Invited Presentations
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2025, March). Cognitive Science Seminar Spring 2025. Organized by John Sabatini (Institute for Intelligent Systems: IIS) and Karen Weddle-West (College of Education) at the University of Memphis, and Ladislao Salmeron (University of Valencia, Spain). Virtual.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2025, March). Virtual Session on Validity. Organized by Sergio Araneda and FEVED (Foro Chileno de Profesionales en Evaluación Educacional). Video available in Spanish.https://youtu.be/gFTzYNfN_Sg?feature=shared
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2024, April). Challenges and Innovations in Creating Interactive Reports of Student Progress and Growth Coordinated Paper Session. Discussant. The annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Denver, CO.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Nov 2024). Designing and Evaluating Interactive Reporting Systems. Invited Speaker to the Medical Education and Assessment Invited Researcher Series. (Virtual).
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Nov 2024). Workshop on AI-Enhanced Reporting Systems. Medical Education and Assessment. (Virtual).
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Oct 2024). Invited keynote presentation on Technology-Enhanced Assessment Systems: Opportunities and Challenges. IEEE ETCM 2024. Cuenca, Ecuador.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Oct 2024). Reporting Results. Invited panelist. Smarter Balanced TAC meeting panel. Redondo Beach, California, October2 024 October Papers/Publications.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Oct 2024). AI in Assessment and Learning: Opportunities and Challenges. Edusoft Excellence Summit. ETS. Princeton. 2024
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Oct 2024). Score Reporting in Digital Assessments. Global Academy Workshop Agenda West African Examinations Council. Princeton, NJ. (Virtual session).
Zapata-Rivera, D., & Forsyth, C. (Sep 2024). Exploring the Use of Generative AI in Conversation-Based Assessment. The 12th Annual Expert Workshop: “Assessing Early Successes, Challenges, and the Potential of Generative AI in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Organized by University of Memphis Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center - Simulation & Training Technology Center. Orlando, Florida.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Jul 2024) Invited panelist to the Industry Panel at EDM 2024. Generative AI in Education. Atlanta. GA.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Apr 2024). Technology-Enhanced Assessment Systems: Opportunities and Challenges. IEEE Education Society Distinguished Lecturer Panel. IEEE Education Week - Virtual event.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Apr 2024). AI in Education: Opportunities and Challenges. CAHSI Convening: Broadening Participation in AI. Washington, DC.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Apr 2024) Discussant for Challenges and Innovations in Creating Interactive Reports of Student Progress and Growth Coordinated Paper Session. Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (Mar 2024) Panelist at UTSA Research Professionals Panel on Research at ETS. Virtual
Song, Y., and Zapata-Rivera, D., (Sep 2023). Argumentation Demo at ED Games Expo organized by IES in Washington, DC.
Zapata-Rivera, D., (Sep 2023) Invited Speaker at the Federal STEM Strategic Planning | Roundtable on: AI and STEM Education. Organized by OSTP, NSF and IES. Virtual.
Zapata-Rivera (Sep 2023) Experience You Skill Profile Demo. ETS AI Expo. ETS. Virtual.
Zapata-Rivera, D., (2020, July). Adaptive Learning and Assessment Environments. Presentation to students from the ETS UGRAD-GRAD network. All-Team Session-AI & Assessment. Virtual presentation. Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, D., (2020, June). Opportunities and Challenges for Embedded Assessments in XR. Special Session. iLRN 2020 Virtual Conference.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2019, October). Current, Future, and Aspirational State of Assessment. Invited talk at the Symposium on Digital Education. Salve Regina University Campus. Newport, RI.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2019). Designing and Evaluating Reports for Particular Audiences of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Expert Panel Workshop on Data Visualization. ARL and University of Memphis. Orlando, FL
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2019). Caring Assessments. Presentation at the Taxing the African-American Student: The Impact and Mitigation of Structural Stigma on Test Performance and School Success organized by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Catherine Millett, and Michael Nettles. Princeton, April 15-17.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2019). Adaptive Learning and Assessment Environments. Presentation to a group of representatives from the Laureate group of universities in an event organized by EduSoft. Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2019). Embedded Formative Assessment. Presentation to the On the Spot Assessment team, an NSF project that explores tools for helping scientists improve their engagements with various audiences during outreach events. National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Charlottesville, VA.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2018, April). Supporting Effective Communication and Appropriate Use of Assessment Results. Featured Invited Session: We Can Do This: Communicating Information from Educational Assessments. The 2018 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education, New York City, NY.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2014, June). Presented at the Panel on Grand Challenges for Intelligent Tutoring Systems in STEM: Progress and Perspectives. 12th International conference on Intelligence Tutoring Systems. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Jackson, T., and Katz, I. R. (2014, June). Authoring Conversation-based Assessment Scenarios. ARL-IIS Advisory Board Meeting on Authoring Systems. Pittsburgh, PA.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2013, April). “Let’s Talk About How You Did”: Research on Communicating Student Performance to Connect Assessment and Learning.” Symposium Discussant at annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). San Francisco, CA.
Zapata Rivera, D., (2012, June). Embedded Assessment of Informal and Afterschool Science Learning. Summit on Assessment of Informal and After-School Science Learning organized by the National Research Council (NRC). Irvine, CA. Retrieved from http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/1Informal_Ed_ZapataRivera_2012_Paper.pdf
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2012, April). Discussant for the Symposium on Technology Enhanced Assessments. Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). Vancouver, BC. Canada.
Zapata-Rivera, J. D. (2006, September). Flexible Belief Models (FBM) -Modeling flexible belief structures. The second workshop of the Center for Complex Learning and the Application of Knowledge (CLAK), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Shute, V. J., & Zapata-Rivera, J. D. (2005, November). Tools to support eLearning. Invited presentation at the University of Memphis eLearning Summit, co-hosted by ADL, Memphis, TN.
Zapata-Rivera, J. D. (2005, April-May). New technologies and learning environments. Graduate level lecture at EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia.
Refereed Presentations
Zapata-Rivera, D., Lehman, B., Lopez, A., Gooch, R., & Long, R. (2025, April). Designing and evaluating AI-enhanced interactive reports with teachers. [Coordinated Session]. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO.
Stacho, L., Graf, E., A., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2025, April). Explorations in using student solution pathways and LLMs for enhanced mathematical learning. In session Applications of generative AI to mathematics education: Opportunities and challenges [Coordinated paper session]. The annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Denver, CO.
Yan, D., Almond, R., Zapata-Rivera, D., & Mislevy, R. J. (2025, April). Applications of Bayesian networks in the age of AI. [Training Session]. The annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Denver, CO.
Kannan, P., Zapata-Rivera, D., Feinberg, R., O’Donnell, F., Zenisky, A. (2025, April 23). Tools and Strategies for the Design and Evaluation of Interactive Dashboard Reports. [Training Session]. The annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Denver, CO.
Pinto, J. D., Tenison, C., Lehman, B., Beigman Klebanov, B., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2025, April). Micro-models of student engagement: A bottom-up approach to learner modeling. Paper submitted to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO.
Sparks, J.R., Ober, T., Lehman, B., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2024, April). Leveraging background knowledge measures to predict performance in scenario-based assessments. Paper presented at NCME 2024.
Ling, G., Forsyth, C. M., Lehman, B., Hoang, A., Kiser, K., & Zapata-Rivera, D., (2024, April) Ai Mapping Of Learning And Working Experience Into A Skill-Based Profile. Paper presented at NCME 2024.
Sparks, J.R., Lehman, B., Ober, T., Zapata-Rivera, D., Steinberg, J., McCulla, L. (2023, October). Linking students’ funds of knowledge to task engagement and performance: Toward culturally responsive “caring assessments”. Paper presented in coordinated symposium session at the 7th Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment conference, Chicago, IL.
Zapata-Rivera, D., (2023, April). Challenges and Opportunities in Score Reporting [NCME Book Series]. Virtual Organized Discussion at the 2023 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL.
Kannan, P., Zapata-Rivera, D., Feinberg, R., Zenisky, A. L T. (2023, April). Tools and Strategies for the Design and Evaluation of Interactive Dashboard Reports, Workshop presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL.
Yan, D., Almond, R. G, &. Zapata-Rivera, D., (2023, April). Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment. Tutorial at the 2023 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education. Chicago, IL.
Yan, D., Almond, R. G, &. Zapata-Rivera, D., (2021, June). Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment. Tutorial at the 2019 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education. Toronto, ON.
Arslan, B., Zapata-Rivera, D., LaMar, M., Katz, I. R., Moon, J., Bauer, M., & Lester, J. (2020, accepted). Computational Cognitive Modeling and Educational Assessment. Workshop accepted to the 2020 SIG-Cognition and Assessment.at AERA 2020, San Francisco, CA.
Oliveri, M., Rupp, A., Zapata-Rivera, D., Slomp, D., & Mislevy, R. (2020, accepted). Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Assessments. Coordinated Session accepted to the 2020 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA.
Sparks, J.R., Steinberg, J., Castellano, K., Lehman, B., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2020, accepted). Generating Individual Difference Profiles via Cluster Analysis: Toward Caring Assessments for Science. Poster accepted to the annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA.
Kannan, P., Zapata-Rivera, D., Slater, S. C., Zenisky, A. L., & Brown, G. T. (2020, accepted). Tools and Strategies for the Design and Evaluation of Score Reports, Workshop accepted to the 2020 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Lehman, B., Jackson, G.T., & Liu, L. (2019, April) Refining Conversation-Based Assessments of Science Inquiry Skills. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Toronto, ON.
Jackson, G.T., Zapata-Rivera, D., Lehman, B., & Liu, L. (2019, April) Enhancing Scenario-Based Assessment of Science Inquiry Through Automated Conversations. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Toronto, ON.
Sparks, J. R., Peters, S., Steinberg, J., James, K., Lehman, B., & Zapata-Rivera, D., (2019, April) Individual Difference Measures that Predict Performance on Conversation-Based Assessments of Science Inquiry Skills. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Toronto, ON
Lehman, B., & Zapata-Rivera, D., (2019, April) The Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Ability, Test Experience, and Performance. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Toronto, ON.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Kannan, P., Slater, S., Zenisky, A.,& Brown, G. (2019, April) Tools and Strategies for the Design and Evaluation of Score Reports. Toronto, Tutorial at the 2019 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education. Toronto, ON.
Yan, D., Almond, R. G, Levy, R., &.Zapata-Rivera, D., & (2019, April). Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment. Tutorial at the 2019 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education. Toronto, ON.
Peters, S., Forsyth, C.M., & Zapata-Rivera, (2019, April). Communicating process data to teachers for conversation-based assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of Measurement in Education, Toronto, ON.
Yan, D., Zapata-Rivera, D., Almond, R. G., & Levy, R. (2018, April). Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment. Tutorial at the 2018 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education. New York City, NY.
Lehman, B., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2018, April). Frequency, intensity, and mixed emotions, oh my! Investigating control-value theory in conversation-based assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New York City, NY.
Lehman, B., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2018, April). Examining convergent and discriminant validity evidence for a self-report test-taking motivation measure. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New York City, NY.
Hebert, D., & Zapata-Rivera (2018, April). Intelligent Support for Collaboration: A Literature Review and Proposed Framework. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New York City, NY.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2017, July). Toward caring assessment systems. Poster presented at the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2017), Bratislava, Slovakia.
Zapata-Rivera, D., & Lange, P. (2017, June). Intelligent Support for Collaboration. Presentation at the workshop on the EPCAL Platform. The 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Philadelphia, PA.
Hao, J., Liu, L., Andrews, J. J., Zapata-Rivera, D., von Davier, A., & Graesser, A. (2017, June). EPCAL Platform: Computer-supported collaborative assessment and learning at scale. Workshop for the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Philadelphia, PA
Kannan, P., Bryant, A. D., Zapata-Rivera, D., & Peters, S. (2017, April). Evaluating parent comprehension of measurement error presented in score reports. Paper presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education, San Antonio, TX.
Yan, D., Almond, R. G., Levy, R., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2017, April). Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment. Tutorial at the 2017 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education, San Antonio, TX.
Peters, S., Forsyth, C.M., Lentini, J., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2017, April). Score Reports for Conversation-Based Assessments: Identifying and Interpreting Evidence. Poster presented at the annual American Education Research Association (AERA), Conference in San Antonio, TX.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Jackson, T. & Katz, I. R. (2016, August). Exploring the Use of Conversations with Virtual Agents in Assessment Contexts. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA.
Sparks, J., Andrews, J., Zapata-Rivera, D., Lehman, B. & James, K. (2016, August). Source Expertise and Question Type Effects in Conversation-Based Assessment. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA.
Jackson, G. T., Castellano, K., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2016, August). Measuring Cognitive Skills through Conversation-Based Assessment. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA.
Kannan, P., Zapata-Rivera, D., & Leibowitz, E. A. (2016, April). Evaluating Validity of Score Reports with Diverse Subgroups of Parents. Paper presented at NCME 2016. Washington DC.
Shute, V., & Zapata-Rivera, D., (2016, April). Representing and Visualizing Beliefs. Paper presented at NCME 2016. Washington DC.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2015, August) Conversation-based Assessments. Poster presented at the CRESST Conference 2015: Making Games and Technology Work for Learning, Assessment and Instruction, Redondo Beach, CA.
Forsyth, C. M., So, Y., Luce, C., Battistini, L., Evanini, K., Zapata-Rivera, D., Tao, J., and Jackson, G. T. (2015, April) Comparing Trialogue-based Tasks with Other Assessment Tasks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.
Li, H., Graesser, A. C., Zapata-Rivera, D., Lehman, B., and Jackson, G. T. (2015, April) Comparing Trialogue-based Tasks with Other Assessment Tasks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.
Jackson, G. T., Zapata-Rivera, D., Liu, L., and Vezzu, M. (2015, April) Evaluating conversation patterns to elicit evidence of students’ science reasoning skills. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.
Katz, I. R. Zapata-Rivera, D., Bertling, M., Jackson, T., Lederer, N. & Kiser, K. (2015, April) Automated Testing of Conversation-based Assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.
Liu, L., Jackson, T., Zapata-Rivera, D., Hao, J., and Bejar, I. (2015, April) Conversation-Based Assessment of Science Inquiry Skills: Designing and Scoring Issues. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Zwick, R., and Vezzu M. (2015, April) Exploring the Effectiveness of a Measurement Error Tutorial for Teachers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Chicago, IL.
Li, H., Jackson, G. T and Zapata-Rivera, D. (2015, April) Comparing Conversation-Based Scenarios to Traditional Assessment Methods. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Chicago, IL.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2014). Presented at the Panel on Grand Challenges for Intelligent Tutoring Systems in STEM: Progress and Perspectives. 12th International conference on Intelligence Tutoring Systems.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Jackson, T., and Katz, I. R. (2014) Assessing Conversation-based Assessment Scenarios. ARL-IIS Advisory Board Meeting on Authoring Systems. Pittsburgh, PA.
Katz, I.R., Bauer, M.I., Cayton-Hodges, G., Feng, G., Jackson, G.T., Keehner, M., and Zapata-Rivera, J.D. (July, 2014). The Cognitive Science Research Group at Educational Testing Service. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Quebec.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2014) Automated Scoring in Game-Based Assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Vezzu, M., Nabors Olah, L, Leusner, D., Biggers, K., and Bertling, M. (2014) Designing and Evaluating Score Reports for Parents who are English Language Learners. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia.
Fu, J., Zapata-Rivera, D., and Mavronikolas, E. (2014) Statistical Methods for Assessments in Simulations and Serious Games. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia.
Liu, L., von Davier, A., Hao, J., Kyllonen, P., and Zapata-Rivera, D. (2014) A Tough Nut to Crack: Measuring Collaborative Problem Solving. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia.
Hao, J., von Davier, A., Liu, L., Kyllonen, P., and Zapata-Rivera, D. (2014) Investigating Collaborative Problem Solving with Extended Trialogue Tasks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Philadelphia.
Song, Y., Sparks, J., Brantley, W., Oliveri, M., and Zapata-Rivera, D. (2014) Designing Game Activities to Assess Students’ Argumentation Skills. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia.
Zapata-Rivera, D., So, Y., Cho, Y, & Vezzu, M. (2013) Using Trialogues to Measure English Language Skills. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Vezzu M., & K. Biggers (2013) Supporting Teacher Communication with Parents and Students Using Score Reports. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco.
Zapata Rivera, D., (2012) Embedded Assessment of Informal and Afterschool Science Learning. Summit on Assessment of Informal and After-School Science Learning Retrieved from https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/dbassesite/documents/webpage/dbasse_072564.pdf
Zapata-Rivera, D., Liu, L., Katz, I., Bauer, M., Chen, S.K., Rogat, A., & Vezzu M. (2012) Exploring the Use of Game Elements in the Development of Innovative Assessment Tasks for Science. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, CA.
Zapata-Rivera, D., Vezzu, M., & VanWinkle, W. (2012). Exploring Teachers’ Understanding of Graphical Representations of Group Performance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, CA.
Zwick, R., Zapata-Rivera, D., & Hegarty, M., (2012) Comparing Graphical and Verbal Representations of Measurement Error In Test Score Reports. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
Zapata, D., & VanWinkle, W., & Zwick, R. (2011). Exploring Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Assessment Results. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.
Zapata, D. (April, 2011). Designing Score Reports that Help Teachers Make Instructional Decisions. Paper presented the annual meeting of the Educational Research Association conference (AERA), New Orleans, LA.
VanWinkle, W., Vezzu, M., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2011). Question-Based Reports for Policymakers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.
Vezzu, M., VanWinkle, W., & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2011). Designing and Evaluating an Interactive Score Report for Students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.
Hansen, E. & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2011) Evidence-Centered Design (ECD) for Designing Accessible Technology-Literacy Assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Zapata-Rivera, D., & VanWinkle, W. (2010) Designing and Evaluating Web-based Score Reports for Teachers in the Context of a Learning-Centered Assessment System. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Zapata-Rivera, D. & VanWinkle, W., & Zwick, R. (2010). Exploring effective communication and appropriate use of assessment results through teacher score reports. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
Hansen, E. & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2010) Designing Assessment-for-Learning (AfL) Systems for Diverse Students: A Game-based AfL for Learning Middle School Mathematics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
Hansen, E. & Zapata-Rivera, D. (2010) Evidence Centered Design (ECD) for the Design of Learning-and-Assessment Environments for Diverse Learners. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2009, April). Assessment-based Gaming Environments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, California, April 15, 2009.
Feng, M., & Hansen, E. G., Zapata-Rivera, D. (2009, April). Using Evidence Centered Design for Learning (ECDL) to examine the Assistments system. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, California, 15 April 2009.
Zapata-Rivera, D., & Hansen, E. G. (2009, April). Analyzing the educational potential of existing games using evidence-centered design and cognitive task analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, California, April 15, 2009.
Hansen, E. G., Zapata-Rivera, D., & Feng, M. (2009, April). Evidence Centered Design for Developing High-Quality Learning-Centered Assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, California, April 13, 2009.
Hansen, E. G., Zapata-Rivera, D., & Feng, M. (2009, April). Beyond Accessibility: Evidence Centered Design for Improving the Efficiency of Learning-Centered Assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, California. April 16, 2009.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2008, March). Development of pragmatic competence in request speech acts: A game of persuasion. AERA Annual Meeting, New York.
Katz, I. R., Williamson, D. M., Nadelman, H. L., Kirsch, I., Almond, R. G., Cooper, P. L., Redman, M. L., and Zapata, D. (2004). Assessing Information and Communications Technology Literacy for Higher Education. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Educational Assessment, Philadelphia, PA.
Global Institute Presentations to External Guests
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2014, September). Evidence-Centered Design (ECD): Overview and Example. A presentation given to guests from Malaysia, Chile, Japan, Brazil, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Kenya. ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2013, December). Evidence-Centered Design (ECD). A presentation given to guests from various universities and government agencies from the following countries: Malaysia, Taiwan, Chile, Nigeria, Macao, Mexico, and US. ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2013, July). Evidence-Centered Design and Assessment. A presentation given to guests from the Nigeria Examination Council (NECO). ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2013, June). Designing and Evaluating Score Reports for Particular Audiences. A presentation given to guests from Armenia and the World Bank. ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2013, February). Evidence-Centered Design and Assessment. A presentation given to guests from the Ministry of Education Chile and the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) Nigeria. ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2011, December). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Innovative Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from Nigeria and Brazil, ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2011, September). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Innovative Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from Tanzania, Pakistan and India, ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2011, April). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Innovative Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from Botswana, ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2011, March). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Innovative Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from ETS France, ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2010, July). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Innovative Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from several countries, ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2010, January). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Innovative Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from Omani Ministry of Education, ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2009, June). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from The Institute for the Promotion of teaching Science and Technology (IPST) in Thailand. Design and Development of Teacher Assessments. ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2009, May). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from The Canadian Institute for Chartered Accountants. ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2009, May). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from The United Nations - New York. ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2009, February). Evidence-Centered Design: Overview and Example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from The Nigerian Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the Nigerian National Educational, and Stellenbosch University (South Africa). ETS Global Institute. Princeton, NJ
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2008, November). Evidence-centered design: Overview and example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from the El Departamento de Evaluación, Medición y Registro Educacional de la Universidad de Chile (DEMRE), ETS Global Institute, Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2008, July). Evidence-centered design & example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from the National Examinations Council of Nigeria, ETS Global Institute, Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, D. (2008, May). Evidence-centered design & example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from the Malaysian Examination Syndicate, Ministry of Education, Malaysia, ETS Global Institute, Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, J. D. (2007, December). Evidence-centered design & example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from various testing organizations in Korea, ETS Global Institute, Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, J. D. (2007, October). Evidence-centered design & example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from Russia, ETS Global Institute, Princeton, NJ.
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Zapata-Rivera, J. D. (2007, September). Evidence-center design & example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from the National Education Examination Authority (NEEA-China), ETS Global Institute, Princeton, NJ.
Zapata-Rivera, J. D. (2007, June). Evidence-center design & example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from various Nigerian examination organizations, ETS Global Institute, Princeton, NJ.
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Zapata-Rivera, J. D. (2006, December). Evidence-center design & example. A presentation given to a group of visitors from the Ministry of Education of Nigeria, ETS Global Institute, Princeton, NJ.
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