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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium 2009 (PROMS 2009) Hong Kong, to be held in Hong Kong on 28, 29 & 30 July 2009, with pre-conference workshops scheduled on 27 July 2009 and post-conference workshops scheduled on 31 July 2009 and 3-7 August 2009.

The Centre for Assessment Research and Development (CARD) and the Department of Educational Psychology, Counselling and Learning Needs (EPCL) of The Hong Kong Institute of Education are delighted to have the opportunity to co-host the scientific event for PROMS 2009 HK. We count on your participation to make this event successful.

PROMS 2009 HK focuses on recent advances of objective measurement. It aims to provide an international forum for discourse on the latest research in using Rasch measurement as a tool for scientific progress. You are invited to join with a panel of distinguished researchers and other practitioners to share their expertise and your experiences in objective measurement.

Hong Kong is the host city for PROMS 2009 HK. We promise you memorable experiences in this vibrant international city of the Asia Pacific where East meets West.

We look forward to welcoming you to Hong Kong.

Magdalena Mo Ching MOK & Wen Chung WANG,

Conference Co-Chairs, PROMS 2009 HK

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Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium 2009 (PROMS 2009) Hong Kong Pre-conference Workshops (27 July 2009)

Conference (28, 29 & 30 July 2009)

Post-conference Workshops (31 July 2009 & 3-7 August 2009)

 

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Awards:

PROMS 2009 Outstanding Paper Awards for graduate students

 

The aim of the award is to encourage graduate students to submit high quality papers. The author(s) of an award winning paper will receive a HK$1000 scholarship and a certificate.

 

Winners:

Mr. Chi Wen CHIEN

Mr. Yi Hung LIN

Ms. Oon Pey TEE

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PROMS 2009 HK Paper and powerpoint sharing:

 

The task-specific metacognitive awareness of reading strategy : Comparing partial
credit model and rating scale model

Guei-Lin Chang, Pi-Hsia Hung

Graduate Institute of Measurement and Statistics in NUTN, Taiwan

 

Constructing a linear Rasch measure of student engagement in classroom learning

Associate Professor Rob Cavanagh

School of Education Curtin University of Technology

 

Development and Validation of Learning Attitude Scale

Hsiao-Chi Ho, Ying-Yao Cheng, Chia-Chi Wang, Yi-ling Chen

National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

 

The Equivalency of Item Difficulty Structure Between Genders Using Regression & SEM Analysis

Chih-Chao Hu, Bor-Yaun Twu

National University of Tainan, TAIWAN

 

Development and Validation of School Bullying Scales

Ying-Yao Cheng, Kun-Shia Liu, Li-Ming Chen, Ching-Wen Hsueh

National Sun Yat-sen University , Taiwan

 

Gender Difference in Economics Proficiency between College Students

Tillotson P.C. LI

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

The Chinese U. of Hong Kong-Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Community College

 

Assessing Differential Item Functioning using Mantel-Haenszel method with Constant Item Method

Pei-Ru, Huang

National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan

 

Guo-Wei Sun, Ching-Lin Shih

National Taichung University, Taiwan

 

A Scale Purification Procedure to Likelihood Ratio Test Method for Assessment of DIF

Guo-Wei Sun, Ching-Lin Shih

National Taichung University, Taiwan

 

Wen-Chung Wang

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

 

A Cognitive Component Investigation of the Computerized Figural Matrix Test

I-Hsiang Su, Pi-Hsia Hung

Graduate Institute of Measurement and Statistics

National University of Tainan, Taiwan

 

The Development of a Test of Scientific Metacognition and related studies

Szu-Chengms Lu, Bor-Yaun Twu

National University of Tainan, TAIWAN

 

Application of Rasch Measurement Model in Satisfaction Domain of Diabetes Quality of Life (DQOL)

Li-Hui Li, Wei-Chu Chie

Institute of Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University

 

Validity of the Persian Version of the Multidimensional School Anger Inventory-Revised: A Factor and Rasch Study

S. Vahid Aryadoust

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

Masoud Aryadoust

Tabriz University, Iran

 

Forough Nejatolahi

Shiraz Medical University, Iran

 

A Rasch measurement on the First Term Scores of a Form-one Class

Mr. POON S.S.

EdD candidate of the HKIEd

 

Rasch modeling of testlet effect and ability-based guessing: An empirical study of the SR and PR Tests

Yi-Hung Lin

UC Berkeley

 

Ching-Ling Cheng

National Taiwan Normal University

 

Wen-Chung Wang

Hong Kong Institute of Education

 

Comparing traditional and new approaches to assess data-model fit under violations of unidimensionality

Moritz Heene

Psychological Methodology and Evaluation Unit,

Ludwig ¡V Maximillians University, Munich

 

Andrew Kyngdon

MetaMetrics, Inc.

 

Philipp Sckopke

Ludwig ¡V Maximillians University, Munich

 

Effect of gender and reading ability on questions in the target language in L2 listening tests

Luc T. Le, Anna Filipi & Bernadette Brouwers

Australian Council for Educational Research

 

Bayesian Approach to Parameter Estimation for Item Response Theory (IRT) Models using WinBugs

Fung Tze-ho, Eric

 

Latent Variable Interpretations of Rasch Models

Jackson Stenner

MetaMetrics, Inc.

 

A Many-Faceted Rasch Analysis of a Graduation Thesis Assessment

Edward Schaefer

Ochanomizu University

 

The Quest for Invariant Measurement in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences

George Engelhard

Emory University

 

Issues in Large Scale Assessments

Margaret Wu

Assessment Research Centre

University of Melbourne

 

Developing Assessments for Classroom Teachers

Peter Tymms

Durham University

 

Rasch Model Analysis of Hong Kong Senior Secondary School Students' Views and Understandings of Nature of Science

YEUNG Yau-yuen

Dept. of Science and Environmental Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education

 

WU Xiao

Guangdong University of Technology

 

Rasch analysis of the help seeking scale

Zeng  Yi, Magdalena Mo Ching Mok

Hong Kong Institute of Education

 

Development of a Computerized Technological Literacy Scale for Elementary School Students  using Rasch analysis

Chien-Hsun Tseng, I-Hua Lin, Pi-Hsia Hung

Department of Industrial Technology Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

Graduate Institute of Measurement and Statistics, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

 

The Academic Achievement of Liberal Studies among Secondary School Students

Au Wai Chun

Candidate of EDD program

Hong Kong Institute of Education

 

An analysis of items quality of English entrance test for new postgraduate students by 2P Model

I Made Putrawan

Maruf Akbar

State University of Jakarta

 

The Development of a Rasch Measurement Physical Fitness Scale for Hong Kong Primary Students

Zi YAN

Hong Kong Institute of Education