Psychometric Society 2016

Using the app, you’ll be able to browse the 2016 program schedule, build your own itinerary, read profiles on the speakers, and view the maps of the hotel. You can also read the talk and poster abstracts, view general event information and get timely updates through our Twitter feed.

For over eighty years, the Psychometric Society, an international organization, has worked to promote the development of psychology as a quantitative rational science, involving the formulation of hypotheses in mathematical form, their development into a consistent quantitative psychological theory, and quantitative tests of the agreement between theory and experimental data. The Society also publishes a journal, Psychometrika, and will celebrating its 80th year of publication in 2016.

The Psychometric Society annual meeting provides opportunities for members and nonmembers alike to attend paper and poster presentations by members of the Society. This year’s annual meeting will also feature a number of keynote and invited speakers.

The 2016 Keynote Speakers include Roderick Little, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA; Jeroen Vermunt, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Xiao-Li Meng, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, MA, USA. Invited speakers include Wim J. van der Linden, Pacific Metrics Corporation, Monterey, CA, USA (2016 Psychometric Society Career Award), David Magis, Department of Education, University of Liège, Belgium (2016 Psychometric Society Early Career Award). The presidential address will be given by Terry Ackerman, Department of Educational Research Methodology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.

To register for IMPS 2016 or to learn more about the Psychometric Society, visit www.psychometricsociety.org.