Patricia Martinkova
I am a researcher at Department of Statistical Modelling, Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. I am also Fulbright alumna and 2013-2015 visiting research scholar with the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, and an affiliate assistant professor at Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
My research focuses on developing models and estimators for measuring the quality of educational tests and psychological assessments with focus on admission and selection process. I am interested in estimation of the reliability and validity of measurements, scale development, estimation of item properties, and the wide topic of latent variable models. My apllied research uses these methodologies to analyze data, mainly from educational testing and health measurements.
My teaching interests cover various topics of applied statistics and psychometrics. I teach seminar NMST570 Selected topics in psychometrics this semester. I also taught course on Item Response Theory and a course of Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences. I am interested in incorporating active learning techniques into teaching.
Recent news
First lesson of NMST570 Selected topics in psychometrics is scheduled on Tue October 10, 3:40PM.
New version of ShinyItemAnalysis app is available online.
R package ShinyItemAnalysis Version 1.2.3 on CRAN now!
R package difNLR Version 1.1.0 on CRAN now!
Czech article ShinyItemAnalysis: Analyzing admission
and other educational and psychological tests, a joint work with Drabinova and Houdek has been published in Testforum.
Article Detection of Differential Item Functioning with Non-Linear Regression: Non-IRT Approach Accounting for Guessing, a joint work with Adela Drabinova, has been accepted for publication in Journal of Educational Measurement.
Video of useR!2017 talk on "Teaching psychometrics and analysing educational tests with ShinyItemAnalysis" is ONLINE now! Enjoy!
Openings for Postdoctoral fellow in Educational Measurement and Psychometrics in Prague. See more information HERE. Submission deadline: July 31, 2017.
Article Checking equity: Why DIF analysis should be a routine part of developing conceptual assessments by Martinkova et. al, has been published in CBE - Lifesciences Education.
Article Development and Validation of the Homeostasis Concept Inventory, a joint work with McFarland et al. has been published in CBE - Lifesciences Education.
Article Validating a conceptual framework for the core concept of "cell-cell communication", a joint work with Michael et. al, has been published in Advances in Physiology Education.
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