2017 MARC Conference
The Seventeenth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference:
Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Assessment
The following topics will be included in this conference:
(a) Automated Adaptive Testing
(b) Automated Scoring
(c) Automated Item Generation
(d) Automated Form Assembly
- 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 |
Generating Test Items for English Language Arts |
Mark Gierl & Hollis Lai (University of Alberta) |
| 9:45-10:45 |
Difficulty, Item and Response Modeling: An Intersection of AI and Assessment |
Issac Bejar & Michael Flor (Educational Testing Services) |
| 10:45-11:00 |
Break |
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| 11:00-12:00 |
Reconceptualizing Items: From Clones and Automatic Item Generation to Task Model Families |
Richard Luecht (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)& |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
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| 1:00-2:00 |
Estimating Person Characteristics from Voice, Speech, Language and Touch |
Jared Bernstein (Stanford University) & |
| 2:00-3:00 |
Addressing Literacy with Natural Language Processing |
Jill Burstein (Educational Testing Services) |
| 3:00-3:15 |
Break |
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| 3:15-4:15 |
Practical Considerations for Implementing Automated Scoring of Writing for Large-Scale Use |
Peter Foltz (Pearson and University of Colorado, Boulder) |
| 4:15-5:15 |
Constructing LOFT Item Pools with Linear Programming |
Jeffrey Patton & Ray Y. Yan (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) |
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| 7:00-8:30 |
Registration and Breakfast |
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| 8:30-9:30 |
Case Studies in Automated Test Assembly in Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory Contexts |
Luz Bay, David Chuah & Thomas P. Proctor (The College Board) |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Computerized Multistage Testing and its Applications |
Duanli Yan (Educational Testing Service) |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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| 10:45-11:45 |
An Intelligent CAT that Can Deal with Disengaged Test Taking |
Steven Wise (Northwest Evaluation Association) |
| 11:45-12:45 |
Differences in the Amount of Adaptation of Computerized Adaptive Tests, Stratified Adaptive Tests and Multistage Tests |
Mark D. Reckase, Unhee Ju & Sewon Kim (Michigan State University) |
| 12:45-1:00 |
Closing Comments |
Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland) |
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Automatic Item Generation with Artificial Intelligence: The AIG of AI, by AI, and for AI. (Note: This paper is not to be presented at the conference but will be included in a book based on the conference) |
Jaehwa Choi (George Washington University) |
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