Lecture
Time:
Randy Bennett to Present at Eighth Annual Buros/ETS Lecture
Date:
9:30 am
Teachers College Hall
Room: 250
1400 Vine St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: TEAC
The Buros Center for Testing, in collaboration with Educational Testing Service, is hosting the eighth installment of the annual Buros/ETS lecture series. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception at 11:00 a.m. in the Buros library.
The lecture series takes place once a year and brings a senior research scientist from Educational Testing Service to the UNL campus to speak on current assessment and testing issues. This year, Dr. Randy Bennett will be coming to Lincoln to give a presentation titled “Validity and Automated Essay Scoring: How Validation Can Go Wrong.”
The Hewlett Foundation’s Automated Student Assessment Prize competition found that machines were able to grade essays as well as, perhaps better than, human raters. But was that conclusion justifiable, either in principle or empirically? Bennett’s lecture will offer seven assertions about validity and automated essay scoring, using the Automated Student Assessment Prize competition to illustrate how validation can go badly wrong.
Bennett is Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. Since the 1980s, he has conducted research on integrating advances in the cognitive and learning sciences, technology, and measurement to create new approaches to assessment.
The lecture series takes place once a year and brings a senior research scientist from Educational Testing Service to the UNL campus to speak on current assessment and testing issues. This year, Dr. Randy Bennett will be coming to Lincoln to give a presentation titled “Validity and Automated Essay Scoring: How Validation Can Go Wrong.”
The Hewlett Foundation’s Automated Student Assessment Prize competition found that machines were able to grade essays as well as, perhaps better than, human raters. But was that conclusion justifiable, either in principle or empirically? Bennett’s lecture will offer seven assertions about validity and automated essay scoring, using the Automated Student Assessment Prize competition to illustrate how validation can go badly wrong.
Bennett is Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. Since the 1980s, he has conducted research on integrating advances in the cognitive and learning sciences, technology, and measurement to create new approaches to assessment.