CBI Patient Reported Outcomes
12/4/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC has signed on as a sponsor for the 10th Forum on Patient Reported Outcomes hosted by CBI in Philadelphia, PA on May 7 – 8, 2013. See the conference website for more information.
Adaptest
11/7/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC has agreed to terms on a multi-year, multi-study contract with one of the world’s largest medical device manufacturers. The company will use VPG’s web-based adaptive testing software, Adaptest, for data collection in clinical trials.
College Board
10/28/12
Dr. Michael Edwards accepts appointment as chair of College Board’s Digital Testing Psychometric Advisory Team.
flexMIRT™
10/19/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC has licensed their multidimensional, multilevel IRT software, flexMIRT™, to one of the leading law exam developers.
flexMIRT™
10/16/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC has licensed their multidimensional, multilevel IRT software, flexMIRT™, to one of the Midwest’s largest statistical consulting companies.
The Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology
10/13/12
The Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP) awarded Dr. Li Cai the Cattell Early Career Research Award. Named after Raymond B. Cattell, an eminent psychologist and a founder of SMEP, this award is given annually to honor an early-career researcher who has made outstanding contributions to multivariate experimental psychology. As an honoree, Dr. Li Cai will deliver an award address at the annual SMEP meeting in 2013.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
9/27/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC, as part of a collaborative research team, was awarded the Metrics Development Support Services contract by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This contract is a multi-year, multi-stage project which will produce metrics for financial well-being and related concepts.
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
8/31/12
President Obama today announced the recipients of this year’s Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Dr. Li Cai was one of the recipients of the award, which the White House describes as “the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.” For more information on this award see the White House press release or the CRESST press release. We at VPG offer our sincerest congratulations to Li.
flexMIRT™
7/25/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC has licensed their multidimensional, multilevel IRT software, flexMIRT™, to an evaluation association located in the Northwest.
College Board
7/16/12
Dr. Michael Edwards named 2012-2013 Visiting Scholar at the College Board. Starting in August, of 2012 Dr. Edwards will be spending time at the College Board’s Newtown, PA office as their visiting scholar in residence for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Psychometric Society
7/12/12
Dr. Li Cai gives multiple talks at the Psychometric Society meeting on Statistical Foundations of Item Response Theory
flexMIRT™
7/5/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC has licensed their multidimensional, multilevel IRT software, flexMIRT™, to one of world’s largest psychological assessment companies.
flexMIRT™
6/19/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC has licensed their multidimensional, multilevel IRT software, flexMIRT™, to a large psychological and educational consulting company in the Northwest.
National Assessment Center at Beijing Normal University
6/29/12
Dr. Li Cai presents on Item Response Theory (IRT) and IRT Software at the National Assessment Center at Beijing Normal University.
Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP)
5/11/12
Dr. Edwards was elected to the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP).
A User’s Guide to Item Response Theory
5/4/12
Drs. Michael Edwards and Li Cai have signed a contract with Guilford Press to write a new book on item response theory called “A User’s Guide to Item Response Theory”. The book will cover a wide variety of topics in item response theory (IRT), from the most basic to the very complex. It will feature an action-oriented approach to IRT with the understanding that most people reading a book about IRT want to be able to competently perform analyses once they are done reading a particular chapter (or set of chapters). In each chapter, the authors will describe the problem at hand, briefly overview other solutions (and provide appropriate references), but then focus on the best way to handle the problem at hand and work fully through examples. The text will be accompanied by extensive worked examples on a website which will have sample data sets, syntax from several IRT programs, and additional references and resources.
Multivariate Behavioral Research
4/14/12
Dr. Li Cai accepts appointment as an associate editor of Multivariate Behavioral Research.
NCME in Vancouver, Canada
4/12/12
Dr. Li Cai presents on Item Response Theory and Multilevel Modeling at NCME in Vancouver, Canada.
flexMIRT™
4/2/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC is pleased to announce the release of flexMIRT™. flexMIRT™ is a new multiple categorical, multi-group, multilevel, multidimensional item response theory modeling and test scoring software program designed for research and operational use.
Department of Psychology at UC Davis
3/29/12
Dr. Li Cai presents on Multilevel Item Response Theory for the Department of Psychology at UC Davis.
Adaptest
3/28/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC is proud to be expanding its services into Europe. Vector Psychometric Group, LLC signs a contract to collect data for clinical trials using our web-based Adaptest system in Europe.
Safe Harbor self-certification with the Department of Commerce
3/1/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC has completed Safe Harbor self-certification with the Department of Commerce.
We are now certified by the Department of Commerce to collect and transmit personal/sensitive data within and between the U.S.A., Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom under the guidelines of the US-EU-Switzerland Safe Harbor Program (http://export.gov/safeharbor/).
Association for Test Publishers
2/27/12
Dr. Li Cai presents flexMIRT™, our new, cutting-edge IRT software program, to the Association for Test Publishers at the their Innovations in Testing Meeting in Palm Springs, CA.
American Institute for Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
2/6/12
Dr. Michael Edwards accepts appointment on the American Institute for Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Psychometric Oversight Committee.
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing (CRESST)
1/11/12
Dr. Li Cai accepts appointment as co-director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA.
CBI
11/14/12
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC co-sponsored a workshop with Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. entitled “Manage and Better Utilize PRO Data with an IVR/IWR System” at CBI’s “Leverage IVR/IWR to Collect and Analyze PRO Data, Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs” conference held in Philadelphia, PA.
Full-time at Vector Psychometric Group
10/1/11
Dr. Carrie Houts joins the Vector Psychometric Group, LLC team as a full time psychometric consultant. Welcome aboard, Carrie!
Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP)
7/15/12
Dr. Li Cai was elected to the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP).
Full-time at Vector Psychometric Group
7/1/11
Chris Chapman joins the Vector Psychometric Group, LLC team as a full time System’s Architect and programmer consultant. Welcome aboard, Chris!
Adaptest
6/27/11
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC is proud to be expanding its services into Canada. Vector Psychometric Group, LLC signs a contract with a contact lens manufacture to collect data using our web-based Adaptest system on Canadian’s experiences of Comfort and Vision with contact lenses.
flexMIRT™
4/2/11
Vector Psychometric Group, LLC released our multilevel, multidimensional IRT software for Beta testing. This new software package features cutting- edge estimation methods for a wide array of complex psychometric models.
Tennessee General Assembly Education Committees
3/22/11
Dr. R.J. Wirth provides expert testimony to the Tennessee General Assembly Education Committees regarding a long-term study of the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program.
University of New Brunswick
8/29/11 – 8/31/11
Dr. Michael Edwards will be giving a 2.5 day short course on IRT at the University of New Brunswick. For registration information click on the “Training” link at https://ksiresearch.com/
International Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Hong Kong
7/19/11 – 7/22/11
Dr. Li Cai presented “The Lord-Wingersky algorithm after 25+ years: Version 2.0 for hierarchical item factor models” and Dr. Michael Edwards presented “A new procedure for detecting departures from local independence in item response models”.
Chinese Ministry of Education
July, 2011
Dr. Li Cai and Dr. Michael Edwards presented at a workshop organized by the Chinese Ministry of Education to discuss psychometrics in relation to the Chinese national educational assessment (NAEQ – National Assessment of Education Quality).
2011 Anne Anastasi Early Career Award
8/6/11
Dr. Li Cai was awarded the 2011 Anne Anastasi Early Career Award from Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, & Statistics) of the American Psychological Association (APA). As a part of this honor, Dr. Cai gave an invited talk at the 2011 meeting of the APA in Washington, DC.
The Ohio State University
The Board of Trustees at The Ohio State University has approved Dr. Michael Edwards for promotion to Associate Professor (with tenure) effective October 1, 2011.
University of California, Los Angeles
7/1/11
Dr. Li Cai was promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) at UCLA.
Full-time at Vector Psychometric Group
4/1/11
Dr. R. J. Wirth resigns from the University of Washington’s School of Medicine to oversee day-to-day operations at Vector Psychometric Group, LLC
2011 Fred Brown Research Award
5/3/11
Dr. Michael Edwards was awarded the 2011 Fred Brown Research award from the Department of Psychology at the Ohio State University for his paper A Markov chain Monte Carlo approach to confirmatory item factor analysis published in 2010 in Psychometrika.