Curriculum Vitae Russell George Almond

Curriculum Vitae

Russell George Almond

January 27, 2019

General Information

University address: Measurement and Statistics

Educational Psychology and Learning Systems

College of Education

Stone Building 3204B

Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4453

E-mail address: [email protected]

Web site: http://ralmond.net/

Professional Preparation

1990 Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Major: Statistics.

Supervisor: Arthur P. Dempster.

1986 A. M., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Major: Statistics.

1983 Bachelor of Science, California Institute Of Technology. Major: Mathematics.

Professional Experience

2010–present Associate Professor, Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Florida

State University.

2010 Associate Professor (OPS), Educational Psychology and Learning Systems,

Florida State University.

1999–2010 Senior Research Scientist, Various, Educational Testing Service.

1996–1999 Research Scientist, Research Statistics Group, Educational Testing Service.

1995–1996 Research Associate, RRA, Inc. Contractor at Los Alamos National

Laboratory.

1992–1995 Research Scientist, StatSci division of MathSoft, Inc.

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Language Proficiency

English - native in speaking, reading, and writing.

Visiting Professorship(s)

1996 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Wharton School of Business,

University of Pennsylvania.

1990–1992 Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of

Washington.

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

Outstanding Contribution to Research in Cognition and Assessment, Honorable Mention,

American Educational Research Association, Cognition and Assessment Special Interest

Group (2015).

ETS Team Award, Educational Testing Service (2005).

Bright Idea Award, Educational Testing Service (2003). ($10,000).

Outstanding Scientific or Technical Contribution to Educational Measurement, National Council

on Measurement in Education (NCME) (2000).

Most Outstanding Breakthrough, ETS, New Product Development (1998).

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

American Educational Research Association

American Statistical Association

Association for Computing Machinery

National Council on Measurement in Education

Psychometric Society

Teaching

Courses Taught

Basic Descriptive and Inferential Statistics Applications (EDF5400)

Bayesian Data Analysis (EDF5404)

Educational Data Analysis (EDF5484)

Analysis of Missing Data (EDF6937)

Scale and Instrument Development (EDF5448)

Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment (EDF6056)

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DATA ANALYSIS (EDF6937)

Bayesian Netwrks Eductnl Assmt (EDF6937)

Bayesian Data Analysis (EDF6937)

Bayes Nets in Ed Assmt (EDF6937)

New Course Development

Missing Data Analysis (2016)

Curriculum Development

Developed online and mixed versions of EDF 5400 (Introduction to Inferential and Descriptive

Statistics) (2015)

Developed Bayesian Data Analysis curriculum for EDF 6937 (2012)

Developed Bayesian network curriculum for EDF6937 (2011)

Renewed curriculum for EDF 5448 Scale and Instrument Development (2011)

Revised curriculum for EDF 5400 adding statistics labs (2010)

Doctoral Committee Chair

Tokac, U., graduate. (2016).

Yurekli, H., graduate. (2015).

Olgar, S., graduate. (2015). The Integration of Automated Essay Scoring Systems into the

Equating Process for Mixed-Format Tests.

Ouma, C. A., graduate. (2014). Performance of CART-based Valued-added Model against HLM,

Multiple Regression, and Student Growth Percentile Value-added Models.

Wu, H., graduate. (2013). A Comparison of General Diagnostic Models (GDMs) and Bayesian

Networks using a Middle School Mathematics Test.

Li, J., doctoral candidate.

Sayilir, E., doctoral candidate.

Tingir, S., doctoral candidate.

Velasquez, G., doctoral candidate.

Wang, N., doctoral candidate.

Doctoral Committee Cochair

Nam, J., doctoral candidate.

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Doctoral Committee Member

Zhao, W., graduate. (2017).

Trotta, J., graduate. (2017).

Kocyigit, E., graduate. (2016).

Xia, Y., graduate. (2016).

Jeffery, K. A., graduate. (2016).

Thompson, C. G., graduate. (2016).

Yesiltas, G., graduate. (2016).

Caglak, S., graduate. (2015).

Gunter, T. D., graduate. (2015).

McGhee, M. L., graduate. (2015).

Cocke, J., graduate. (2014).

Kim, Y. J., graduate. (2014).

Orçan, F., graduate. (2013).

Jin, L., graduate. (2012).

Haider, M. Q., doctoral candidate.

Rahimi, S., doctoral candidate.

Sun, C., doctoral candidate.

Carbonell, D., doctoral student.

Li, L., doctoral student.

Doctoral Committee University Representative

Mohamed, S. R., doctoral candidate.

Fenton, E. S., doctoral student.

Master's Committee Chair

Liu, S., graduate. (2015).

Li, T., graduate. (2013).

Hellein, R. T., graduate. (2012).

Yang, S., graduate. (2012).

Kim, H. Y., graduate. (2012).

Kim, A., graduate. (2012).

Velasquez, G., graduate. (2012).

Nam, J., graduate. (2011).

Rahimi, S., student.

Schluck, G., student.

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Master's Committee Member

Fang, S., graduate. (2016).

Kostrna, J. R., graduate. (2016).

Memis, R., graduate. (2016).

Ritchie, J., graduate. (2016).

Yang, D., graduate. (2015).

Li, T., graduate. (2015).

Kitchings, W. E., graduate. (2015).

Leslie, N. S., graduate. (2015).

Jakiel, L. M., graduate. (2014).

Xu, J., graduate. (2014).

Gozutok, A. S., graduate. (2012).

Cui, M., graduate. (2012).

International Workshops

Almond, R. G., & Yan, D. (2018). Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment. Singapore

Ministry of Education.

NCME Tutorial

Yan, D., Almond, R. G., Levy, R., & Zapata-Rivera, Juan-Diego. (2017–2019). Bayesian

Network in Educational Assessment. National Council on Measurement in Education.

Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., Williamson, D. M., & Yan, D. (2011–2015). Bayesian Networks

in Educational Assessment. National Council on Measurement in Education.

Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., Williamson, D. M., & Yan, D. (2004–2010). Bayesian Networks

in Educational Assessment. National Council on Measurement in Education.

Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., Williamson, D. M., & Yan, D. (2002). Graphical Models in

Educational Assessment. National Council on Measurement in Education.

Student/Community Groups

Almond, R. G. (2011–2016). Faculty Adviser and Leader. R and Bugs User Group.

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Research and Original Creative Work

Google Scholar lists 123 publications (including online reports, and entries for each chapter for my two

books) with a total of 2918 citations and an h-index of 25. Looking only at publications since joining FSU

in 2010, there are 33 (although 16 of those are the chapters from the Almond et al., 2015, book) with 1267

citations for an h-index of 16.

Publications

Invited Journal Articles

Almond, R. G., DiBello, L. V., Moulder, B., & Zapata-Rivera, Juan-Diego. (2007). Modeling

Diagnostic Assessment with Bayesian Networks. Journal of Educational Measurement,

44(4), 341-359.

Refereed Journal Articles

Tingir, S., & Almond, R. G. (2017). Using Bayesian Networks to Visually Compare the

Countries: an Example from PISA. Journal of Education and Social Policy, 4(3), 14--23.

Retrieved from http://jespnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_3_September_2017/2.pdf

Kim, Y. J., Almond, R. G., & Shute, V. J. (2016). Applying evidence-centered design for

development of game-based assessments in Physics Playground. International Journal of

Testing, 16 (2), 142--163.

Almond, R. G. (2014). Using Automated Essay Scores as an Anchor When Equating

Constructed Response Writing Tests. International Journal of Testing, 14, 73-91.

Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15305058.2013.816309

doi:10.1080/15305058.2013.816309

Almond, R. G., Kim, Y. J., Velesquez, G., & Shute, V. J. (2014). How Task Features Impact

Evidence from Assessments Embedded in Simulations and Games. Measurement:

Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 12, 1--33.

doi:10.1080/15366367.2014.910060

Almond, R. G. (2010). `I can name that Bayesian Network in Two Matrixes'. International

Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 51, 167-178. Retrieved from

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2009.04.005 doi:10.1016/j.ijar.2009.04.005

Almond, R. G., Mulder, J., Hemat, L. A., & Yan, D. (2009). Bayesian Network Models for Local

Dependence among Observable Outcome Variables. Journal of Educational and

Behavioral Statistics, 34(4), 491-521. doi:10.3102/1076998609332751

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Almond, R. G., Shute, V. J., Underwood, J. S., & Zapata-Rivera, Juan-Diego. (2009). Bayesian

Networks: A Teacher's View. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 50,

450-460. doi:10.1016/j.ijar.2008.04.011

Almond, R. G., Yan, D., & Hemat, L. A. (2008). Parameter Recovery Studies with a Diagnostic

Bayesian Network Model. Behaviormetrika, 35(2), 159-185.

Shute, V. J., Hansen, E. G., & Almond, R. G. (2008). You Can't Fatten A Hog by Weighing It -

Or Can You? Evaluating an Assessment for Learning System Called ACED.

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 18(4), 289-316. Retrieved

from http://www.ijaied.org/iaied/ijaied/abstract/Vol_18/Shute08.html

Almond, R. G. (2007). Cognitive Modeling to Represent Growth (Learning) Using Markov

Decision Processes. Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (TICL), 5,

313-324. Retrieved from http://www.oldcitypublishing.com/TICL/TICL.html

Sinharay, S., & Almond, R. G. (2007). Assessing Fit of Cognitively Diagnostic Models---A Case

Study. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 67(2), 239-257.

Williamson, D. M., Mislevy, R. J., & Almond, R. G. (2004). Evidence-Centered Design for

Certification and Licensure. CLEAR Exam Review, 14, 14-18.

Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., & Almond, R. G. (2003). On the structure of educational

assessment (with discussion). Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspective,

1(1), 3-62.

Almond, R. G., Steinberg, L. S., & Mislevy, R. J. (2002). Enhancing the design and delivery of

assessment systems: A four-process architecture. Journal of Technology, Learning, and

Assessment, 1, (online). Retrieved from http://www.jtla.org/

Mislevy, R. J., Almond, R. G., & Steinberg, L. S. (2002). Design and analysis in a task-based

language assessment. Language Testing, 19(4), 477-496.

Almond, R. G., Lewis, C., Tukey, J. W., & Yan, D. (2000). Displays for Comparing a Given

State to Many Others. The American Statistician, 54, 89-93.

Almond, R. G., & Mislevy, R. J. (1999). Graphical models and computerized adaptive testing.

Applied Psychological Measurement, 23, 223-238.

Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., Breyer, F. J., Almond, R. G., & Johnson, L. (1999). A cognitive

task analysis, with implications for designing a simulation-based assessment system.

Computers in Human Behavior, 15, 29-42.

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Madigan, D., Mosurski, K., & Almond, R. G. (1997). Graphical explanation in belief networks.

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 6(2), 160-181. Retrieved from

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs/index.cfm?fuseaction=madiganjun

Martz, H. F., & Almond, R. G. (1997). Using higher-level failure data in fault tree quantification.

Reliability Engineering and Safety Systems, 56, 29-42.

Almond, R. G. (1995). Fuzzy logic: Better science or better engineering. Technometrics,

37(147), 267-270.

Almond, R. G. (1991). Building blocks for graphical belief models. Journal of Applied Statistics,

18, 63-76.

Refereed Books

Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., Yan, D., & Williamson, D. M. (2015). Bayesian

Networks in Educational Assessment. Springer.

Almond, R. G. (1995). Graphical Belief Modeling. Chapman and Hall.

Refereed Monographs

Almond, R. G., Deane, P., Quinlan, T., Wagner, M., & Sydorenko, T. (2012). A Preliminary

Analysis of Keystroke Log Data from a Timed Writing Task. Educational Testing Service.

Retrieved from http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/RR-12-23.pdf

Almond, R. G., & Sinharay, S. (2012). What Can Repeated Cross-Sectional Studies Tell Us

About Student Growth? Educational Testing Service. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/RR-12-17.pdf

Almond, R. G. (2011). Estimating Parameters of Periodic Assessment Models. Educational

Testing Service. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/research/policy_research_reports/rm-11-06.pdf

Almond, R. G. (2007). An Illustration of the Use of Markov Decision Processes to Represent

Student Growth (Learning). Educational Testing Service. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/RR-07-40.pdf

Shute, V. J., Hansen, E. G., & Almond, R. G. (2007). An Assessment for Learning System Called

ACED: The Impact of Feedback and Adaptivity on Learning. ETS. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/research/researcher/RR-07-26.html

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Almond, R. G., Mulder, J., Hemat, L. A., & Yan, D. (2006). Models for local dependence among

observable outcome variables. Educational Testing Service. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/research/researcher/RR-06-36.html

Almond, R. G., Yan, D., Matukhin, A., & Chang, D. (2006). StatShop Testing. Educational

Testing Service.

Mislevy, R. J., Almond, R. G., & Lukas, J. (2004). A brief introduction to evidence-centered

design. Educational Testing Service. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/research/policy_research_reports/publications/report/2003/hsgs

Sinharay, S., Almond, R. G., & Yan, D. (2004). Assessing fit of models with discrete proficiency

variables in educational assessment. Educational Testing Service. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/research/researcher/RR-04-07.html

Yan, D., Almond, R. G., & Mislevy, R. J. (2004). Comparison of two models for cognitive

diagnosis. Educational Testing Service. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/research/researcher/RR-04-02.html

Mislevy, R. J., Almond, R. G., & Lukas, J. F. (2003). A Brief Introduction to Evidence Centered

Design. Educational Testing Service/CRESST. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/research/policy_research_reports/publications/report/2003/hsgs

Yan, D., Mislevy, R. J., & Almond, R. G. (2003). Design and analysis in a cognitive assessment.

Educational Testing Service. Retrieved from

http://www.ets.org/research/researcher/RR-03-32.html

Invited Book Chapters

Almond, R. G., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (contract). Bayesian Networks. Manuscript under contract

for publication, Springer.

Almond, R. G. (2016). Tips and Tricks for Building Bayesian Networks for Scoring

Game-Based Assessments. In Joe Suzuki, & Maomi Ueno (Eds.), Lecture Notes in

Computer Science 9505, AMBN 2015 (pp. 250-263). Spinger.

Almond, R. G. (2010). Using Evidence Centered Design to Think about Assessments. In Shute,

Valerie J., & Becker, Betsy J. (Eds.), Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century:

Supporting Educational Needs (pp. 75-100). Springer. Retrieved from

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6530-1_6

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Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., Almond, R. G., & Lukas, J. F. (2006). Concepts, Terminology

and Basic Models of Evidence-Centered Design. In Williamson, David M., Mislevy,

Robert J., & Bejar, Isaac I. (Eds.), Automated Scoring of Complex Tasks in

Computer-Based Testing (pp. 15-47). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Williamson, D. M., Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., & Levy, R. (2006). An Application of

Bayesian Networks in Automated Scoring of Computerized Simulation Tasks. In

Williamson, David M., Mislevy, Robert J., & Bejar, Isaac I. (Eds.), Automated Scoring of

Complex Tasks in Computer-Based Testing (pp. 201-257). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., & Almond, R. G. (2002). On the roles of task model variables in

assessment design. In S. Irvine, & P. Kyllonen (Eds.), Generating items for cognitive

tests: Theory and practice (pp. 97-128). Erlbaum.

Refereed Book Chapters

Shute, V. J., Hanse, E. G., & Almond, R. G. (2007). Evaluating ACED: The Impact of Feedback

and Adaptivity on Learning. In R. Luckin, K. R. Koedinger, & J. Greer (Eds.), Artificial

Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts that Work (pp.

230--237). IOSPress.

Frase, L. T., Chudorow, M., Almond, R. G., Burstein, J., Kukich, K., Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg,

L. S., & Singley, K. (2003). Technology and Assessment. In H.F. O'Neil, & R. Perez

(Eds.), Technology applications in assessment: A learning view (pp. 213-244). Erlbaum.

Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., Almond, R. G., Haertel, G., & Penuel, W. (2003). Leverage

points for improving educational assessment. In B. Means, & G. Haertel (Eds.),

Evaluating the Effects of Technology in Education (pp. 149-180). Earlbaum.

Almond, R. G., Steinberg, L. S., & Mislevy, R. J. (2002). A Framework for Reusing Assessment

Components. In Yanai, H., Okada. A., Shigemasu, K., Kano, Y., & Meulman, J. J. (Eds.),

New Developments in Psychometrics (pp. 281-288). Springer.

Almond, R. G. (1999). Undoing statistical advice. In Hand, D.J., Kok, J.N., & Berthold, M.R

(Eds.), Advances in Intelligence Data Analysis (pp. 357-368). Springer.

Madigan, D., & Almond, R. G. (1995). On Test selection strategies for belief networks. In D.

Fisher, & H.J. Lenz (Eds.), Learning from Data: AI and Statistics V (pp. 89-98).

Springer-Verlag.

Almond, R. G., Bradshaw, J. M., & Madigan, D. (1994). Reuse and sharing of graphical belief

network components. In P. Cheeseman, & W. Oldford (Eds.), Selecting Models from

Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics IV (pp. 113-122). Springer-Verlag. Retrieved

from http://ralmond.net/pubs/ontology.pdf

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Madigan, D., Raftery, A. E., York, J. C., Bradshaw, J. M., & Almond, R. G. (1994). Strategies

for graphical model selection. In P. Cheeseman, & W. Oldford (Eds.), Selecting Models

from Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics IV (pp. 91-100). Springer-Verlag.

Madigan, D., York, J. C., Bradshaw, J. M., & Almond, R. G. (1994). Bayesian graphical models

for predicting errors in databases. In P. Cheeseman, & W. Oldford (Eds.), Selecting

Models from Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics IV (pp. 123-132).

Springer-Verlag.

Almond, R. G. (1993). Lack of information based control in expert systems. In Hand, D.J. (Ed.),

Artificial Intelligence Frontiers in Statistics: AI and Statistics III (pp. 82-89). Chapman

and Hall.

Invited Encyclopedia Entries

Almond, R. G. (2010). Graphical Models. In Peterson, Penelope, Baker, Eva, & McGaw, Barry

(Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Education (p. 197-202). Elsevier.

Refereed Proceedings

Tokac, U., & Almond, R. G. (2016). The Efficacy of the POMDP-RTI Approach for Early

Reading Intervention. In Laskey, K. B., & Carvalho, R. N. (Eds.), Proceedings of the

Thirteenth UAI Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop (BMAW 2016) (pp. 36--43).

CEUR. Retrieved from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1663/bmaw2016_paper_7.pdf

Almond, R. G. (2015). An IRT-based Parameterization for Conditional Probability Tables. In

John Mark Agosta, & Rommel N. Carvalho (Eds.), Bayesian Model Application

Workshop 2015 (pp. 14-23). CEUR. Retrieved from

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1565/bmaw2015_paper4.pdf

Almond, R., Goldin, I., Guo, Y., & Wang, N. (2014). Vertical and Stationary Scales for Progress

Maps. In J Stamper, Z Pardoz, M Mavrikis, & B. M. McLaren (Eds.), Proceedings of the

7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, London, England (pp.

169--176). Society for Educational Data Mining. Retrieved from

http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2014/uploads/procs2014/long%20papers/169_ED

M-2014-Full.pdf

Almond, R. (2014). A Comparison of Two MCMC Algorithms for Hierarchical Mixture Models.

In Kathryn Laskey, James H. R. Jones, & Russell Almond (Eds.), Bayesian Modeling

Application Workshop at the Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Conference, Quebec

City, Canada (pp. 1-19). CEUR. Retrieved from

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1218/bmaw2014_paper_1.pdf

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Almond, R. G., Kim, Y. J., Shute, V. J., & Ventura, M. (2013). Debugging the Evidence Chain.

In Almond, R. G., & Mengshoel, O. (Eds.), 2013 UAI Application Workshops: Big Data

meet Complex Models and Models for Spatial, Temporal and Network Data (Association

for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence) (pp. 1--10). CEUR. Retrieved from

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1024/paper-01.pdf

Almond, R. G., Tokac, U., & Al Otaiba, S. (2012). Using POMDPs to Forecast Kindergarten

Students Reading Comprehension. In Agosta, J. M., Nicholson, A., & Flores, M. J.

(Eds.), The 9th Bayesian Modeling Application Workshop at UAI 2012. Catalina Island,

CA. Retrieved from

http://www.abnms.org/uai2012-apps-workshop/papers/AlmondEtal.pdf

Shute, V. J., Hansen, E. G., & Almond, R. G. (2007). Evaluation of ACED: The impact of

feedback and adaptivity on learning. In Proceedings of the AIED 2007 (Artificial

Intelligence and Education) conference. Los Angeles, CA.

Almond, R. G. (2007). `I can name that Bayesian Network in Two Matrixes'. In Laskey, K. B.,

Mahoney, S. M., & Goldsmith, J. A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th UAI Bayesian

Modeling Applications Workshop (pp. (online)). CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Retrieved from

http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-268/paper1.pdf

Almond, R. G., Shute, V. J., Underwood, J. S., & Zapata-Rivera, Juan-Diego. (2006). Bayesian

Networks: A Teacher's View. In Proceedings of the 4th Bayesian Modeling Applications

Workshop. (Web): Utrecht University. Retrieved from

http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/DSS/UAI-workshop/UAI-workshop06.html

Almond, R. G., DiBello, L., Jenkins, F., Mislevy, R. J., Senturk, D., Steinberg, L. S., & Yan, D.

(2001). Models for Conditional Probability Tables in Educational Assessment. In

Jaakkola, T., & Richardson, T. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2001 (pp.

137-143). Morgan Kaufmann.

Williamson, D. M., Mislevy, R. J., & Almond, R. G. (2000). Model criticism of Bayesian

networks with latent variables. In C. Boutilier, & M. Goldszmidt (Eds.), Uncertainty in

Artificial Intelligence 16 (pp. 634-643). Morgan Kaufmann.

Almond, R. G., Herskovits, E., Mislevy, R. J., & Steinberg, L. S. (1999). Transfer of information

between system and evidence models. In Heckerman, D., & Whittaker, J. (Eds.),

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 99 (pp. 181-186). The Society for Artificial

Intelligence and Statistics.

Mislevy, R. J., Almond, R. G., Yan, D., & Steinberg, L. S. (1999). Bayes nets in educational

assessment: Where the numbers come from. In K. B. Laskey, & H. Prade (Eds.),

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence '99 (pp. 437-446). Morgan-Kaufmann.

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Bradshaw, J. M., Chapman, C. R., Sullivan, K. M., Almond, R. G., Madigan, D., Zarley, D.,

Gavrin, J., Nims, J., & Bush, N. (1993). KS-3000: an application of DDUCKS to

transplant patient support. In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Florida AI Research

Symposium (FLAIRS '93) (pp. 78-83). Florida AI Research Society. Retrieved from

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaines/BooseBradshaw/EKAW93KS-3000.doc

Almond, R. G. (1990). Breaking dependence in graphical belief models. In Page, Connie, &

LaPage, Raul (Eds.), Computing Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 22nd

Symposium on the Interface (pp. 296-299). Springer-Verlag.

Almond, R. G. (1988). Fusion and propagation in graphical belief models. In Wegman, Edward

J., Gantz, Donald T., & Miller, John J. (Eds.), Computing Science and Statistics:

Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on the Interface (pp. 365-370). American Statistical

Association. Retrieved from http://ralmond.net/pubs/captain.pdf

Invited Reviews

Almond, R. G. (1999). Book Review. Statistics in Medicine, 18, 2983-4.

Nonrefereed Journal Articles

Almond, R. G., Kim, Y. J., Velasquez, G., & Shute, V. (2014). Rejoinder to Comments on Task

Features in Simulations and Games. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and

Perspectives, 12 (3), 118-124. doi:10.1080/15366367.2014.939528

Nonrefereed Summaries

van der Gaag, Linda, & Almond, R. (2009). Summary of Preface to Special Issue on Bayesian

Applications. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 50, 415.

Nonrefereed Reports

Steinberg, L. S., Almond, R. G., Baird, A. B., Cahallan, C., Chernick, H., DiBello, L. V.,

Kindfield, A. C. H., Mislevy, R. J., Senturk, D., & Yan, D. (2003). Introduction to the

Biomass Project: An Illustration of Evidence-Centered Assessment Design and Delivery

Capability (CSE Report 609). National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards,

and Student Testing (CRESST). Retrieved from

http://www.cse.ucla.edu/reports/R609.pdf

Mislevy, R. J., Almond, R. G., DiBello, L., Jenkins, F., Steinberg, L. S., Yan, D., & Senturk, D.

(2002). Modeling conditional probabilities in complex educational assessments (CSE

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Technical Report 580). The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards,

Student Testing (CRESST). Retrieved from http://www.cresst.org/reports/TR580.pdf

Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., Breyer, F. J., Almond, R. G., & Johnson, L. (2001). Making

sense of data from complex assessments (CSE Technical Report 538). The National

Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, Student Testing (CRESST). Retrieved

from http://www.cresst.org/reports/TECH538.pdf

Mislevy, R. J., Almond, R. G., & Steinberg, L. S. (1998). A note on knowledge-based model

construction in educational assessment (CSE Technical Report 480). The National

Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, Student Testing (CRESST). Retrieved

from http://www.cresst.org/reports/TECH480.pdf

Almond, R. G. (1992). An approach to style in data analysis (Technical Report 225). University

of Washington, Department of Statistics. Retrieved from

http://ralmond.net/pubs/style.pdf

Almond, R. G., & Kong, C-T. A. (1991). Some heuristics for building an optimal tree of cliques

from a graph or hypergraph (Research Report 329). University of Chicago, Department

of Statistics. Retrieved from http://ralmond.net/pubs/akong.pdf

Almond, R. G. (1991). Fiducial inference and belief functions (Technical Report 206).

University of Washington, Department of Statistics. Retrieved from

http://ralmond.net/pubs/fisher.pdf

Presentations

Invited Papers at Conferences

Almond, R. G., Shute, V. J., Tingir, S., & Rahimi, S. (presented 2018, November). Identifying

observable outcomes in game-based assessments. Paper presented at The Eighteenth

Annual MARC Conference: Innovative Psychometric Modeling and Methods, Maryland

Assessment Research Center (MARC), College Park, MD. (International) Retrieved from

https://education.umd.edu/research/centers/marc/workshops-and-conferences/2018-marc-

conference

Almond, R. (presented 2014, April). Weighing Educational Evidence. Paper presented at 76th

Annual Meeting, National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia,

PA. (International)

Almond, R. G. (presented 2008). Modeling diagnostic assessments with Bayesian networks.

Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Society for Mathematical Psychology, Washington,

D.C. (International)

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Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R., & Steinberg, L. (presented 1998). A multivariate framework for

educational testing. Paper presented at Taipei International Statistics Symposium,

Chinese Statistical Association, Taipei Taiwan. (International)

Invited Papers at Symposia

Almond, R. G. (presented 2017, November). Measuring Flexibility and Systemic Thinking. In

Stanton Wortham and Henry Braun (Chair), Tracking Development Toward Living a Life

of Meaning and Purpose. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Boston College,

Boston, MA. (National) Retrieved from

https://www.spencer.org/tracking-development-toward-living-life-meaning-and-purpose-

addressing-challenges-measurement

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Almond, R., & Li, T. (presented 2014, April). Hierarchical Mixture Models for Pause Events

During Essay Writing. Paper presented at 76th Annual Meeting, National Council on

Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia, PA. (National)

Kim, Y. J., Cui, M., & Almond, R. (presented 2014, April). Empirical Comparison of Bayesian

Networks and Structural Equation Models in the Context of Educational Assessment.

Paper presented at Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association,

Philadelphia, PA. (National)

Wu, H., & Almond, R. (presented 2014, April). A Comparison of General Diagnostic Models

and Bayesian Networks. Paper presented at 76th Annual Meeting, National Council on

Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia, PA. (National)

Kim, Y. J., Almond, R. G., Shute, V. J., & Ventura, M. (presented 2013). Constructing Bayesian

Networks for a Stealth Assessment of Qualitative Physics. Paper presented at Annual

Meeting, National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia, PA.

(National)

Almond, R. G., & Shute, V. J. (presented 2009). Calibration of Bayesian network-based

diagnostic assessment. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, American Educational

Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA. (National)

Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., & Yan, D. (presented 2007). Using anchor sets to identify scale

and location of latent variables. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, National Council on

Measurement in Education (NCME), Chicago, IL. (National)

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Almond, R. G. (presented 1997). Intelligent support of secondary data analysis. Paper presented

at Sixth International Workshop on AI and Statistics, Society for AI and Statistics, Fort

Lauderdale, FL. (International)

Refereed Papers at Symposia

Almond, R. G. (presented 2017, August). Tabular views of Bayesian networks. In John-Mark

Agosta and Tomas Singlair (Chair), Bayeisan Modeling Application Workshop 2017.

Symposium conducted at the meeting of Association for Uncertainty in Artificial

Intelligence, Sydney, Australia. (International) Retrieved from

http://bmaw2017.azurewebsites.net/

Almond, R. G., Tingir, S., Lu, X., Sun, C., & Rahimi, S. (presented 2017, August). A Validation

Tool for Conditional Probability Tables (CPT) for Physics Playground. In John-Mark

Agosta and Tomas Singlair (Chair), Bayeisan Modeling Application Workshop 2017.

Symposium conducted at the meeting of Association for Uncertainty in Artificial

Intelligence, Sydney, Australia. (International) Retrieved from

http://bmaw2017.azurewebsites.net/

Almond, R. G., & Mulder, J. (presented 2005). Models for local dependence among observable

outcome variables. In Third Annual Bayesian Application Workshop. Symposium

conducted at the meeting of Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence,

Edinburgh, Scotland. (International)

Yan, D., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2005). Using ROC curves to improve evidence for

diagnostic scoring. In Third Annual Bayesian Application Workshop. Symposium

conducted at the meeting of Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence,

Edinburgh, Scotland. (International)

Nonrefereed Papers at Symposia

Almond, R. G., Hemat, L., Zapata-Rivera, J., & Williamson, D. (presented 2004). Procrustean

method for reconciling expert opinion. In 2nd Bayesian Application Workshop.

Symposium conducted at the meeting of Association for Uncertainty in Artificial

Intelligence, Banff, Canada. (International)

Almond, R. G., Williamson, D. M., & Yan, D. (presented 2003). Testing Tests: Quality Control

for Assessment Design. In 1st Bayesian Application Workshop at Uncertainty in

Artificial Intelligence. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Association for

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico. (International)

Mislevy, R., Steinberg, L., & Almond, R. G. (presented 1998). Evidence-centered assessment

design. In Annual Conference of the National Center for Research on Evaluation,

Standards, Student Testing (CRESST). Symposium conducted at the meeting of National

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Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, Student Testing (CRESST), Los Angeles,

CA. (National)

Invited Keynote and Plenary Presentations at Conferences

Almond, R. G. (presented 2015, April). How do we know when Technology and Instruction are

effective? Measuring Cognition and Learning. Keynote presentation at Annual Meeting

of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Technology, Instruction,

Cognition and Learning special interest group, Chicago, IL. (International)

Almond, R. G. (presented 2015). Tips and tricks for building Bayesian networks for scoring

game-based assessments. Keynote presentation at The second Workshop on Advanced

Methodologies for Bayesian Networks, Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence,

Yokohama, Japan. (International)

Almond, R. G. (presented 2014, November). ECD for licensing: A participatory session. Plenary

presentation at Annual Meeting, Florida Educational Research Association, Cocoa Beech.

(State)

Almond, R. G. (presented 2001). Question and test interoperability in the new millennium.

Keynote presentation at International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Psychometric

Society, Osaka, Japan. (International)

Smythe, C., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2001). The QTI framework for sharing assessment data

and results. Keynote presentation at International Meeting of the Psychometric Society,

Psychometric Society, Osaka, Japan. (International)

Invited Keynote and Plenary Presentations at Symposia

Almond, R. G. (presented 2008). Evidence-centered design as a tool for thinking about

assessment. Keynote presentation in B. J. Becker and V. J. Shute (Chair), Assessment for

the 21st Century: Insight. Symposium conducted at the meeting of College of Education,

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (State)

Invited Presentations at Conferences

Almond, R. G. (presented 2012, June). Democratize ECD? Presentation at Games and Learning

Society Conference (gls 8.0), Games and Learning Society, Madison, WI. (National)

Almond, R. G., & Shute, V. J. (presented 2011). ACED: An example of using Bayesian networks

for cognitive diagnosis. Presentation at Annual Convention, Association for

Psychological Science (APS), Washington, D.C. (National)

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Yan, D., Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., & Williamson, D. M. (presented 2006). Bayesian

network applications. Presentation at Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica,

Taipei, Taiwan. (International)

Invited Presentations at Symposia

Almond, R. G., Steinberg, L., & Mislevy, R. (presented 2001). The four process assessment

delivery architecture. In Cognition and Assessment: Theory to Practice. Presentation at

the meeting of University of Maryland, University of Maryland. (National)

Refereed Presentations at Conferences

Almond, R. G., Tingir, S., & Liu, Zhichun (Lukas). (accepted). Physics Playground scoring and

activity selection algorithms. Poster presentation to be given at AERA Annual Meeting,

American Educational Research Association. (National)

Rahimi, S., Almond, R. G., & Shute, V. J. (accepted). Technical Underpinnings of Physics

Playground. Poster presentation to be given at AERA Annual Meeting, American

Educational Research Association. (National)

Smith, G., Almond, R. G., Shute, V. J., Rahimi, S., & Ke, F. (accepted). Physics Playground

Demonstration. Poster presentation to be given at AERA Annual Meeting, American

Educational Research Association. (National)

Almond, R. G., Shute, V. J., Smith, G., Rahimi, S., Ke, F., Liu, Zhichun (Lukas), Lu, X., Sun,

C., Tingir, S., & Wiliams, D. (presented 2018, November). Physics Playground: A

Learning Game Demo with Posters. Presentation at Florida Educational Research

Association 63rd Annual Meeting, Florida Educational Research Association, St.

Petersburg, FL. (State) Retrieved from

https://feraonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FERA-Program-2018_FINAL.pdf

Almond, R. G., Turner, J., Kim, Yoon-Jeon, & Hernandez, J. (presented 2018, October).

Evidence-centered classroom assessment design. Presentation at NCME Special

Conference on Classroom Assessment, National Council on Measurement in Education,

Lawrence, Kansas. (National) Retrieved from

https://aai.ku.edu/ncme-2018-special-conference

Almond, R. G. (presented 2016, November). An importance sampling algorithm for cognitive

diagnostic models using restricted regression. Presentation at Annual Meeting, Florida

Educational Research Association, Lakeland, FL. (State)

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Almond, R. G. (presented 2016, February). Diagnostics for Learning Curve Analysis.

Presentation at Chapter Meeting, Florida Chapter of the American Statistical Association,

Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

Turner, J. E., Summers, J. J., Liu, S., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2015, April). Investigating

Students' Emotional Dynamics in Group-Work. Presentation at Annual Meeting,

American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. (National)

Almond, R. G., & Tokac, U. (presented 2014, November). Using Decision Theory to Allocate

Educational Resources. Presentation at Annual Meeting, Florida Educational Research

Association, Cocoa Beach, FL. (State)

Wu, H., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2013, April). The Comparison of the General Diagnostic

Model (GDM) and Bayesian Networks Using a Middle School Mathematics Test. Poster

presentation at Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association, San

Francisco, CA. (National)

Kim, Y. J., Cui, M., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2013). Empirical Comparison of Bayesian

Networks and Structural Equation Models in the Context of Educational Assessment.

Poster presentation at Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association

(AERA), Philadelphia, PA. (National)

Tokac, U., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2013). Early Prevention of Reading Difficulties by Using

Formative Assessment in Partially Observed Markov Decision Process. Poster

presentation at Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association,

American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. (National)

Almond, R. G., Kim, Y. J., Velasquez, G., & Shute, V. J. (presented 2012, July). How Task

Features Impact Evidence from Assessments Embedded in Simulations and Games.

Presentation at International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), Psychometric

Society, Lincoln, NE. (International)

Wu, H., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2012, July). An application of the general diagnostic model

(GDM) to a middle school mathematics test. Presentation at International Meeting of the

Psychometric Society (IMPS), Psychometric Society, Lincoln, NE. (International)

Wu, H., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2012). Comparing the general diagnostic model (GDM)

and Bayesian networks using a simulated diagnostic test. Poster presentation at Annual

Meeting of the AERA, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

(National)

Almond, R. G. (presented 2011). Utilities and quasi-utilities for classification. Presentation at

Annual Meeting, National Committee on Measurement in Education (NCME), New

Orleans, LA. (National)

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Almond, R. G., Deane, P., Quinlan, T. H., & Attali, Y. (presented 2011). Using timing logs to

diagnose problems in writing performance. Presentation at Annual Meeting, American

Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA. (National)

Almond, R. G., & Lipnevich, A. (presented 2009). Value of evidence: A decision theoretic

approach to validity for diagnostic assessment. Presentation at Annual Meeting,

American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA. (National)

Graf, E. A., Harris, K., Marquez, E., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2008). A cognitively based

assessment system for mathematics competency. Presentation at Annual Meeting,

American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY. (National)

Shute, V. J., Hansen, E. G., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2007). Evaluation of ACED: The impact

of feedback and adaptivity on learning. Presentation at AIED 2007 (Artificial Intelligence

and Education) conference, Artificial Intelligence and Education, Los Angeles, CA.

(International)

Shute, V. J., Hansen, E. G., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2007). Towards Accessible test delivery

systems: A small-scale evaluation of a prototype system for improving the accessibility of

mathematics tests by individuals with visual disabilities. Presentation at Annual Meeting,

National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Chicago, IL. (National)

Almond, R. G. (presented 2006). Cognitive modeling to represent growth (learning) using

Markov decision processes. Presentation at Annual Meeting, American Educational

Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA. (National)

Ye, F., Almond, R. G., & Mislevy, R. J. (presented 2006). Diagnostic assessment of student

learning of patterns in 8th grade math classes: An evidence-centered design approach.

Presentation at Annual Meeting, National Council on Measurement in Education

(NCME), San Francisco, CA. (National)

Ye, F., Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R., & Yan, D. (presented 2004). Sensitivity to prior distributions

in calibration of a Bayesian network. Presentation at Annual Meeting, National Council

on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA. (National)

Mislevy, R., Almond, R. G., & Steinberg, L. (presented 1999). Evidentiary considerations in

performance assessment. Presentation at Annual Meeting, National Council on

Measurement in Education. (National)

Refereed Presentations at Symposia

Almond, R. G. (presented 2018). Inner and Outer Q-matrixes for Multi-step problems. In Annual

Meeting. Presentation at the meeting of American Educational Research Association,

New York, NY. (National)

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Nonrefereed Presentations at Conferences

Li, T., & Almond, R. G. (presented 2013, November). A Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture

Approach to Model Timing Data with Application to Writing Assessment. Presentation at

Annual Meeting, Florida Educational Research Association (FERA), Gainsville, FL.

(State)

Almond, R. G. (presented 2011). Challenges in MCMC, EM and Bayesian psychometrics.

Presentation at Annual Meeting, National Committee on Measurement in Education

(NCME), New Orleans, LA. (National)

Almond, R. G. (presented 2011). Measuring change in mental models. Presentation at Annual

Meeting, American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.

(National)

Katz, I. R., Williamson, D. M., Nadelman, H. L., Kirsch, I., Almond, R. G., Cooper, P. L.,

Redman, M. L., & Zapata, D. (presented 2004, June). Assessing Information and

Communications Technology Literacy for Higher Education. Presentation at International

Association for Educational Assessment, International Association for Educational

Assessment, Philadelphia, PA. (International)

Breyer, F., Mislevy, R., Steinberg, L., & Almond, R. G. (presented 1999). Designing

technology-based assessments: It's the evidence for the inferences that are important.

Presentation at Annual Convention, Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology,

Atlanta, GA. (National)

Mislevy, R., Almond, R. G., & Steinberg, L. (presented 1997). Task design, student modeling,

and evidentiary reasoning in complex educational assessments. Presentation at Annual

Meeting, American Statistical Association, Anaheim, CA. (National)

Refereed Workshops

Kim, Y. J., Ventura, M., Shute, V. J., & Almond, R. G. (2012, June). Newton's Playground: How

to use evidence centered design (ECD) to develop game-based assessment. Workshop

delivered at Games and Learning Society Conference (gls 8.0), Madison, WI. (National)

Ventura, M., Kim, Y. J., Almond, R. G., & Wang, L. (2011). Using Crayon Physics Deluxe.

Workshop delivered at FCR-STEM Conference, Destin, Florida. (State)

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Original Creative Works

Films

Almond, R. G., Huber, P., Kempthorne, P., & Roseman, L. (Director, Editor, Assistant

Producer). (accepted). Exploratory Multivariate Analysis: The crabs data [20 min

Documentary]. Harvard University, Department of Statistics.

Almond, R. G., Huber, P., Ramos, E., Roseman, L., & Thoma, M. (Director, Photographer,

Editor, Assistant Producer). (accepted). Visual aspects of 3d data graphics: A movie [10

min Documentary]. Harvard University, Department of Statistics.

Digital Projects

Refereed Digital Projects

IMS Global Consortium. (Named Contributor). (2000, January–2002, February). Question and

Test Interoperability Specification [XML Specification for Data Exchange]. IMS Global

Consortium. Retrieved from

http://www.imsglobal.org/question/qtiv1p2/imsqti_res_bestv1p2.html

Information and Communication Technology

Computer Software Development

Almond, R. G. (2018). Peanut/PNetica [Computer software]. self. Retrieved from

http://pluto.coe.fsu.edu/RNetica/Peanut.html

Almond, R. G. (2017). RNetica [Computer software]. (Author). Retrieved from

http://pluto.coe.fsu.edu/RNetica/RNetica.html

Almond, R. G. (2017). CPTtools [Computer software]. (Author). Retrieved from

http://pluto.coe.fsu.edu/RNetica/CPTtools.html

Almond, R. G. (2015). CPTtools [Computer software]. (Author). Retrieved from

http://pluto.coe.fsu.edu/RNetica/CPTtools.html

Almond, R. G. (2015). RNetica [Computer software]. (Author). Retrieved from

http://pluto.coe.fsu.edu/RNetica/RNetica.html

Almond, R. G. (2015). Peanut/PNetica [Computer software]. self. Retrieved from

http://pluto.coe.fsu.edu/RNetica/Peanut.html

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Almond, R. G., Matukhin, A., & Yan, D. (2008). StatShop [Computer software]. Educational

Testing Service.

Shute, V. J., Hansen, E. H., Graf, E. A., Underwood, J., Almond, R. G., & Redman, M. (2007).

Adaptive Content with Evidence-based Diagnosis (ACED) [Computer software]. ETS.

Retrieved from http://ecd.ralmond.net/ecdwiki/ACED/ACED

Steinberg, L. S., Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., Chernick, H., Kindfield, A., & Baird, A. (2001).

Biomass [Computer software]. Educational Testing Service.

Steinberg, L. S., Berenbach, B., Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., & Chernick, H. (1998). Portal

[Computer software]. Educational Testing Service.

Almond, R. G. (1997). NAEPVUE [Computer software]. ETS.

Almond, R. G., & Tien, N. (1995). Graphical-Belief [Computer software]. MathSoft.

Almond, R. G. (1992). ElToY [Computer software]. Author. Retrieved from

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=g

etit&lid=263

Almond, R. G. (1990). BELIEF [Computer software]. Author. Retrieved from

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/reasonng/probabl/belief/0.htm

l

Patented Inventions

Steinberg, L. S., Mislevy, R. J., & Almond, R. G. (submitted). Portal Assessment design system

for educational testing. Educational Testing Service.

Almond, R. G., Steinberg, L. S., & Sinharay, S. (2014). Method and system for calibrating

evidence models. 11/170,649, Educational Testing Service.

Shute, V. J., Hansen, E. G., & Almond, R. G. (2010). Method and System for Designing adaptive

diagnostic assessments. 7,828,552, Educational Testing Service.

Contracts and Grants

Contracts and Grants Funded

Almond, Russell George (PI). (Jan 2018–Jul 2018). Psychometric Modeling Fellowship for

Gertrudes Velasquez. Funded by University of Kansas. Total award $7,000.

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Erlebacher, Gordon (Co-PI), Clark, Kathleen (Co-PI), Shute, Valerie J (Co-PI), Ke, Fengfeng

(PI), & Almond, Russell George (Co-PI). (Aug 2017–Jul 2019). Mathematical Learning

via Architectural Design and Modeling Using E-Rebuild. Funded by National Science

Foundation. (1720533). Total award $971,310.

Shute, Valerie J (PI), Ke, Fengfeng (Co-PI), & Almond, Russell George (Co-PI). (Sep 2016–Aug

2019). DIP: Game-based Assessment and Support of STEM-related Competencies.

Funded by National Science Foundation. (1628937). Total award $1,066,257.

Becker, Betsy J (PI), & Almond, Russell George (Co-PI). (Apr 2016–Jun 2016). Proposal for

Existing Item Pool Validation for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor

Vehicles. Funded by Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

(AEC69E). Total award $20,939.

Almond, Russell George (PI). (Mar 2013–Aug 2014). Ubiquitous Assessment Using Data From

Perason's Mathxl. Funded by Pearson, Inc. Total award $50,000.

Contracts and Grants Denied

Turner, Jeannine E (Co-PI), Mon, Lorraine M (Co-PI), Ke, Fengfeng (Co-PI), Almond, Russell

George (PI), & He, Zhe (Co-PI). (Jun 2018). RTG: The Datasmith Workshop. Submitted

to National Science Foundation.

Almond, Russell George (PI). (Jul 2016). A Bayesian Basis To Support Teacher Decision

Making: Baysys. Submitted to University of Oregon.

Nese, J., & Almond, R. G. (Jul 2014). Bayesian System as Basis for Teacher Decision Making:

BaySys. Submitted to Institute of Educational Statistics.

Reviews of My Research and Original Creative Work by Other Authors

Reviews Appearing in Journals

van Buuren, N., de Klerk, S., & Veldkamp, B. P. (2017). ALMOND, R. G., MISLEVY, R. J.,

STEINBERG, L. S., YAN, D., & WILLIAMSON, D. M (2015). Bayesian Networks in

Educational Assessment. NY: Springer. ISBN: 1493921258. Psychometrika, 82,

1182--1184. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11336-017-9585-6

Working Papers

Almond, R. G. (2018). Rules of Evidence for Parsing Event Logs. self

(https://pluto.coe.fsu.edu/Proc4).

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Service

Florida State University

FSU University Service

Chair, Teaching and Evaluation Committee (2016–2017).

Member, Teaching and Evaluation Committee (2011–2017).

FSU College Service

Member, College Curriculum Committee (2016–2018).

Member, Technology Commmittee (2015–2016).

Alternate Member, Technology Committee (2012).

FSU Department Service

Chair, Curriculum Committee (2016–2018).

Chair, Bylaws Committee (2010–2018).

Member, Curriculum Committee (2014–2016).

Member, Evaluation Committee (2012–2014).

FSU Program Service

Chair, Admissions Committee (2015–present).

Coordinator, Colloquium Committee (2011–present).

Interim Coordinator, Program Coordinator (2014).

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The Profession

Guest Editing for Refereed Journals

van der Gaag, L., & Almond, R. G. (Eds.). (2009, January). Special Issue on Bayesian

applications [Special Issue]. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 50.

Editorial Board Membership(s)

Behaviormetrika (2017–present).

Artificial Intelligence in Education Conference (2015–present).

Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (2013–present).

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) [Conference Program Committee] (1999–present).

Association for Computing Machinary Learning@Scale Conference (2013).

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics [Program Committee Membership] (1997–2001).

Reviewer for Textbooks

Fundamentals of Statistical Reasoning in Education (2012).

Chair of a Symposium

Laskey, K. B., Jones, J. H. R., & Almond, R. G. (Chair). (2014, July). Eleventh UAI Bayesian

Modeling Applications Workshop. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Association

for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Quebec, Canada.

Almond, R. G., & Mengshoel, O. (Chair). (2013, July). 2013 UAI Application Workshops: Big

Data meet Complex Models and Models for Spatial, Temporal and Network Data.

Symposium conducted at the meeting of Association for Uncertainty in Artificial

Intelligence, Seattle, WA.

van der Gaag, L., & Almond, R. G. (Chair). (2006). 4th Annual Applications Workshop at

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence conference. Symposium conducted at the meeting of

Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

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Almond, R. G. (Chair). (2005). 3rd Annual Applications Workshop at Uncertainty in Artificial

Intelligence Conference. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Association for

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Reviewer or Panelist for Grant Applications

Institute of Educational Statistics (2009–2011).

Service to Professional Associations

Member: Question and Test Interoperability Working Group, Developed specifications for

Question and Test Interoperability, IMS Consortium (1999–2001).

The Community

Volunteer Mentor, Served as mentor for high school student doing science project, Mentor

Power, NJ (2005–2010).

Member, Board of Directors, Mentor Power, NJ (2006–2007).

Consultation

Educational Testing Service. Consultation on designing open-source tools for Evidence-centered

Assessment Design (2018–present).

Dynamic Learning Maps Consortium. Technical Advisory Committee for project for developing

alternative assessments for students with special needs (2015–present).

WestEd. Technical Advisory Panel for SimScientist, Voyage to Galopogas and other

development grants for science education products (2011–present).

Behavioral Research and Technology. Data analysis on response to intervention data

(2015–2017).

Educational Testing Service. Working on models for pause times in reading (2012–2014).