Jon has successfully completed his first internship as a psychometrician! His project, "A Method for Cooperative Test Assembly for Large-scale Assessment," had great results. The results were so good, in fact, that the president of the company was intrigued. The method, in a very elementary interpretation, basically made selecting test items easier from the start by automatically choosing items that meet both psychometric and content constraints. Interesting, no? The 4 interns made their presentations on Thursday, and each had varying degrees of technicality. The projects will be submitted to the NCME conference to be presented next spring in New York.
We really enjoyed getting to know the folks at MP and the other interns. The interns were like a group selected to be featured in a college brochure with one from the western U.S., the Midwest (by way of Korea), the east coast, and the south. Two guys, two gals. I was like their manager, showing up to dinners and special events but not doing any of the real work--the Miss Elizabeth to their Macho Man.
(The pic at the top is MP. Second, dinner with the interns Eun-Young, Becky, Zach, and Jon. Finally, Jon and I in his cube@MP. Photos from/by Eun-Young. Click to enlarge.)
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You silly east coast people...calling Nebraska the west!! (You're not the only ones who have done this).
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