data test

Lighting talk at New Zealand eResearch Symposium 2014

Slides from Ignite Augkland talk 2011

Slides from my talk at Stratus panel on Open Access, Open Access week 2012

It's a bunch of slides, that I cobbled together in a hurry.

Slide deck and presenter notes for presentation given at Figshare Fest NZ, University of Auckland, Thursday 27th October 2016. Case study: The University of Auckland implemented Figshare as a pilot 2015-2016 to deliver a data sharing and publishing platform to our researcher community. Project was led by our Centre for eResearch and supported by Libraries...

This is the 2016 November 17 Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Prof. Gavin Brown at the Faculty of Education and Social Work in the University of Auckland.ABSTRACTTesting and examination have important consequences for high quality performance, such as graduation, promotion, certification, scholarship, and others. Assessments are also assumed to be...

This is a brief provocation given to the Faculty of Education and Social Work concerning the design of assessments that could be used in future work.

Talk I presented at the 16th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering. Submitted abstract: Computational models of the heart have evolved substantially since Denis Noble published his original 1962 modification of the Hodgkin & Huxley equations applicable to Purkinje fibre action and pacemaker potentials. As available computational power has...

A guest lecture given to the TeachFirst 2017 cohort at the University of Auckland. This is focused on the design and use of standardised tests to inform teachers' curriculum and pedagogical practices. The focus is primarily on the use of the asTTle (assessment tools for teaching and learning) test system.

This is a lecture given at HKIEd in 2009 and 2011 introducing problems and solutions commonly occuring in CFA and SEM and how to resolve them using AMOS.

This is an introductory lecture given in 2009 and 2011 at HKIEd and in 2013 at UoA on principles of CFA and SEM using AMOS software.

This is a lecture given in 2011 at UoA to a group of doctoral students from Thailand. It covers basic principles of defining a construct, operationalising it, and validating it. It is illustrated with processes used in the development of a Chinese Student Conceptions of Assessment inventory, published in 2016 by Brown and Wang in Social Psychology of...

A provocation to the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, November, 2016. This presentation outlines key issues that need to be considered in potentially redesigning the assessment components of courses. It focuses on decisions around curriculum alignment, diversity of data collection, and establishing validity.

This is a staff development workshop conducted at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in February 2013. Presentation details are: Brown, G. T. L. (2013, February 10). Keys to Successful Student Outcomes Assessments. Keynote presentation to the 2nd Annual Forum for University Teaching: Learning Outcomes Assessment, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA....

This is a staff development workshop given at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in February 2013. Goals for the workshop included:–develop an understanding of the principles of validity, reliability, and fairness as they apply to the design of multiple assessment tasks –learn to conduct simple statistical procedures for verifying reliability of...

This is a course lecture given at UOA in 2008 on the underlying assumptions of psychometric approaches to modeling theories with data. 

This is a lecture given at HKIEd to Honours Students concerning basics of evaluating data. It is illustrated with SPSS.

Presentation introduces researcher and research support audience to Figshare, concentrating on how it may be used by researchers and institutions to enable data sharing. Details of the University of Auckland implementation of institutional Figshare are given as an example. - What incentives (carrots), rather than policy and mandates (sticks), have worked...

These 2 presentations are the introduction and concluding presentations in a symposium entitled "Classroom realities that need to be understood to make good assessments” at the 2017 National Council for Measurement in Education annual meeting in San Antonio Texas. Four other presentations were given by: 1. James H. McMillan, Virginia Commonwealth...

The OECD PISA tests of 15 year olds are used to rank participating economies and identify educational policy and schooling practice factors that contribute to rank performance in reading, science, and mathematics. This talk will use a confirmatory factor analysis invariance study of the 2009 PISA reading test to identify the limited comparability of...