Quantitative Methods Forum

Test

Fall 2025 - Winter 2026

Coordinator: Dr. Cathy Zhang
Venue:  In-Person or Online
Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm on Mondays

Fall 2025

  • Sept 8: Teague Henry (Joint Brownbag, online only)
    Title: "How can constructs be real if our eyes aren't real?": A modest proposal for psychological construct theory.
  • Sept 15: Welcome Party (BSB 159 HEBB lab, start at 12pm)
  • Sept 22: Naomi Martinez Gutierrez (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
    Title: Overview of Replication Metrics
  • Sept 29: Michael Truong (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
    Title: Machine Learning Structural Equation Modeling and Falsificatory Data Analysis
  • Oct 6: Josh Gilbert (Joint Brownbag, online only)
    Title: Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Item-Level data: Insights from Item Response Theory
  • Oct 13: Cancelled due to Thanksgiving Day
  • Oct 20: Paul Riesthuis (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
    Title: When is scientific research ready to provide practical recommendations? An example from eyewitness memory research
  • Oct 27: Arjun Singh (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
    Title: Small sample inferences in multilevel modelling
  • Nov 3:  Alexander Robitzch (Joint Brownbag, online only)
    Title: Estimation of Standard Error, Linking Error, and Total Error for Linking Methods in the 2PL Model
  • Nov 10: Gabriel Crone (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
    Title: How well do data fraud detection tools work? An empirical test of p-value analyses, extreme effect sizes, GRIM, and GRIMMER
  • Nov 17: Cancelled Due to Departmental Meeting
  • Nov 24: Cancelled (Joint Brownbag, online only)
  • Dec 1: Sarah Campbell (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
    Title: A Multiple-Group IRT-based Reliable Change Index: Comparing Individual Change Across Groups

Winter 2026

  • Jan 5: Miranda Too (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
  • Jan 12: Ryley Nathaniel(BSB 159 HEBB lab)
  • Jan 19: cancelled due to departmental meeting
  • Jan 26 Cathy Zhang (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
  • Feb 2: Christian Geiser (Joint Brownbag, online only)
  • Feb 9: Ken Suzuki (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
  • Feb 16: Reading week
  • Feb 23: Denny Borsboom (Joint Brownbag, online only)
  • March 2: Deborah Laze (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
  • March 9: Michael Truong (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
  • March 16: cancelled due to departmental meeting
  • March 23: Qiwei He (Joint Brownbag, online only)
  • March 30: Eric Tu (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
  • April 6: Victoria Celio (BSB 159 HEBB lab)
  • April 20: Christian Ringle (Joint Brownbag, online only)

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