FREMO 2025 Schedule

Registration

The registration desk will be located at Helga Engs hus near room U36 on September 2nd from 15:30 to 16:30, and at Helga Engs hus near the Auditorium 2 on September 3rd and 4th between 08:15 and 10:00.

Oral presentation

Each presenter will be allocated a total of 15 minutes for their presentation. Following your presentation, there will be a question and answer session, allowing approximately 3 minutes for inquiries from the audience.

Abstracts

The abstracts for the presentations can be downloaded here.

Conference Schedule

Day 0, Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Time

Event

Presenter

Location

09:00-12:00

Workshop: Standard and Advanced Methods for Meta-Analysis with R

Wolfgang Viechtbauer

Room U36

12:00-13:00

Lunch

Blindern

13:00-16:00

Workshop: Standard and Advanced Methods for Meta-Analysis with R Wolfgang Viechtbauer

Room U36

Day 1, Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Time

Event

Presenter

Location

08:45-09:00

Welcome

 

Aud 2

09:00-10:00

Keynote: Measurement in Adaptive Learning Environments: Challenges and Innovations

Speaker: Maria Bolsinova

Chair: Esther Ulitzsch

Aud 2

10:00-10:15

Break

   

10:15-11:30

Parallel session 1A: Innovative assessments

Chair: Alf Inge Wang

U31

 

Dynamic Testing of Writing

Christopher Wheadon

 
 

Machine Scoring of Open-Ended Items

Angela Verschoor

 
 

Are LLMs (Really) Ideological? An IRT-based Analysis and Alignment Tool for Perceived Socio-Economic Bias in LLMs

Michael Radloff

 
 

Evaluating and Monitoring Mathematics Teaching Models in Preservice Teacher Education: A Bayesian Comparative Judgment Approach

Eugenio Chandia

 

10:15-11:30

Parallel session 1B: Aberrant response behavior

Chair: Jianan Chen

U35

 

An Experimental Study on the Impact of Survey Stakes on Response Inconsistency in Mixed-Worded Scales

Evi Konstantinidou

 
 

Reducing calibration bias for person fit assessment by mixture model expansion

Johan Braeken

 

10:15-11:30

Parallel session 1C: Item response theory

Chair: Anna Brown

U36

 

Novel Methods to Detecting and Adjusting Measurement Non-Invariance Across Large-Number of Groups Defined by Multiple Demographic Variables

Chun Wang

 
 

IRTorch: Item Response Theory with Python

Joakim Wallmark

 
 

Matching Dominant Trait Preferences (MDTP): A New Method of Scoring Multidimensional Forced-Choice Questionnaires

Dimiter Dimitrov

 
 

A Bifactor Thurstonian IRT Model for Multidimensional Forced-choice Questionnaires with Negative Wording Effect

Chia-Wen Chen

 

11:30-12:45

Lunch

   

12:45-14:00

Parallel session 2A: Longitudinal modeling

Chair: Chun Wang

U31

 

The Reliabilities of Value-Added Estimates in Education are (Usually) Upwardly Biased: The Role of Cluster-by-Item Interactions

Joshua Gilbert

 
 

Modeling Cycles, Trends and Time-Varying Effects in Dynamic Structural Equation Models with Regression Splines

Øystein Sørensen

 
 

Optimal Test Design for Estimation of Mean Ability Growth

Jonas Bjermo

 
 

Using Bayesian dynamic IRT models to monitor ability growth

Ellinor Fackle Fornius

 

12:45-14:00

Parallel session 2B: Grading and scoring

Chair: Maria Bolsinova

U36

 

Comparing the Difficulty of Elective Subjects in Norwegian High School

Sverre Ofstad

 
 

Predictive validity aspects of Swedish national test grades on subject specific final grades for sociodemographic classifications of students

Ida Rudell

 
 

Leveraging Generative AI for Automated Essay Scoring: Enhancing Psychological Measurement in Students

Joe Watson

 
 

Elo estimated abilities with unknown difficulties

Karl Sigfrid

 

14:00-14:15

Break

   

14:15-15:15

Parallel session 3A: Response time modeling

Chair: Johan Braeken

U31

 

Enhancing Mathematical Fluency Assessment Through Joint Hierarchical Modeling

Niek Frans

 
 

Predictors of response-time effort using data from the PISA 2015 assessment

Michalis Michaelides

 

14:15-15:15

Parallel session 3B: Cognitive diagnosis models

Chair: Chia-Wen Chen

U35

 

A Generalized Additive Partial-Mastery Cognitive Diagnosis Model

Camilo Cárdenas-Hurtado

 
 

Enhancing Large-Scale Mathematical Assessments: Integrating Cognitive Diagnostic Models with Hierarchical Attribute Structures for Improved Student Diagnostics

Farshad Effatpanah

 
 

Personalized practice for summative assessment using recommender systems: evaluating learning gains and student experience

Eva de Schipper

 

14:15-15:15

Parallel session 3C: Scale construction and development

Chair: Yuriko Sosa Paredes

U36

 

Optimal item calibration with the R-package optical when the examinees’ abilities are uncertain

Frank Miller

 
 

Development of a Computerized Adaptive Test with Multi-Stage Design for Educational Diagnosis

Gisele Magarotto Machado

 

15:15-15:30

Break

   

15:30-16:30

Keynote: Game-Based Learning: The Why, The How, and The What

Speaker: Alf Inge Wang

Chair: Johan Braeken

Aud 2

19:00-22:00

Conference dinner

 

Eik Annen Etage

Day 2, Thursday, September 4, 2025

 

Time

Event

Presenter

Location

09:00-10:00

Keynote: Measuring What Matters: Harmonizing Psychometric and Econometric Approaches in Education

Speaker: Rolf Strietholt

Chair: Ronny Scherer

Aud 2

10:00-10:15

Break

   

10:15-11:30

Parallel session 4A: Inferring trends with large-scale assessments

Chair: Kseniia Marcq

U31

 

Investigating long-term trends with international large-scale assessments: The example of gender gaps in reading achievement and reading behavior

Isa Steinmann

 
 

Trend estimation in the Norwegian National Tests

Björn Andersson

 
 

Linking the First, Second and Third IEA Science Studies

Yuriko Sosa Paredes

 
 

Inequalities in Norwegian Education: A Multi-Method, Multi-Cohort, and Multi-Domain Analysis from 1995 to 2023

Trude Nilsen

 

10:15-11:30

Parallel session 4B: Computerized adaptive testing

Chair: Niek Frans

U35

 

Traditional progressive tests with stopping rules from Computerized Adaptive Testing: Do potential advantages outweigh added complexity?

Jianan Chen

 
 

Using Latent-class Sumscore Computerized Adaptive Testing (LSCAT) for screening

Anastasios Psychogyiopoulos

 
 

Optimising Multistage Screening Decisions: Comparing IRT-Based Models and Cut-Score Selection Methods for Speech and Language Therapy Assessment

Kondwani Kajera Mughogho

 

10:15-11:30

Parallel session 4C: Validity of score interpretations

Chair: Lu Zhang

U36

 

Multidimensional item response modeling of the general mental ability test battery in the Norwegian Armed Forces

Fredrik Helland-Riise

 
 

Revisiting the issue of gender: Potential implications of format change because of digitalization – experiences from the Swedish National Tests in Social Studies

Arne Löfstedt

 
 

The Teacher License Test on Physics (TLT-Physics): Dimensionality Analysis and Measurement Invariance across Gender

Fathima Jaffari

 

11:30-12:45

Lunch

   

12:45-14:00

Parallel session 5A: Non-cognitive constructs

Chair: Trude Nilsen

U31

 

Measurement invariance across grades in joy of reading

Simon Skov Fougt

 
 

Psychometric properties of the Parental Stress Scale (PSS), evaluated using Item Response Theory

 

Katharina Buß

 

12:45-14:00

Parallel session 5B: Equating and linking

Chair: Björn Andersson

U35

 

Calculating bias when anchor tests are used in test score equating

Marie Wiberg

 
 

Impact of Differential Item Functioning in Anchor Test on Test Equating Accuracy

Inga Laukaityte

 
 

Designing equivalent test items: Insights from the development of the New Swedish Enlistment Battery

Jeanette Melin

 

12:45-14:00

Parallel session 5C: International large-scale assessments

Chair: Rolf Strietholt

U36

 

The risks and perils of cherry picking results from international large-scale educational assessments: Nordic students cannot do basic fractions?

Anne-Catherine Lehre

 
 

The Relation Between Teacher Satisfaction And Student Achievement (PIRLS): A Meta-Analytical Big Data Study Across Time

Ceren Mutluer

 
 

From Framework to Functionality: A Cross-Country Analysis of PISA 2018 Reading Assessment Framework's Item Features as Determinants of Item Difficulty

Kseniia Marcq

 

14:00-14:15

Break

   

14:15-15:15

Keynote: Measuring individual differences with relative-to-self (ipsative) questions

Speaker: Anna Brown

Chair: Björn Andersson

Aud 2

15:15-15:30

Closing remarks

   

 

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