Brad Bolender

[ACTNext @ACTNext]

🏆 Named for the creator of the @ACT test, the E. F. Lindquist Award recognizes exemplary applied or theoretical research in the field of testing & measurement. Deadline for nominations: Oct 31. @AERA_EdResearch #AERA #assessment #measurement #EdResearch https://t.co/Ol2KwcpZz8

[Brad Bolender @Brad_Bolender]

@ZacharyOS @presscitizen What a pleasant trip through Iowa City history! Thanks for the fascinating read @ZacharyOS, and @presscitizen should know they gained a first-time subscriber from this article.

[Brad Bolender @Brad_Bolender]

Congratulations, Katy Bolender! We love you! #UIGrad19 @UIGradCollege @UIowaEducation

[Brad Bolender @Brad_Bolender]

@BlaineGreteman @Micah_Bateman Hey, Blaine! I'd be happy to do a little programmatic text cleaning on this if you would share a few of the most interesting outputs from your cool RNN text generation experiment--assuming that's what you're aiming to do with it.

[ACT @ACT]

🆕 We’ve agreed to acquire the automated item generation (#AIG) technology of MGHL Consulting Ltd, a leader in AIG. Learn what this means for the #testdevelopment process at ACT and beyond: https://t.co/2oMnrKd3t2 @EATPConf

[Andrew Ho @AndrewDeanHo]

This belongs on every teacher’s desk. “Simple principles from the science of learning.” via @HarvardChanSPH’s Erin Driver-Linn, #HILTconf

[Paul Nichols @pnicho50_paul]

Landers and colleagues explain how to gamify learning in a scientifically supported fashion #DesignScience
https://t.co/4voo9JVW0c

[Marten Roorda @MartenRoorda]

Ministries in Egypt have signed an agreement to use ACT assessments starting this fall: the ACT test for international high schools, ACT Aspire grades 3-9, PreACT grades 9-11, and more. ACT scores will now be accepted by Egyptian universities for admission https://t.co/vaGogAYOrz

[Brad Bolender @Brad_Bolender]

So hard to choose just 1 on the Great American Read list. Many powerful teaching moments from The Giver and Hatchet. Hitchhiker's Guide w my daughters was so much fun. But Confederacy of Dunces is my #1. Hilarious, fun, gross, and sad. #VoteDuncesBook
https://t.co/PBnn1QA38R

[University of Iowa @uiowa]

Three authors with ties to #uiowa had books named to the Great American Read List, which highlights America’s 100 most-loved books. Read more: https://t.co/moh5vCw39c

[University of Iowa @uiowa]

Today, we remember 9/11. #NeverForget

[Brad Bolender @Brad_Bolender]

You can tell who wrote the anonymous NYTimes op-ed due to the author's distinctive use of the term "red herring."

[David Mimno @dmimno]

Now might be a good time to remind everyone that “distinctive phrases” and rare words (high TF-IDF) are not as good for stylometry as subtle differences like “and” vs “the” ratios. If you can easily notice it, someone can easily spoof it.

[Brad Bolender @Brad_Bolender]

Interesting analysis of similarities between anonymous NYT op-ed and tweets from sr officials. Author admits data not high-enough quality to draw conclusions, but methods are informative. Also have to assume some language similarities are planted. #rstats
https://t.co/oa41F2sfLU

[Steve Polyak @StevePolyak]

ACT’s Latest Act: Investing in an Open Source Assessment Startup https://t.co/2SIyxwiadu @ACTNext @ACT #edtech via @EdSurge

[Jeremy Burrus @JeremyBurrus]

On the Use of the Big Five Model as a SEL Assessment Framework - AWG https://t.co/sgPxEcaSHn

[Brad Bolender @Brad_Bolender]

This is such a cool project. Generating abstract representations of objects that produce strong classifier responses in neural networks trained on many images. https://t.co/MPG96va375 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #art

[Brad Bolender @Brad_Bolender]

July 2018: Top 40 New R Packages. https://t.co/FnxVyXbWLl

My personal favorite this month is ceterisParibus for exploring model behavior through visualizations. https://t.co/WlJLmcaXqo

[ACT @ACT]

Today we launched #ACTRecommends, a free online tool that points parents to high quality learning resources, to help address students’ personalized learning needs, from K-12. Needless to say, we recommend it. https://t.co/Y1GNWz1pZv

[Marten Roorda @MartenRoorda]

New NWEA CEO Chris Minnich says a smart assessment system should take advantage of all of the data available about a student’s progress https://t.co/jhOxavZzxa via @Getting_Smart