This proceedings volume highlights the latest research and developments in psychometrics and
statistics. This book compiles and expands on selected and peer reviewed presentations given at
the 83rd Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) organized by Columbia
University and held in New York USA July 9th to 13th 2018. The IMPS is one of the largest
international meetings on quantitative measurement in education psychology and the social
sciences. The last couple of years it has attracted more than 500 participants and more than
250 paper presentations from researchers around the world. Leading experts in the world and
promising young researchers have written the 38 chapters. The chapters address a large variety
of topics including but not limited to item response theory multistage adaptive testing and
cognitive diagnostic models. This volume is the 7th in a series of recent volumes to cover
research presented at the IMPS.
