Posted by Joan Phaup
You can still get a $100 early-bird registration discount for the Questionmark 2014 Users Conference if you register by tomorrow (Thursday, January 30th).
The program for March 4 – 7 includes a keynote by Learning Strategist Bryan Chapman on the power of open data, which will be a hot topic throughout this gathering at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio.
You can click here for program details, but here’s the line-up:
Optional Pre-Conference Workshops
- Questionmark Boot Camp: Basic Training for Beginners (full day)
- Test Development Fundamentals (half day)
- The Art & Craft of Item Writing (half day)
Case Studies
- Using Questionmark to Conduct Performance Based Certifications — SpaceTEC®
- Better Outcomes Make the Outcome Better! — US Marine Corps University
- Generating and Sending Custom Completion Certificates — The Aurelius Group
- Leveraging Questionmark’s Survey Capabilities with a Multi-system Model – Verizon
- Importing Questions into Questionmark Live on a Tri-Military Service Training Campus Medical Education & Training Campus
- How Can a Randomly Designed Test be Fair to All? US Coast Guard Training Center
Best Practices 
- Principles of Psychometrics and Measurement Design
- 7 Reasons to Use Online Assessments for Compliance
- Reporting and Analytics: Understanding Assessment Results
- Making it Real: Building Simulations Into Your Quizzes and Tests
- Practical Lessons from Psychology Research to Improve Your Assessments
- Item Writing Techniques for Surveys, Quizzes and Tests
Questionmark Features & Functions
- Introduction to Questionmark for Beginners
- BYOL: Item and Topic Authoring
- BYOL: Collaborative Assessment Authoring
- Integrating with Questionmark’s Open Assessment Platform
- Using Questionmark’s OData API for Analytics (BYOL)
- Successfully Deploying Questionmark Perception
- Customizing the Participant Interface
Discussions
- Testing What We Teach: How can we elevate our effectiveness without additional time or resources?
- Testing is Changing: Practical and Secure Assessment in the 21st Century
Future Solutions Focus Groups
- Open Assessment Platform and Analytics
- Authoring and Delivery
Special Interest Group Meetings
- Military/Defense US DOD and Homeland Security
- Utilities/Energy Generation and Distribution
- Higher Education
- Universities
Drop-in Demos of new Questionmark features and capabilities
Tech Central: Drop-in meetings with Questionmark technicians
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Register for the conference by tomorrow, Thursday, January 31st, to get the early-bird discount.
