Kudos: Engelhard gives keynote address; Zhai gives talk on use of AI in science education

Engelhard gives keynote address in China

George Engelhard, a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, presented a keynote address at Jiangxi Normal University in China. The theme of the conference was educational evaluation and talent assessment in the age of artificial intelligence, and the title of his keynote address was “The Pillars of Measurement Wisdom.”

The address focused on the pillars of measurement wisdom in the human sciences with Rasch measurement theory as the guiding framework. Engelhard will teach a course on Rasch measurement theory in the spring 2024 semester.

Zhai gives talk on use of AI in science education

Xiaoming Zhai, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education, was invited to give a talk to state education leaders about using AI to support assessment in science. This talk is part of a series that emerged from a desire from the Council of Chief State School Officers Science Collaborative and State Performance Assessment Learning Community (SPA-LC) to understand the advances in AI; opportunities for using AI in classrooms; possibilities and trade-offs for AI use in assessment design, task engagement, and scoring; teaching about AI; and equity and ethics around AI use.

This talk was moderated by Bill Penuel at University of Colorado Boulder and will serve as a foundation for further work and exploration through the Science Collaborative, Council of State Science Supervisors, and SPA-LC. Funding support for the series comes from the Learning Policy Institute.