The submission deadline was extended to Monday, June 24. Sees http://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/1d454373-76ef-4332-9aec-ac35813ae986.
The conference website, with the submission portal as well as pages to register for the conference, book your hotel after registering, and find out about the city, here: https://cvent.me/35z2m9.
The International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) is excited to announce that this year’s conference will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., from September 22 through September 25, 2024. ETS, one of the founding organizations of the IAEA, will be hosting the conference. We appreciate IAEA members’ patience as we sought to reschedule the conference, which will be shorter this year because of time constraints.
The conference theme and guidelines on proposal preparation are provided on this page, you can also download the PDF
A website with registration page, along with hotel details, will launch soon. We are sharing information and resources as they are available so that attendants can begin planning. In the meantime.
You can email IAEA President Mary Pitoniak with any questions at mpitoniak@ets.org; please put “IAEA Conference Question” in the subject line of your email.
We look forward to seeing you in Philly!
The 49th International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) Annual Conference, hosted by ETS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., will provide an opportunity for industry thought leaders, training providers, and practitioners to examine current and recent advancements in educational assessments, focusing on the theme How Can AI Help Improve Educational Assessments? While AI has gained broader interest globally in education and beyond with the creation of chat GPT and the subsequent emergence of many other tools and applications based on generative AI, forms of AI have been used in assessments for decades, including automatic item generation for new assessments, natural language processing (NLP) or large-language model (LLM) methods for automatic scoring of essays (e.g., ETS e-rater), or onthefly individualized assessment assembly based on computer-adaptive testing (CAT).
This conference will create a forum for summarizing the status quo of how AI is currently used in educational assessments around the globe; what new opportunities it affords for future assessment development, scaling, analysis, and reporting; and what challenges the field is facing and needs to react to for ensuring future fairness and validity of claims based on results from educational assessments. Keynote speakers from around the world and panelists with both theoretical and hands-on experiences relevant to the theme of the conference will complement the general scientific program comprised of paper and poster presentations.
The Conference Paper Review Committee welcomes submissions corresponding to one or more of the following sub-themes or topics of interest:
The Scientific Committee welcomes paper presentation proposals, poster presentation proposals, and pre-conference workshop proposals related to one or more of the sub-themes or topics of interest. All submissions will be reviewed to consider their scientific quality and relevance to the sub-themes or topics of interest. All proposals should be in English, the main language of the conference. Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with criteria applied according to the applicant’s preferred format.
For each submission, please follow the instructions below. Please note that, although you may submit several proposals:
Papers shall constitute a contribution to the development of knowledge in the area How Can AI Help Improve Educational Assessments? in line with the sub-themes or topics of interest. Authors are expected to submit original work and be present at the conference to give a 20-minute presentation and allow 10 minutes for questions/discussion. Empirical studies and theoretical/conceptual papers are both welcome.
Paper proposals should have the following format:
Once the notification of acceptance has been received, the full paper and presentation should be submitted per the following specifications:
In-person poster presentations will take place at the conference. During the poster session a 300-second oral presentation from the author(s) will take place in English, the official language of the conference. The poster must contain original research conducted by the presenter(s) and may include ongoing research.
Poster proposals should have the following format:
Posters will be designed and printed by the presenter; specifications will be provided upon acceptance. Text for the poster may have a maximum of 500 words, and you may include 3 figures or images (should be a minimum of 300 DPI and all copyright laws observed). Color headshots should be submitted for each author of the accepted poster.
For this conference, there will be up to four 3-hour pre-conference workshops on Sunday, September 22, 2024. The preference is for in-person workshops; however, the possibility of a virtual workshop exists, and submissions should indicate format preference.
Pre-conference workshop proposals should have the following format:
A link to the submission system will be published soon. Again, if you have any questions, please email Mary Pitoniak at mpitoniak@ets.org; please put “IAEA Conference Question” in the subject line of your email.
May 14: Call for papers released
June 14: Proposal submission deadline
July 22: Acceptance notifications sent
August 5: Early bird registration deadline; registration deadline for presenters
September 22: Pre-conference workshops
September 23–25: Full conference days
