2015 MARC Conference
The Fifteenth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference:
Test Fairness in the New Generation of Large-Scale Assessment
- Jointly supported by the Maryland State Department of Education and the Maryland Assessment Research Center.
- Each topic will be given a one-hour block of time, including a 50-minute presentation by each speaker followed by 10 minutes of Q and A.
Presentation Schedule
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| Time | Title | Presenter(s) |
| 7:00-8:30 |
Registration and Breakfast |
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| 8:30-8:45 |
Welcome and Comments |
Hong Jiao (University of Maryland) |
| 8:45-9:45 | Resolving the paradox of rich performance tasks with implications for fairness | Robert Mislevy (ETS) |
| 9:45-10:45 | How to achieve comparability of testing across different modes? | Wim van der Linden (Pacific Metrics) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | The effect of compromised items on credentialing exam classification accuracy | Patrick Obregon and Ray Yan (FINRA) |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Considerations in making next gen assessment accessible and fair | Linda Zimmerman, Jan McSorley and Paul Grudnitski(Pearson) |
| 2:00-3:00 | Redesigning the SAT using principles of fairness and equity | Sherral Miller, Michael Walker, Lynn Letukas(College Board) |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15-4:15 | Test fairness in international assessments | Matthias von Davier (ETS) |
| 4:15-5:15 | Culture in fair assessment practices | Edynn Sato (Pearson) |
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| 7:00-8:30 |
Registration and Breakfast |
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| 8:30-9:30 | Contrasting various explanatory approaches to think about and analyze test data to address fairness: causal, contextual, ecological | Bruno D. Zumbo and Amery D. Wu (University of British Columbia) |
| 9:30-10:30 | Using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to explore differential item functioning:application to PISA 2009 reading | Daniel Bolt, Maritza Dowling, Yu-Shan Shih and Wei-Yin Loh (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45-11:45 | Fairness considerations in automated essay scoring | Mo Zhang, Neil Dorans, Chen Li and André Rupp (ETS) |
| 11:45-12:45 | Defining and Challenging Fairness in Tests: Key opportunities in test specifications, standard setting, and score interpretations | Christina Schneider, Karla Egan and Brian Gong (Center for Assessment) |
| 12:45-1:00 | Closing Comments | Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland) |