.50, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Muhammad Khalid, Cees A. W. Glas, Katrin Kraus, Darrell Bock, Shelby Haberman, Alberto Maydeu-Olivares, Carlos García-Forero, Harry Joe.
Multiway/multimode analysis (43), Chair: Patrick Groenen, Wednesday 22nd July, 9.55 - 11.15, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Henk Kiers, Jos M.F. ten Berge, Tom Wilderjans, Eva Ceulemans, Iven Van Mechelen, Yoshio Takane, Zhidong Zhang, Kwanghee Jung, Heungsun Hwang.
Scaling methods (44), Chair: Willem Heiser, Thursday 23rd July, 9.40 - 11.00, Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building. Richard A. Faldowski, Yudan Chen Wang, Gui-Young Hong, Willem Heiser, Matthijs J. Warrens, Kensuke Okada, Kazuo Shigemasu, Takashi Murakami.
Statistical methodology (45), Chair: Wilco Emons, Thursday 23rd July, 11.30 - 12.50, Uppercroft, School of Pythagoras. Luisa Canal, Michael Smithson, Gerard van Breukelen, Hao Luo.
Exploratory data analysis (46), Chair: Henk Kiers, Wednesday 22nd July, 15.25 - 16.45, Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building. Michel van de Velden, Yoshio Takane, P.J.F. Groenen, J.C. Gower, van de Velden, Carolin Strobl, Ali Uenlue, Waqas Ahmed Malik.
Social and educational data analysis potpourri (47), Chair: Lianghua Shu, Wednesday 22nd July, 9.55 - 11.15, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. Michela Gnaldi, Maria Giovanna Ranalli, Brian Clauser, Melissa J. Margolis, Janet Mee, Dmitry Belov, Ronald D. Armstrong, Rolf Steyer.
Development and analysis of scales in education (48), Chair: Sayaka Arai, Friday 24th July, 9.30 - 10.50, Dirac Room , Fisher Building. Jyh-Sheng Lin, Yi-Ling Chen, Ying-Yao Cheng, Kun-Shia Liu, Hsueh-Pin Tsai, Satoshi Usami, Sayaka Arai, Shin-ichi Mayekawa.
Methodological potpourri (49), Chair: Marie Wiberg, Wednesday 22nd July, 11.45- 13.05, Dirac Room, Fisher Building. Marieke van Onna, Anton Béguin, Hsiu-Ting Yu, Brian P. Flaherty, Shing On Leung.
Poster Session One. Tuesday July 21st, 18.00 - 19.00, Foyer, Fisher Building. Goran Lazendic, Chuan-Ju Lin, Eunjung Lee, Won-Chan Lee, Norikazu Iwama, Hideki Toyoda, Kosuke Fukunaka, Marie-Anne Mittelhaëuser,