The Expertise Group of the Faculty of Psychology UGM and the Doctoral Study Program in Psychology held a series of events “Intensive Course on the Development of Advanced Research in the Field of Science”. The series of events ended on Friday (7/4) with the specialization of Psychometrics as a closing after previously starting on March 29, 2022. This session presented Haryanta, M.A., Wahyu Widhiarso, M.A., and Bambang Sumintono, Ph.D as speakers.
In the first session, Wahyu discussed the topic “Knowing Competing Models in Research”. Wahyu explained that the model approximates something that cannot be observed directly. “So, because the pattern does not appear directly, the pattern cannot be directly understood, the shape is still foreign, the shape is still latent, so we need a model,” explained Wahyu.
Then Wahyu also explained several key words that can be used to understand the model, namely simplification of something complex, prioritizing important elements, loading assumptions, having a chance to be blamed, can be used to predict, and restricting things irrelevant,
The second session, presented with the topic “Knowing Many Facets Analysis in Rasch Modelling”, Bambang conveyed how to introduce multi rater analysis. “That performance assessment is always inseparable from errors and biases,” explained Bambang. In addition, Bambang also said that when conducting a multirater test, you can use the classic test-theory approach, namely cohen kappa, fleiss kappa, and generalizibility theory.
Finally, with the topic “Development of Problem Analysis in Competency Assessment”, Haryanta explained about the application of psychometric science in the real world, especially the world of assessment. “There are two things that we really must realize that learning, psychometrics, psychology, and its implications for the real world have experienced a tremendous shift. In my opinion, this is urgent and needs to be anticipated and dealt with immediately,” said Haryanta.
The first thing that shifted was expressed by Haryanta regarding the changing trend, where everyone who studied psychology while taking a bachelor’s program studied psychodiagnostics. However, currently the discussion is getting wider, including using games as an assessment process. Another thing that has also shifted is the competency test which is more focused than the potential test and various kinds of changes in basic things in psychology that are expressed by Haryanta.