The Norwegian psychometrics gathering

Steffen Grønneberg and Ulf Henning Olsson invite to «The Norwegian Psychometrics Gathering» 14th of December 2022 at BI. This is a collaborative project between department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, department of Economics and CEMO (Centre for Educational Measurement) at University of Oslo.

Preliminary program

• 12.00 – 13.00: Lunch
• 13.00-14.00: Applications of Psychometrics:

1. Albert Satorra (UPF/BI) - "Consequences of measurement error and how to deal with it"
2. Dominique Kost (OsloMet) - "Measuring psychological job control: one or two-dimensional construct?"
3. Malte Runge (OsloMet)- “Modeling Motive Activation in Implicit Motive Tests: A Psychometric Analysis Using Dynamic Thurstonian Item Response Theory”

• 14.15-15.15: Estimation Methods:

1. David Kreiberg (BI) - "A Faster Procedure for Estimating SEMs Applying Minimum Distance Estimators With a Fixed Weight Matrix"
2. Njål Foldnes (UIS) - "How robust is ordinal SEM?"
3. Björn Andersson (UiO, CEMO) - "Fast estimation of longitudinal generalized linear latent variable models for ordinal, count, and continuous data"

• 15.30–16.30: Psychometric Theory:

1. Jonas Moss (BI) - "On Cronbach's Alpha"
2. Letty Koopman (UiO, CEMO) - "Nonparametric item response theory for multilevel test data"
3. Kseniia Marcq (UiO, CEMO) "Gender differences in item nonresponse in the PISA 2018 student questionnaire"

A social event is planned for the evening.