IACAT Mission Statement

The International Association for Computerized and Adaptive Testing (IACAT) is an organization that is incorporated exclusively for scientific, educational, literary, and charitable purposes.

Its purposes include:

Encouragement of scholarly efforts to:

• Advance the science of adaptive testing in all fields of applied psychological and educational measurement;
• Improve adaptive instruments and procedures for their administration, scoring, interpretation, and use;
• Improve applications of adaptive assessment of individuals and evaluations of assessment programs.

Dissemination of knowledge about:

• Theory, techniques, technologies and instrumentation available for adaptive measurement in all relevant human, institutional, and social characteristics;
• Procedures appropriate to the interpretation and use of such technologies and instruments;
• Applications of adaptive measurement in individual and group evaluation studies.

To achieve these aims, IACAT will:

• Organize international meetings and discussions;
• Promote the publication of relevant information by means of its own and other publication outlets;
• Stimulate international cooperation on research projects relevant to a scientifically and ethically sound use of adaptive testing;
• Be available to act as an intermediary in international negotiations concerning the publication and marketing of adaptive tests;
• Advance professional development and work to raise standards governing test development and use.

This year's program will include a full complement of presentations in either 20-minute or traditional poster formats, 6 keynote addresses, 3 workshops, and one invited symposium titled, "Lessons Learned from the Introduction of a CAT Program." Additionally, IACAT President, Theo Eggen, will give a presidential address.

Theo Eggen IACAT President

IACAT President, Theo Eggen is a member of Cito’s Psychometric Research Center. He has major experience in advising on the methodological aspects (research design and data analysis) of educational research and test development, in conducting data analysis, and in multidisciplinary cooperation projects. Besides that, he is full professor of psychometrics at the University of Twente. Mr Eggen has expert knowledge of statistical tools and packages, of specialized psychometric computer programs, and of computer programming. He worked as a consultant in educational measurement at universities, Cito, and internationally. He teaches introductory and specialized courses and has presented many papers at national and international conferences. He is the author of research articles, syllabi, and textbooks. He supervises master and doctoral projects on educational measurement. Theo Eggen’s specializations are: item response theory, quality of tests, national assessment, missing data problems, and computerized adaptive testing.

To learn more about IACAT or to join, please visit IACAT.org.

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Directions to Asilomar
The Monterey Peninsula Airport (MRY) is just 8 miles from Asilomar, while Mineta San Jose International (SJC) is 80 miles to the North and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is 110 miles to the North. The airports in San Jose and San Francisco are also served by the Monterey Airbus, an airport shuttle service that can bring travelers right to Asilomar's door.

From the Monterey Airport
Head southeast on Olmsted Road toward Garden Road. Take the 2nd right onto CA-68 West. Continue on 68-West for 1.2 miles. At the fork, keep left to follow signs to CA-1 S/CA-68 W/Central Monterey, and merge onto CA-1 S/CA-68 W. Continue on CA-1 S for 3.1 miles, and take exit 399A for CA-68 W toward Pacific Grove/Pebble Beach. Turn right onto CA-68 W, and continue on CA-68 W for 3.1 miles. Turn left onto CA-68 W/Sunset Drive and continue for .9 miles. Turn right onto Asilomar Blvd, and take the first left. Asilomar Conference Grounds will be on the left.

From San Francisco / San Jose
Asilomar is approximately 120 miles south of downtown San Francisco (about 105 miles from San Francisco International Airport) and about 75 miles south of San Jose. Take 101 South to 156 West. Take 156 West to Highway 1 South, through Monterey to the Pebble Beach / Pacific Grove exit, turn right on Holman Highway / 68 West. Stay on Highway 68 West/Holman Highway for 3.5 miles until it becomes a city street called Forest Avenue. Continue on Forest Avenue for about 1 mile and make a left turn onto Sinex Avenue. In just under 1 mile, Sinex Avenue ends right at the front gates to Asilomar.

Airport Transportation
Local taxi companies service the Monterey Peninsula Airport as does the Monterey-Salinas Transit bus system. Airport shuttle service to and from San Jose and San Francisco airports can be arranged in advance through Monterey Salinas Airbus by calling 831-373-7777 or visiting the Monterey Airbus website. Please note that the Airbus does not go Asilomar; taxi fare is approximately $15 from downtown Monterey to Asilomar. Central Coast Taxi can be reached at (831) 626-3333

Public Transportation
The Monterey-Salinas Transit bus system stops at the Monterey airport. The fare to Asilomar is $1.75 one way, and the total trip is about 30 minutes. Take any number Monterey-bound bus. Ask for a transfer when you board. Transfers are free. Tell the driver to announce the Monterey Transit Center, which is where you will disembark and transfer to the #1 Asilomar bus. The bus will let you off at the front gate to the Asilomar Conference Grounds. For more information, call (831) 899-2555 or visit their website www.mst.org

Daily non-stop flights from Monterey (MRY) to
SFO- San Francisco, CA (United Airlines)
LAX- Los Angeles, CA (American Eagle/United Express)
PHX- Phoenix, AZ (US Airways)
DEN- Denver, CO (United Express)
LAS- Las Vegas, NV (Allegiant Air)

You can view the flight schedule below:
http://www.montereyairport.com/documents/August1st_000.pdf

Ground Transportation (MRY)

Car Rentals

The following rental car companies are available at San Jose and San Francisco Airports for your convenience: ACE Rent a Car, Alamo, Auto Europe, Avis, Big Value Cars, Budget, Dollar, E-Z Rent a Car, Economy, Europcar, Fox Rent a Car, Hertz,Honk, National, Thrifty, U-Save, Zoom Car Rental

Bicycle Rentals
Bicycles are a great way to explore the Monterey Peninsula. For more information, please contact the following companies:

American Institutes for Research	Founded in 1946 as a not-for-profit organization, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is one of the world’s largest educational research and assessment development firms. AIR works on testing programs designed to improve education by establishing meaningful standards, ensuring that the schools and teachers have the tools and information needed to teach effectively, measuring learning fairly and precisely, and communicating findings clearly. AIR is successfully administering full-year, online, multiple-attempt, adaptive testing in Oregon, Hawaii, and Delaware, and beginning this year in Minnesota.
Assessment Systems Corporation	Assessment Systems Corporation has been a leader in consulting and software for adaptive testing since 1978. Our FastTEST item banker and delivery platform can be used to make any test adaptive, and has recently been redeveloped as FastTEST Web. Also try Xcalibre for user-friendly IRT and CATSim for CAT research.
Cito	Cito, based in the Netherlands, is one of the world’s leading testing and assessment companies. Measuring and monitoring human potential has been our core competence since 1968. We work for educational institutions, governments and companies, with learning performance and performance in the workplace as our focal points. Our work builds on the latest developments in ICT and psychometric research.
The College Board	The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 5,700 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,800 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT®, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®). The College Board is committed to the principles of excellence and equity, and that commitment is embodied in all of its programs, services, activities, and concerns.
CTB/McGraw-Hill	Founded in 1926 to “help the teacher help the child,” today CTB/McGraw-Hill ranks among education’s leading assessment partners. Our programs and services are recognized for excellence and innovation and encompass diagnostic, summative, interim and formative, performance-based, and observational assessments for learners of all ages.
ETS	At ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for people worldwide by creating assessments based on rigorous research. ETS serves individuals, educational institutions and government agencies by providing customized solutions for teacher certification, English language learning, and elementary, secondary and post-secondary education, as well as conducting education research, analysis and policy studies. Founded as a nonprofit in 1947, ETS develops, administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually—including the TOEFL® and TOEIC® tests, the GRE® tests and The Praxis Series™ assessments—in more than 180 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide. www.ets.org
National Council of State Boards of Nursing	National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN®) is a not-for-profit organization through which boards of nursing act and counsel together on matters of common interest and concern affecting the public health, safety and welfare, including the development of NCLEX-RN®, NCLEX-PN®, NNAAP®, and MACE® examinations.
Pacific Metrics	Pacific Metrics is an R&D company offering assessment and technology solutions to large-scale and other educational organizations. Our nationally known research scientists and educational technologists specialize in such areas as psychometric software and special studies, high stakes testing software, formative assessment software, research management, innovative item development, and automated scoring.
Pearson	Pearson is your partner in measurement. Whether you need to create, validate, or deliver a computerized adaptive test, our testing professionals can help you at every step. From item and test development to final score analysis, we ensure the integrity of your examination process.

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The International Association for Computer Adaptive Testing is honored to feature the following internationally-respected experts in psychological and educational measurement:

	Hua-Hua Chang Hua-Hua Chang is Professor in Educational Psychology, Psychology and Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is a practitioner-turned professor. He worked nine years in the testing industry before moving to academia in 2001. Dr. Chang's research interests include asymptotic properties in Item Response Theory, Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT), Differential Item Functioning, and Cognitive Diagnosis. Recently, his work has been concentrated on developing item selection methods for large scale implementation of web-based assessment. Using the cutting-edge Browser/Server Architecture, the item selection and management algorithms can be fitted on a regular laptop to be connected to thousand PCs via the internet. CAT is revolutionarily changing the way we address challenges in assessment and learning. Dr. Chang has given numerous psychometric workshops in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, The Netherlands, and the US. He was awarded three times as Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at UIUC.
	Seung Choi Dr. Choi is an Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis on psychometrics. His earlier career was devoted to developing and validating student achievement programs in the field of Educational Measurement. He oversaw the psychometric aspects of a number of statewide student assessment programs, including Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Tennessee. Dr. Choi made a career transition in 2006 to the health outcomes measurement field. Since then, Dr. Choi has been a significant contributor to a number of federally-funded projects, including the Patient-Reported Outcomes Information System (PROMIS: http://www.nihpromis.org/). Dr. Choi is the principal developer of the PROMIS CAT engine currently being used operationally in numerous clinical studies. Dr. Choi is also the author of the CAT simulation program, FIRESTAR, which is being used by a number of researchers and graduate students around the world. More recently, he is leading an effort to develop multidimensional, hierarchical adaptive testing engines that are suitable for measuring complex and multifaceted health outcomes constructs.
	Kathleen Scalise Kathleen Scalise received her Ph.D. in quantitative measurement at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. She is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon, in the Department of Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership. Her main research areas are dynamically delivered content in e-learning, computer adaptive testing, item response models with innovative item types, and applications to equity studies. She recently served as a core member of the methodological group for the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project created by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft; for the Oregon state task force writing legislation for virtual public schools; and as co-director of the UC Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research Center (BEAR). She also served with the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division of the California Department of Education, and holds teaching credentials for K-12 physical and life sciences. Her primary areas of work are in science and mathematics education.
	Heinz Holling Heinz Holling is professor for statistics and quantitative methods at the department of psychology and sport science and as well at the department of economics of the University of Muenster in Germany. His research focuses on optimal design, adaptive rule-based testing and meta-analysis. He has published numerous articles in international journals e.g. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Journal of Mathematical Psychology or Biometrika. Furthermore, he is author or editor of over 15 books and contributed many chapters in books. His programs of research have been continuously funded for the past 30 years by the German Research Foundation and Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
	Han van der Maas Han van der Maas (1966) received his Ph.D. (Developmental Psychology) in 1993 (Cum Laude) for research on methods for the analysis of phase transitions in cognitive development (advisor: Peter Molenaar). After a five year fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Art and Sciences, he joined the faculty of the developmental group of the University of Amsterdam, first as associate professor and in 2003 as full professor. In 2005 he became professor and chair of the Psychological Methods group at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2008 he is also director of the Graduate School of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 he founded Oefenweb.nl, a spin-off company of the UvA-holding, selling a unique game-based web-based adaptive child monitoring system. His research focuses on the computational, statistical and mathematical formalization and testing of psychological theories in areas such as cognition, expertise, psychological development, attitudes and intelligence.
	Wim J. van der Linden Wim J van der Linden is Chief Research Scientist, CTB/McGraw-Hill, Monterey, CA. He received his PhD in psychometrics from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include test theory, computerized adaptive testing, optimal test assembly, test equating, modeling response times on test items, and decision theory and its application to problems of educational decision making. He is co-editor of three published volumes: Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory (New York: Springer, 1997; with R. K. Hambleton), Computerized Adaptive Testing: Theory and Applications (Boston: Kluwer, 2000; with C. A. W. Glas), and its sequel Elements of Adaptive Testing (New York Springer, 2010; with C. A. W. Glas). He is also the author of Linear Models for Optimal Test Design published by Springer in 2005. Currently, he works on Introduction to Test Theory and its Applications, also to be published by Springer. Dr. van der Linden has served on the editorial boards of nearly all major test-theory journals and is a co-editor for the Springer Series on Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. He is also a former President of the Psychometric Society, Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Umea University in Sweden in 2008, and is a recipient of the ATP and NCME Career Achievement Awards for his work on educational measurement.

Asilomar Conference Grounds

Take advantage of on-site lodging and meal plans for the 2011 IACAT Conference!

Due to Asilomar State Park policy, lodging/food packages cannot be guaranteed after August 24. Alternate arrangements can be made at area hotels. Learn more at www.Monterey.com

PO Box 537
800 Asilomar Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

Phone: 888.635.5310  

Asilomar is a breathtakingly beautiful 107 acres of protected beachfront land within the scenic town of Pacific Grove on the world-famous Monterey Peninsula. Ecologically diverse, the grounds are a mix of California’s most pristine sand dunes, unspoiled beaches and towering pine forests. Since 1913, Asilomar has played host to thousands of groups and conferences seeking a productive environment in a unique and natural setting. Thirty historic buildings, many designed by famed architect Julia Morgan, house 313 guest rooms and 30,000 square feet of inspirational meeting space.

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Asilomar Conference Grounds Lodging

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Room rates below are inclusive of 10% Occupancy Tax, 9.25% Sales Tax and are subject to a $1.00 per room per night Tourism Assessment Fee.

All meals are included in the room rates starting with dinner on the day of arrival and ending with lunch on the day of departure. Rates are Net, Non-Commissionable.

Tax Exemption: If Customer maintains tax-exempt status, Customer must provide Asilomar with a valid State Tax Exemption Certificate prior to the meeting's start date of 10/1/2011 12:00:00 AM in order to receive the tax-exempt status. Please note that although your organization may be exempt from State taxes. A lodging tax (currently 10%) still applies. 

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Implementing CAT in Large Scale Testing Programs:
Lessoned Learned from a Variety of Perspectives (invited panel discussion)

Organizer & Chair: Richard J. Patz, CTB/McGraw-Hill

Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination
Craig N. Mills, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

US Medical Licensing Exam
Ronald J. Nungester, National Board of Medical Examiners

Oregon Student Assessment Program
Anthony Alpert, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test Battery
James McBride, Renaissance Learning

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	Anthony Alpert Tony Alpert currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). The SBAC is comprised of 29 member states that are funded by the U.S. Department of Education to create an assessment that will measure students' career and college readiness through a balanced approach that includes a summative and interim computer adaptive test, complex performance tasks and formative assessment tools and processes. Prior to serving as SBAC's Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Alpert served as the Director of Assessment and Accountability for Oregon and oversaw its online computer adaptive test used for state and federal accountability. In addition, he was a member of the U.S. Department of Education's Technical Advisory Committee and has served as a peer reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education's peer review process.
	James McBride James McBride is Vice President and Chief Psychometrician at Renaissance Learning, where he has played a key role in the design, development, research and evaluation of the company's computer adaptive assessments: STAR Reading, STAR Math, and STAR Early Literacy, as well as its other technology-based assessment instruments. Before joining Renaissance Learning, he was Principal Scientist for HumRRO (Human Resources Research Organization), Director of Computer-Based Testing for The Psychological Corporation (now Harcourt Assessment), and Director of Personnel Systems Research for the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center (NPRDC). While at NPRDC, he was principal investigator for the Navy's initial research and development leading to the computerized adaptive version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. With Harcourt and later with HumRRO, he was responsible for some of the first commercial applications of CAT to measuring vocational aptitudes, educational achievement, and personnel selection in industry.
	Craig Mills Craig Mills is the Vice President of Examinations and Continuing Professional Education for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Craig led the development and implementation of a computer-based version of the Uniform CPA Examination in 2004—a project known for its groundbreaking work on item development, multi-stage adaptive testing, and novel technology-based assessments. In 2011, a new version of the examination was released, with numerous improvements, including enhanced performance assessments. Craig received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1982. Prior to joining the AICPA in 1998, Craig was employed by Educational Testing Service (ETS) for almost 15 years. He began his employment at ETS as a measurement statistician. In 1985, he became a program director in the Graduate Record Examinations Program where he directed the computerization of the GRE General Test, the first high-stakes admissions test to be computerized. After leaving GRE, Craig worked with senior management of ETS to design a corporate infrastructure to support CBT. He is author of over 75 publications and professional presentations on standard setting for decision tests, computerized testing, and other measurement topics. He was a co-author of one of the first sets of guidelines for computer-based assessment, published by the American Council on Education. He is co-editor of "Computer-Based Testing: Building the Foundation for Future Assessments," published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. He is considered by many to be one of the leading visionaries in the measurement profession. In 2008 Craig was named one of the ten most distinguished graduates in the first 100 years of the University of Massachusetts School of Education.
	Ronald Nungester Ronald J. Nungester, PhD is Senior Vice President, Professional Services of the National Board of Medical Examiners. The NBME is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to protect the health of the public through state of the art assessment of health professionals, along with a major commitment to research and development in evaluation and measurement. In conjunction with the Federation of State Medical Boards, the NBME has established a single three-step examination for medical licensure in the US, the United States Medical Licensing Examination. In addition, the NBME provides examination programs to support medical students and schools, practicing physicians, health professional organizations and international programs. Professional Services is responsible for all aspects of NBME and client examinations related to test development, test administration, test analyses, and measurement services.
	Richard Patz Dr. Richard Patz is Vice President of Research and Product Development at CTB/McGraw-Hill, one of the leading publishers of summative and formative assessments. A leader in the fields of educational measurement and statistics, he has published numerous articles on the technical and practical aspects of test development and validation. A former mathematics teacher, he now has responsibility for CTB/McGraw-Hill's product development and innovation. He works closely with numerous clients, including state departments of education, in implementing large scale educational assessments both online and through traditional media.

Additional Invited Symposia

	Advances in Multidimensional Adaptive Testing Organizer: Andreas Frey, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (FSU), Germany Andreas Frey is Professor for Educational Research Methods at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (FSU), Germany. Before joining the FSU, he worked at the Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) in Kiel as senior researcher and scientific coordinator of PISA 2006 in Germany. He directs a research project on multidimensional adaptive testing funded by the German research foundation and is author of several publications on CAT and other measurement topics. He is also involved in the development of operational CATs in school settings and co-authored the Multidimensional Adaptive Testing Environment (MATE).
	Recent Advances in Multistage Testing Research and Applications at ETS Organizer: Duanli Yan, ETS Dr. Duanli Yan has been working at Educational Testing Service (ETS) for many years as psychometrician and development scientist. She has been responsible for the operational institution test for TOEIC®—Test of English for International Communication™, the operational EXADEP™ Examen de Admisión a Estudios de Posgrado™, and various research and development projects. She is co-editor of  "Computerized Multistage Testing: Theory and Applications" to be published by Chapman and Hall.
	Practical Challenges in CAT –Problems and Solutions to Test Calibration, Assembly, Administration and Monitoring Item Bias Organizer: Krista Breithaupt, Medical Council of Canada (MCC) Beginning in March 2010, Dr. Breithaupt has been Director of Research and Development for the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) and is responsible for best practice and innovation for licensing and evaluating physicians in Canada. Dr. Breithaupt was Director of Psychometrics and Research at the American Institute of CPAs, where she led a national practice analysis, and designed automated test assembly and content management systems for CBT. Dr. Breithaupt has published on issues related to optimization models for inventory management, performance testing, results reporting and multi-stage test designs. Dr. Breithaupt completed her Ph.D. and M.A. in Educational Measurement at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
	Adaptive Testing for Classification and/or Diagnosis Organizer: Ying Cheng, University of Notre Dame Dr. Ying Cheng's research focuses on theoretical development and applications of item response theory (IRT) in educational and psychological measurement. Her recent projects include non-statistical constraints control in computerized adaptive testing (CAT), detection of test bias (formally known as different item/test functioning), and new estimation methods of classification accuracy and consistency. She is also interested in cognitive diagnosis and how it interacts with applications of traditional IRT, e.g., cognitive diagnostic CAT.
	What’s next? A discussion of research issues and practical requirements that may influence the next generation of adaptive tests Organizer: Gage Kingsbury, NWEA G. Gage Kingsbury is Senior Research Fellow at NWEA. His primary interest is the application of modern measurement theory to practical assessment. Gage has developed adaptive achievement tests that are used in over 4000 school districts in the US and international schools in over 60 countries. Gage has served as one of the authors of the ACE and ATP Guidelines for computer-based testing. He is currently Vice President of IACAT.
	Intended and Unintended Multidimensionality in CAT: Some Issues and Findings Organizer: Mary Pommerich, DMDC Mary Pommerich is a psychometrician in the Personnel Testing Division of the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), where she provides psychometric support for the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery testing program and serves as the chair of the Technical Committee for the Manpower Accession Policy Working Group. She has been working with operational CAT programs and conducting CAT research since the late 1990s. Mary is currently on the board of directors for the National Council on Measurement in Education.
	Issues Where Theory and Practice Meet Organizer: Angela Verschoor, Cito Angela Verschoor is Senior Researcher at CITO, the Netherlands. With a background in discrete optimization, her interest is the development and application of automated test assembly (ATA), optimal design and computerized adaptive testing (CAT). She has been responsible for the design of pretests for large-scale projects such as the Final Primary Education Test in the Netherlands. Other recent projects included the introduction of ATA and CAT in national high school examination programs in the Netherlands, Georgia and Russia.
	How we used CAT to help us create a 33 instrument Neurological Health Battery for ages 3-85 which can be administered in under 2 hours Organizer: Richard C. Gershon, Northwestern University Richard Gershon is the Vice-Chair for Research of the Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS) at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. He serves as the primary investigator for the National of Institutes of Health (NIH) Toolbox contract for the Assessment of Neurological Behavior and Function, the NIH Roadmap Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Technical Center, and a principal co-investigator for the Healthy Measures project of the National Children's Study. In addition, he serves as a consultant to numerous assessment organizations - with primary focus in educational testing and medical board certification. Dr. Gershon was the founder of Computerized Adaptive Technologies, Inc. (CAT) now part of the Pearson Publishing testing portfolio.

A conference dinner will be held at that the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Monday, October 3. This dinner is included in your registration fee so you will have the opportunity to sign up for this dinner when you register for the conference.

The dinner at the Monterey Bay Aquarium includes:

• Dinner
• Beverages (including wine and beer)
• Access to some Aquarium exhibits, including the Open Seas Exhibit (http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/news/)
• Round Trip Transportation from Asilomar

Options to sign up for a wine tasting tour, art gallery tour, and kayaking on Monterey Bay are available during conference registration—limited space is available.

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Monterey Area Activities

The majestic Big Sur Coast & Hearst Castle
Visit Fisherman’s Warf and Cannery Row in neighboring Monterey
Tour world-renowned Monterey County Wineries
Monterey Bay Aquarium, the #1 aquarium in the country!
17-Mile Drive, Pebble Beach
Quaint Carmel-by-the-Sea art galleries and shops
Outlet Shopping on Cannery Row
Kayaking, scuba diving or deep sea fishing
Hang gliding or skydiving
Horseback riding or hiking in Pt. Lobos State Preserve