Delwin Carter, University of California Santa Barbara, and Maura O’Riordan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Hello all!
There are a lot of exciting things happening with GSIC that we can’t wait to tell you about.
First, our virtual brown bags are officially starting, with the first live presentation happening Tuesday October 1 at 1:30pm PST! If you can’t join this one live, we will be recording these presentations and posting them to the ITEMS portal on the NCME website. Our first presenters are Robert Cook and Daniel Lewis giving a presentation entitled Embedded Standard Setting: Aligning standard setting methodology with contemporary assessment design principles. We hope you can join us and be on the look-out for the next one… there will be a new presentation happening every month!
We are happy to tell you that NCME has decided to give graduate students who are members of an NCME committee a free ticket to the NCME Breakfast, Business Meeting, and Presidential Address in San Francisco. Additionally, workshops at this year’s conference will be half priced for all graduate students. These are great perks that we should all benefit from!
Finally, please keep in touch with us on a more regular basis through our social media! NCME Graduate Students have a facebook page that you should “like” in order to stay up to date on all the new happenings. We have started a new initiative called Humans of Measurement (modeled after Humans of New York) where we will be highlighting a human in our field each week… starting with our GSIC members. Check out the facebook page to learn some fun facts about us and maybe get your own chance to be highlighted! We love to hear what you are working on, and if you tag us in a measurement related post, we might even share it!
We hope your academic year is off to a productive and positive start!
Maura O’Riordan (moriordan@umass.edu) and Delwin Carter (delwincarter@ucsb.edu)