Ever struggled to talk about sensitive topics? 🤐 In our next #SciCommAcademy lunch talk on Nov 16, Liesbeth Aerts & Matthias Meersschaert will share their insights to improve communication about delicate topics like climate change and animal research! More info: lnkd.in/eQYvkxNr

1/3 I am looking to hire new PhD students in Psychology & Decision Science, focusing on human agency, starting in August 2024. It's a fully funded 4-year position, part of my Freedom to Choose grant with Alexander Cappelen (FAIR-The Choice Lab), Jay Van Bavel, PhD & M.J. Crockett. RT = 🙏

Welcoming applications on the topic of "Large-Scale Assessments" for a post-doctoral MSCA fellowship at the University of Cyprus. Research proposals may focus on methodological, measurement, or policy issues. #ILSA

EU-project-based position for an early-career researcher with focus on systematic review/meta-analysis

Mijn stukje in De Tijd vandaag over de overdreven psychologisering van werk. "Wat zeg je? Dat je onveilig gehechte manager je een trauma geeft met zijn passief-agressieve e-mails en dat je op de rand van burn-out staat?" tijd.be/r/t/1/id/10519…

We are recruting a postdoc for our large scale longitudinal study SpedAims cohort. Great opportunities for the right person interested in QM,language, reading, math or beh problems. Norwegian skills not a prerequisite Please share😊 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Our centre of excellence in research «CREATE» is recruting a postdoc and a PhD. If you are interested in child development and interventions in maths, reading or language you might be the one of the persons we are looking for! Please share 😊 uv.uio.no/om/ledige-stil…

Registration for the QUINT Conference is now open! And there's still time to submit your paper abstract (deadline on Friday) uv.uio.no/quint/english/…

Do you want to work interdisciplinary? We invite you to apply for a 3-4-year position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Special Needs Education and Inclusive Practice. The deadline is 20th of march 2024! jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Congratz to our new colleague dr. Esther Ulitzsch Esther Ulitzsch for winning the Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award and to prof.dr. Terry Ackerman on winning the career award! Well deserved #NCME2024 @CEMO_UiO NCME

Campbell's Law Explains the Replication Crisis: Pre-Registration Badges Are History Repeating osf.io/7czpr/

I have several exciting openings for PhD students and postdocs in the context of my advanced ERC grant #ERCAdG on Assumption-lean (Causal) Modeling and Estimation. Please spread the news! users.ugent.be/~svsteela/ @DassGhent @UGent_fwe Ghent University Research @UGent European Research Council (ERC)

Understanding statistics is key to making sense of the world, but there's always a risk of misuse or misinterpretation That's why we've created a guide to help you critically evaluate the figures you encounter as #GE24 approaches Check it out here: rss.org.uk/RSS/media/File…

Your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons” #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018)🇬🇧 A brilliant statistics educator & “one of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” /5

New paper out with @marcqks in the International Journal of Testing. Looking into nonresponse in PISA's student questionnaire. Food for thought, for anyone working with these survey scales in ILSA or developing them doi.org/10.1080/153050… OECD Education IEA - Education International Education Blog

Our paper, "Will the Real Linda Please Stand up...to Large Language Models? Examining the Representativeness Heuristic in LLMs" was just selected as an oral spotlight presentation (top 2%) at Conference on Language Modeling. arxiv.org/abs/2404.01461 Congratulations to Pengda Wang, Zilin Xiao, and

Today at the #IEAGA in Tbilisi, we are proud to announce this year's Richard M. Wolf Memorial Award for an outstanding paper goes to Stefan Johansson and the Bruce H. Chopping Memorial Award for an outstanding Thesis goes to Saskia van Laar. A big congratulations to both! Read

Paper out from Melaku Tesema on affirmative action in Ethiopian higher education. Lots of empirical results & considerations for edu policy. doi.org/10.3389/feduc.… #edu #inequality #Ethiopia UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 IIEP-UNESCO @CEMO_UiO

Flagged on PubPeer: "The practice of neurosurgery on Saturn," courtesy of Elsevier pubpeer.com/publications/3…

Loving educational measurement & psychometrics --> join another FREMO conference: Oslo, 2025 SEPTEMBER 3-4! uio.no/fremo Free of charge & great keynote speakers (Anna Brown, Maria Bolsinova, Rolf Strietholt, Alf Inge Wang) Alf Inge Wang University of Kent IEA - Education Psychometric Society