Maryland Assessment Research Center (MARC)

2022 (Virtual) MARC Conference

The Twentieth Annual MARC Conference

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Psychometrics 

Conference will be hosted on Zoom, Nov. 3rd-4th, 2022

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Click here for info on the pre-conference workshop (Nov. 2nd, 2022.  9am - 4pm)

Live streaming video will be available online after the conference for repeated viewing.

 

Presentation Schedule

* Eastern standard time (EST)
November 3rd (Thursday)

Morning Session I

8:50-9:00am

Welcome and Introduction

Hong Jiao (University of Maryland)

9:00-9:50am

The item factory: intelligent automation in support of test development at scale

MARCES Nov 2022-Alina.pptx

Alina von Davier, Andrew Runge, Yigal Attali, Yena Park, Kevin Yancey, Geoff LaFlair, André Horie (Duolingo)

10:00-10:50am

Applications of transformer neural networks in assessment, from item development to scoring

2022_MARC_presentation_transformers_Lottridge.pptx

Susan Lottiridge (Cambium)

11:00-11:50am

Leveraging process data analytics, natural language processing and machine learning to support remotely proctored assessments

MARC2022_Analytics_AI_JHao.pdf

Jiangang Hao (Education Testing Service)
Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

1:00-1:50pm

Mending the mess babel has left us with: cross-lingual automatic coding in international large-scale assessments

2022-11-03.MARCC_compiled-Fabian_0.pdf

Fabian Zehner (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education)

2:00-2:50pm

Estimating contextual word-level item parameters using BERT in an IRT framework

marc-2022-bert-irt-public.pptx

Kevin Yancey, Andrew Runge, JR Lockwood, Geoff LaFlair (Duolingo)

3:00-3:50pm

Keeping humans in the loop when implementing augmented intelligence solutions for common test development challenges

MARC_Swygert_Micir_102822.pdf

Kimberly Swygert, Ian Micir (National Board of Medical Examiners)

 

November 4th (Friday)

Morning Session

9:00-9:50am

Data-driven item selection and generation in assessments and learning

datadriven-Andrew Lan.pdf

Andrew Lan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

10:00-10:50am

From adaptive testing to personalized adaptive testing: applications of machine learning algorithms

MARC2022_OkanBulut.pdf

Okan Bulut (University of Alberta)

11:00-11:50am

Leveraging process data in large-scale assessments with sequence mining

Process Data_MARC_QiweiHe_v1.pdf

Qiwei He (Education Testing Service)

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

1:00-1:50pm

Applying machine learning to assess next generation science learning

Zhai_Maryland-ML for NGSA_2022_10_27.pdf

Xiaoming Zhai (University of Georgia)

2:00-2:50pm

An AI-based platform for real time assessment, scaffolding, and alerting on students’ science practices.

Gobert presentation for MARC 2022.pdf

Janice Gobert (Rutgers University)

2:50-3:00pm Closing remarks Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland)