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Jim Soland

@jsoland

Assistant Prof. @UVA & Research Fellow @NWEA. I study how (mis)uses of tests/surveys affect decisions in ed. & psychology. Father of two. Opinions mine.

Charlottesville, VA Katılım Ağustos 2011
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UVA School of Education and Human Development
UVA School of Education and Human Development@UVAEdu·
Congratulations to UVA EHD's Jim Soland on receiving the 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)! The award recognizes faculty who exemplify the highest standards of teaching, scholarship, and service. ow.ly/3kzh50UBPsP
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Dan McNeish
Dan McNeish@dmcneish18·
Couldn't find much on how to deal with MNAR missingness in intensive longitudinal data, so this preprint was an attempt to repurpose some MNAR ideas from growth modeling into DSEM to handle MNAR missingness (with only a few extra lines of Mplus code) osf.io/preprints/psya…
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Jim Soland@jsoland·
Check out this new article of mine on IRT models for quasi-experimental designs. Item Response Theory Models for Difference-in-Difference Estimates (and Whether They Are Worth the Trouble) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Dan McNeish
Dan McNeish@dmcneish18·
New print w/@MelissaGWolf on dynamic fit index cutoffs Our software can now derive customized cutoffs for ANY covariance structure model (SEM, mediation, bifactor, etc) and supports normal, non-normal, categorical, & missing data (and any estimator) 1/15 psyarxiv.com/4r9fq
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Andrew Ho
Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo·
Re-upping my NAEP Day threads for another NAEP Day. What's new? I expected signs of "recovery" (in the sense that 2020-2023 trends would be "less bad" than 2020-2022 and 2019-2022 trends). But it's worse. For those trying, be patient, give grace. For those ignoring, reprioritize.
Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo

Let's talk "misNAEPery": Common misues of #NAEP results. Here are 3 types of misNAEPery to look out for on Monday's "NAEP Day": 1) correlation-is-causation (@EduGlaze's original definition) 2) psychometric misNAEPery 3) one-true-outcome misNAEPery. 🧵 1/

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Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo·
Like SAT/ACT scores, many people think I and other measurement folks @NCME38 would be resisting the ongoing attack on scores and indices. But we’re all for it! We know the fallibility of single-score systems better than anyone! Just don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
NYT Health@NYTHealth

Body mass index (or B.M.I.), which has long been criticized as a misleading health indicator, should no longer be used in isolation, according to a new announcement by the American Merdical Association. nyti.ms/3PjlhFb

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Laura Stapleton
Laura Stapleton@LauraMStapleton·
Are you an undergrad who is quant curious?!? Join us next week! Please retweet! tinyurl.com/4992sej2
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quantitudethepodcast@quantitudepod·
S4E23. QuantCrit: A Conversation With Christen Priddie buzzsprout.com/639103 This week @ChristenPriddie of Indiana Univ. helps us learn about QuantCrit: foundations, purpose, and how it can enrich the quantitative process to which we might’ve become a little *too* accustomed.
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Brooks Bowden
Brooks Bowden@abrooksbowden·
Job alert! We are very excited to bring on a new colleague in early literacy @PennGSE. Please share this open search widely and feel free to reach out with any questions!
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Kim De Roover
Kim De Roover@Kim_De_Roover·
I am hiring! For a 6-year PhD-position in quantitative psychology that also involves teaching: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… Follow me f you are interested but don't speak Dutch, because I have at least two more PhD-positions opening soon. Please share! Thx!
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Andrew Ho
Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo·
Saturday at 8am (good morning!), Part 2 of our debate on "Foundational Competencies in Educational Measurement" continues, focusing on whether our framework is clear, compelling, and complete. #NCME23 higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/NCME/4b7590fc-…
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Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo

ICYMI, a video of our @NCME38 "Foundational Competencies" debate is here: vimeo.com/813353574. See you for Part 2 of the debate, focusing on the conceptual framework, at 8am in Chicago on 4/15, with @HamiltonLauraS, Alison Cheng, and David Torres Irribarra. #NCME23 #AERA23

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Luke Miratrix
Luke Miratrix@LMiratrix·
I'm hiring a 1yr postdoc for research on stat methodology for using text in randomized controlled trials: apply.interfolio.com/123767 Please don't self-select out! Long list of papers & "elite" schools aren't required. I'll read every application looking for potential. Please repost.
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Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo·
ICYMI, a video of our @NCME38 "Foundational Competencies" debate is here: vimeo.com/813353574. See you for Part 2 of the debate, focusing on the conceptual framework, at 8am in Chicago on 4/15, with @HamiltonLauraS, Alison Cheng, and David Torres Irribarra. #NCME23 #AERA23
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Andrew Ho@AndrewDeanHo

This Thursday, 4-5:30ET, our @NCME38 Task Force on Foundational Competencies welcomes our first debate, at the #NCME23 virtual conference, with @DebbieDurrence, Leslie Keng, and VP Michael Walker providing commentary on our final report: ncme.org/about/news/edu… @DerekCBriggs

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