Psychometric Society Meeting in Cambridge: Symposia

Cambridge, England

Jelte Wicherts, (Chair) Department of Psychological Methods, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Annemarie Zand Scholten, Denny Borsboom, Conan Dolan, Iris Smits, Harrie Vorst, Sophie van der Sluis, Danielle Posthuma and Matthijs Verhage. Issues related to the study of measurement invariance in experimental psychology, personality research, and genetics.

Ulf Kröhne and Rolf Steyer (Chairs), German Institute for International Educational Research, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany Christiane Fiege, Steffi Pohl, Peter Steiner, Jens Eisermann, Renate Soellner, Thomas Cook and Benjamin Nagengast. Advances in the analysis of causal effects.

Frank Rijmen (Chair), Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA and Edward Ip, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA , Sun-Joo Cho, Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Roberta Varriale, Olga Lukočienė, and Jeroen Vermunt. Latent variable models for complex data structures.

Casper Albers (Chair), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, UK, Mike Powell, Frank Critchley and John Gower. Topics in Constrained Optimisation.

Wim van er Linden (Chair), CTB/McGraw-Hill, Monteray, USA, Johannes Hartig, Claudia Harsch, Jana Höhler, Cees Glas, Hanneke Geerlings, Andreas Frey and Nicki-Nils Seitz. Models and designs for tests with explanatory rules for their item difficulties.

Denny Borsboom (Chair), Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Kees-Jan Kan, Rogier Kievit, Conor Dolan, Han van der Maars, Jan-Willem Romeijn, Lourens Waldorp, Steven Scholte, Angélique Cramer. Do our rulers still rule? Foundational issues in psychological applications of psychometric theory.

Heungsum Hwang (Chair), Department of Psychology, McGil University, Montreal, Canada, Michel Tenehaus, Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Irene Lu, Roland Thomas and Earnest Kwan. Component based Structural Equation Modeling.

Ernesto San Martin (Chair), Department of Statistics & Measurement Center MIDE UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Janier Revuelta, Gunter Maris, Timo Bechger, Alejandro Jara, Jean-Marie Rolin and Paul de Boeck. Identification Problems in Psychometrics.