Quantitative Psychology The 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Asheville, North Carolina, 2016

. High Performance Psychometrics -  New Results on an Improved Algorithm Estimating Generalized Latent Variable Models.- 2. Properties of second-order  exponential models as multidimensional item response models.- 3. Pseudo-likelihood Estimation of Multidimensional Response Models:Polytomous and Dichotomous Items.- 4. Fitting Graded Response Models to Data with Nonnormal Latent Traits.- 5. An Extention of Rudner-based Consistency and Accuracy Indices for Multidimensional Item Response Theory.- 6. Supporting diagnostic inferences using significance tests for subtest scores.- 7. A comparison of two MCMC algorithms for the 2PL IRT model.- 8. Similar DIFs: Differential Item Functioning and Factorial Invariance for Scales with Seven ("Plus or Minus Two") Response Alternatives.- 9. Finally! A Valid Test of Configural Invariance Using Permutation in Multiple-Group CFA.- 10. Outcries of Dual Scaling: The Key is Duality.- 11. The Most Predictable Criterion with Fallible Data.- 12. Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling of Cognitive Similarities Among Occupational Categories.- 13. On the Relationship Between Squared Canonical Correlation and Matrix Norm.- 14. Breaking through the sum score barrier.- 15. Overestimation of Reliability by Guttman's Lambda 4, Lambda 5, and Lambda 6, and the Greatest Lower Bound.- 16. The Performance of Five Reliability Estimates at Multidimensional Test Situations.- 17. Weighted Guttman errors: Handling ties and two-level data.- 18. Measuring Cognitive Processing Capabilities in Solving Mathematical Problems.- 19. Parameter Constraints of the Reduced RUM as a Logit Model.- 20. Hypothesis Testing for Item Consistency Index in Cognitive Diagnosis Assessment.- 21. The irreplaceability of a reachability matrix.- 22. Ensuring test quality over time by monitoring the equating transformations.- 23. An illustration of the Epanechnikov and Adaptive continuization methods in Kernel equating.- 24. (The Potential for) Accumulated Linking Error in Trend Measurement in Large-Scale Educational Assessments.- 25. IRT observed-score equating with the non-equivalent groups with covariates design.- 26. Causal Inference with Observational Multilevel Data: Investigating Selection and Outcome Heterogeneity.- 27. Non-Equivalent Groups With Covariates Design Using Propensity Scores for Kernel Equating.- 28. A mixture partial credit model analysis using a language-based covariate.- 29. Investigating Constraint-weighted Item Selection Procedures in Unfolding CAT.- 30. Rating Scale Format and Item Sensitivity to Response Style in Large-Scale Assessment.- 31. Mode Comparability Studies for a High-Stakes Testing Program.- 32. Power analysis for t-test with non-normal data and unequal variances.- 33. Statistical Power for One-Way ANOVA with Binary or Count Data.- 34. Bayesian robust estimation in causal two-stage-least-squares modeling with instrumental variables.- 35. Measuring grit among first-generation college students: A psychometric analysis.- 36. A Comparison of Item Parameter and Standard Error Recovery Across Different R Packages for Popular Unidimensional IRT Models

Jeffrey A. Douglas is a professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He conducts research in latent variable analysis with a particular emphasis on item response models and cognitive diagnosis models with applications in educational testing.