Table of contents

Table of contents

Part I: AI psychometric foundations

Definition and introduction to foundational concepts in AI psychometrics, positioning transformers as a threshold capability marking a milestone in AI psychometrics.

What is AI psychometrics?Reasons for AI psychometric progress What’s in an LLM?Encoder architecturesDecoder architecturesEncoder-decoder architecturesTraining a small LLM yourselfLLMs and psychometric bias

Part 2: Methods and tools

Use of AI to develop the building blocks of assessments, including agents and multi-agent systems in task analysis, test blueprinting, test administration, scoring, and feedback.

Moral foundations as a use caseDo moral foundations matter in business?Semantic convergent and discriminant validityAI item generation strategiesGenerating items via an API

Part 3: Psychometric analyses

Introduces semantic alignment for item validity, pseudo factor analysis, network analyses, and convex hulls with applications to item analysis and free text scoring.

Semantic item alignmentSemantic item alignment resultsPseudo factor analysis Pseudo factor analysis resultsConvex hull analysesEmbedding compositionsArtificial crowdsModel fine tuning

Part 4: Hybrid models

Integrating transformers with other computational psychometric methods, such as predictive ensembles with embeddings as inputs.

Part 5: Critical perspectives

Limitations, ethical and privacy concerns, including geographic/cultural differences in expectations, as well as future directions.

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