Call for Abstracts: International Conference on Outcomes Measurement
HOSTED BY NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE (NIDA), OFFICE OF BEHAVIORAL SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (OBSSR), & UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH MEASUREMENT: FROM THEORY TO APPLICATION
HYATT REGENCY BETHESDA
BETHESDA, MARYLAND
SEPTEMBER 11TH-13TH, 2008
Conference Mission:
The International Conference on Outcomes Measurement (ICOM) will review the science behind the measurement of important constructs in substance use and behavioral health research, while also exploring opportunities to improve the field with the new tools available in psychometrics.
Please visit our website, www.icom-2008.org, for a Call for Papers and preliminary agenda.
Conference Objectives:
- Promote understanding and use of IRT/Rasch measurement in research and development efforts across many fields of practice, but with a principal focus on behavioral health and substance abuse.
- Develop comprehensive educational programs and materials that promote the application of modern measurement.
- Provide educational opportunities to maintain and increase the knowledge and skills of measurement and behavioral health professionals and health care practitioners as technology advances.
- Provide ideas and methods to extend the capacity and usefulness of behavioral health care research by means of IRT/Rasch measurement applications.
- Provide forums for conversation and support of research activities that use modern measurement techniques.
- To develop a forecast of the critical factors that will influence important constructs of behavioral health and substance abuse in the coming decade.
Speakers and Organizers Include:
- David Andrich
- Darrell Bock
- Stephen Butler
- David Cella
- Kendon Conrad
- Karon Cook
- Kimberly Davis
- Michael Dennis
- Ann Doucette
- Susan Embretson
- Michael Fendrich
- Christine Fox
- Robert Gibbons
- Donald Hedeker
- Allen Heinemann
- Thomas McLellan
- Paul Pilkonis
- Steven Reise
- Barth Riley
- Matthias Rose
- Everett Smith
- Richard Smith
- A. Jackson Stenner
- Alan Tennant
- David Thissen
- Otto Walter
- John Ware
- Mark Wilson
HOSTED BY NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE (NIDA), OFFICE OF BEHAVIORAL SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (OBSSR), & UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH MEASUREMENT: FROM THEORY TO APPLICATION
HYATT REGENCY BETHESDA
BETHESDA, MARYLAND
SEPTEMBER 11TH-13TH, 2008
Call For Papers:
The primary focus of ICOM is behavioral health, especially substance abuse, but papers with particularly interesting methodological insights are also welcome even if they address other substantive areas. Specifically, we are seeking speakers who can present papers addressing conference objectives on the following key topics:
- Scoring and clinical interpretation issues in the IRT/Rasch framework.
- Ensuring the comparability of health outcomes assessment across diverse population sub-groups.
- Interpretation of changes.
- Measurement criteria for model choice.
- Using person and item fit statistics to refine measures and target interventions more appropriately.
- Integrating measurement into multilevel modeling. Multi-level modeling makes assumptions regarding scale construction.
- Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) Applications.
- Unidimensional and multidimensional models.
- Other innovative applications of IRT/Rasch or approaches to improving the validity and efficiency of measurement.
The Call for Papers deadline is June 6, 2008. To submit an abstract, please visit the ICOM website at www.icom-2008.org and fill out a presenter proposal form.
Workshop Opportunities:
Pre/post-session workshops will be held on September 9th,10th, and 13th, 2008. These opportunities include An Introduction to Rasch Measurement: Theory and Applications taught by Everett Smith and Richard Smith; An Introduction to RUMM 2020 taught by David Andrich; and a special session free to NIH employees of An Introduction to IRT/Rasch Measurement Using Winsteps taught by Kendon Conrad, Barth Riley, and Michael Dennis. Full descriptions of the workshops can be found at the ICOM website
Conference Registration:
Please register on-line for the main conference and workshop sessions. You will also be able to reserve a room at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda with the ICOM rate at the website.
For more information, please visit our website:
www.icom-2008.org
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