REMS Proseminar (ESPY 896)
The REMS Proseminar is a community of scholars interested in research methods appropriate to Education and the Social Sciences. Each week, a guest speaker presents on a topic they feel appeals to participants in research methods. It is available as a one credit repeatable course for graduate students and as a learning community for all who are interested.
A cross-disciplinary Learning Series
The REMS Proseminar meets Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:20 p.m. Central Time during Fall and Spring.
Each week, a guest speaker presents on a topic they feel appeals to participants in research methods, across many different disciplines and areas of research.
Available to Faculty, Staff, and Students
The REMS Proseminar is available as a one-credit course, but is also available for faculty, staff, and students to attend as they desire.
Share Your Knowledge
We are always looking for guest speakers. If you would like to share your knowledge or even contextualize and ask some interesting methodological questions, please email Neal Kingston at nkingsto@ku.edu.
Speakers should be prepared to talk about 40 minutes with the remaining time available for Q&A. Talks may be aimed at any level of prior knowledge and experience.
The list of presenters and topics for Fall 2024 is forthcoming. If you are interested in speaking, please contact Neal Kingston.
| Fall 2024 | ||
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
September 3 | Derek Reid | Writing for the Reader: The Little Red Schoolhouse Method Applied to Educational Psychology |
September 10 | Neal Kingston | The intersection between competency-based education and using maps to visualize the curriculum of a meta-analysis course |
September 17 | Neal Kingston | We will not be meeting, but please watch the following two videos regarding Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. |
September 24 | Neal Kingston | Lessons about making inferences: Maine computerized essay grading study |
October 1 | Neal Kingston | Open discussion |
October 8 | Lisa Dieker | Navigating the Complexities of Research with Technological Innovations in Real-World Classrooms |
October 15 |
| FALL BREAK |
October 22 | Joseph Weir | Normalization of physiological variables and the tyranny of ratio scaling |
October 29 | Neal Kingston | Historical Roots of Educational Measurement |
November 5 |
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November 19 | Haoyang Yu | What’s on the Minds of Psychometricians |
November 26 | Maggie Mosher | Free AI-Assisted Research Tools: Cautions, Benefits, and Questions to Ponder |
December 3 | Jill Becker (Head of Undergraduate Engagement) and Josh Bolick (Head of Scholarly Communications and Copyright) | Open Education Resources |
| December 10 | Michael Ralph | CAUSE: The Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments |
| Spring 2024 | ||
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
January 16 | Neal Kingston | Intro to proseminar |
January 23 | Angela Murray | Classroom assessment Montessori style |
January 30 | Susan Embretson | SEM |
February 6 | Haiying Long | Dissecting reliability and validity evidence of Subjective Creativity Assessment |
February 13 | Tonya Waller | Becoming a Culturally Responsive Practitioner |
February 20 | Quincy Johnson | Statistics in Sports: Leveraging Data to Optimize Athletic Performance |
February 27 | Neal Kingston | A real statistical consultation! |
March 5 | Taylor Wilson | Game-based assessment |
March 12 |
| SPRING BREAK |
March 19 | Bryan Mann | Researching education policy with mixed methods and human geography approaches |
March 26 | Michael Ralph | Integrations of QuantCrit |
April 2 | Joseph Weir | Classical test theory and physical performance measures |
April 9 | Maggie Mosher | Intercultural Communication in Mixed Methods Research |
April 16 | Courtney Castle | Principles of comptency-based assessment |
April 23 | Sean Joo | Simulation studies in assessment |
April 30 | Megan Mulvihill | Item analysis in non-cognitive assessment |
| Fall 2023 | ||
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
August 22 | Neal Kingston | Intro to proseminar |
August 29 | Haiying Long | Research methodology |
September 5 | Haiying Long | Introduction to post-positivism |
September 12 | Neal Kingston | Post-positivism and statistical textbooks |
September 19 | Sean Joo | PISA IRT methodology |
September 26 | Tyler Hicks | Bayesian wizardry: Three fantastic uses for this data magic in education research |
October 3 | Haiying Long | Mysteries about statistical assumptions |
October 10 | Jade Caines Lee | Equity and assessment |
October 17 |
| FALL BREAK |
October 24 | Susan Embretson | Using response times in modeling math achievement |
October 31 | Jaclyn Dudek | Data Feminism |
November 7 | Aaron Beuoy | Troubleshooting R |
November 14 | Sabrina Gregerson | Difference in difference (or interactions) in evaluation research |
November 21 |
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November 28 | Neal Kingston | How to create bad tables |
December 5 | Meghan Ecker-Lyster | An Introduction to Evaluation Frameworks |