W. Jake Thompson

Nash, B. & Thompson, W. J. (2026, September 27–October 2). Through-year assessment as a summative tool: Proof-of-concept evidence from the Pathways for Instructionally Embedded Assessment (PIE) project [Conference session]. International Association for Educational Assessment Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Thompson, W. J. (2026, September 27–October 2). Using diagnostic classification models to improve instructional decision-making [Conference session]. International Association for Educational Assessment Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Thompson, W. J. (2026, September 27–October 2). Open and transparent scoring with measr: An R package for diagnostic classification models [Conference session]. International Association for Educational Assessment Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Jimenez, A., Thompson, W. J., & Nash, B. (2026, April 8–11). Aggregating instructionally embedded assessment data using beta IRT models [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Nash, B., Thompson, W. J., & Majerus, M. (2026, April 8–11). Instructionally embedded assessments to meet instructional and summative uses: Evidence from a pilot study [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

Thompson, W. J. (2026, April 8–11). Estimating and evaluating diagnostic models with the R package measr [Innovation demonstration]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. [Slides]

Thompson, W. J. & Nash, B. (2026, April 8–11). Creating summative scores from instructionally embedded results. In K. McClure (Chair), Combining through-year scores: Operational approaches, challenges, and practical implications [Symposium]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. [Slides]

Thompson, W. J. (2026, January 3–7). Using diagnostic classification models to improve instructional decision-making [Conference session]. IAFOR International Conference on Education in Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. [PDF / Slides]

Thompson, W. J., Nash, B., & Bates, S. (2025, June 23–25). Pathways for instructionally embedded assessment (PIE) proof of concept: Potential future summative uses of an instructionally embedded assessment model [Symposium]. National Conference on Student Assessment, Denver, CO. [Slides]

Jimenez, A., Thompson, W. J., & Nash, B. (2025, April 23–26). Evaluating learning progression hierarchies with diagnostic models [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. [Slides]

Nash, B., Thompson, W. J., Jimenez, A., Majerus, M., & Bates, S. (2025, April 23–26). Patterns of use from an instructionally embedded assessment pilot study [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. [Slides]

Thompson, W. J. (2025, April 23–26). Modeling attribute relationships in diagnostic models with the R package measr [Innovation demonstration]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. [Slides]

Thompson, W. J. (2025, April 23–26). Applications of diagnostic models to learning progressions to improve student learning. In S. Wang (Chair), Bridging theory and practice: Fostering innovation in diagnostic measurement to enhance education [Symposium]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. [Slides]

Thompson, W. J. (2024, July 15–19). Evaluating methods for assessing model fit in diagnostic classification models [Paper presentation]. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF / Slides]

Thompson, W. J. (2024, July 8–11). Diagnostic modeling for educational and psychological assessment [Conference session]. useR!, Salzburg, Austria. [Slides]

Hoover, J. C. & Thompson, W. J. (2024, June 24–26). Evaluating Bayesian transition diagnostic classification models for reporting within-year progress [Conference session]. Modern Modeling Methods, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Invited discussion
Thompson, W. J. (2024, April 11–14). Invited discussion. In S. Wang (Chair), Reconceptualizing diagnostic classification models: Applications and new developments [Symposium]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. [Slides]

Thompson, W. J., Nash, B., & Hoover, J. C. (2023, September 6–7). Using diagnostic models to evaluate student learning hierarchies in a large-scale assessment [Conference session]. Frontier Research in Educational Measurement, Oslo, Norway. [PDF / Slides]

Thompson, W. J. & Clark, A. K. (2023, April 12–15). A simulated retest method for estimating classification reliability. In Y. Bao, M. Madison, & Q. Pan (Chair), Diagnostic measurement: Operational and implementational issues [Symposium]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. [Slides]

Thompson, W. J. (2023, March 28–30). Applied diagnostic classification modeling with the R package measr [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Virtual Sessions. [Slides]

Clark, A. K., Thompson, W. J., & Kobrin, J. (2022, April 22–25). Visualizing validity evidence: Considering strength of evidence following disrupted administration [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Hoover, J. C. & Thompson, W. J. (2022, April 22–25). Modifying the M2 statistic to handle missing data [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Kobrin, J., Thompson, W. J., Wang, W., & Hoover, J. C. (2022, April 22–25). Development and evaluation of a composite item-fit statistic for diagnostic classification models [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Hoover, J. C., Thompson, W. J., Nash, B., & Kobrin, J. (2021, June 8–11). The I-SMART project: Empirical map validation (pdf)[Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference.

Thompson, W. J., Clark, A. K., & Nash, B. (2021, June 8–11). Technical evidence for diagnostic assessments. In W. J. Thompson (Chair), Diagnostic assessments: Moving from theory to practice (pdf)[Symposium]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference. [Slides]

Thompson, W. J. & Pablo, N. (2020, January 29–30). Branding and packaging reports with R Markdown [Conference session]. rstudio::conf(2020), San Francisco, CA.

Thompson, W. J. & Nash, B. (2019, April 4–8). Empirical methods for evaluating maps: Illustrations and results. In M. Karvonen (Chair), Beyond learning progressions: Maps as assessment architecture (pdf) [Symposium]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. [Slides]

Brussow, J. A., Skorupski, W. P., & Thompson, W. J. (2018, April 12–16). A hierarchical IRT model for identifying group-level aberrant growth [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Nash, B., Clark, A. K., & Thompson, W. J. (2018, April 12–16). Using simulation to evaluate retest reliability of assessment results (pdf) [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Thompson, W. J., Clark, A. K., & Nash, B. (2018, April 12–16). Measuring the reliability of student mastery classifications at multiple levels of reporting (pdf) [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, New York, NY. [Slides]

Nash, B. & Thompson, W. J. (2017, April 26–30). Evaluating an initialization tool for student placement into a map-based assessment (pdf) [Paper presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.