Conference on Advanced Psychometric Methods in Cognitive Aging Research

认知衰老研究中的高级心理测量方法会议

• 批准号: 8667376
• 负责人: DAN M. MUNGAS
• 金额: $ 4.39万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8667376
• 关键词: Address; Aging; Alzheimer' s Disease; Area; Clinical Research; Cognition; Cognition Disorders; Cognitive; Cognitive aging; Collaborations; Data; Data Analyses; Data Set; Diagnosis; Disease; Early Diagnosis; Education; Educational Status; Educational workshop; Elderly; Environment; Ethnic Origin; Faculty; Feedback; Funding; Gender; Genetic; Goals; Grant; Impaired cognition; Institution; Intervention Studies; Journals; Learning; Logistics; Manuscripts; Measurement; Measures; Mentors; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Monitor; Older Population; Outcome; Participant; Peer Review; Personal Satisfaction; Play; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevalence; Production; Psychometrics; Public Health; Publications; Randomized Controlled Trials; Research; Research Design; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Role; Science; Seasons; Series; Shapes; Statistical Methods; Statistical Models; Techniques; Testing; Training; aging brain; base; cognitive function; data modeling; design; disease diagnosis; experience; graduate student; improved; innovation; interest; meetings; next generation; prevent; programs; public health relevance; response; statistics; symposium; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The rapid increase in the older segment of the population has stimulated intense scientific interest in normal and pathological cognitive functioning in older adults. The increasing prevalence with advancing age of debilitating diseases like Alzheimer's disease has led to a need for clinical and research methods for measurement of effects of these diseases, and cognitive tests play a major role in detecting, diagnosing and monitoring disease status and progression. Increasing demographic diversity creates special challenges for accurate measurement of cognition. Most cognitive tests that are in clinical and research use were developed using psychometric methods from the first half of the 20th century. There have been substantial advances in measurement theory and methodology, notably item response theory (IRT) and associated latent variable modeling methods, that could have an important impact on the measurement of cognition, study design, and analysis of cognitive variables. This conference series is designed to promote the application of modern psychometric methods in research on cognitive aging. Specific goals are: 1) to expose developing and established researchers in cognitive aging to modern psychometric and statistical modeling techniques, 2) to expose experts in psychometric theory and statistics to the practical and theoretical concerns of cognitive aging research, and 3) encourage production of manuscripts based on the collaborations of researchers, psychometricians, and statisticians during these conferences. We have conducted five successful annual conferences in the initial funding cycle of this grant. This experience has helped to shape our plans for the next generation of conferences. The format of the conferences will include didactic presentations by experts in cognitive aging and applied psychometric theory, demonstrations of psychometric and statistical analytic methods, and most importantly, hands-on experience using real data. This content and format is not only appropriate for encouraging education and collaboration of seasoned researchers but has also been an extremely effective learning environment for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. Conference themes for the proposed five-year renewal period include aging brains in aging bodies, intervention studies, earliest cognitive decline associated with diseases of aging, measurement intensive longitudinal research designs, and genetics of cognitive aging. As in previous years, there will be a heavy emphasis on workgroups organized around scientific analyses of real data, and we plan to disseminate the information resulting from these workshops in both traditional academic outlets (e.g. submission of manuscripts for peer reviewed scientific journals) and through symposia at annual scientific conferences.

描述（由申请人提供）：老年人群的快速增长激发了对老年人正常和病理性认知功能的强烈科学兴趣。随着年龄的增长，衰弱性疾病如阿尔茨海默病的患病率不断增加，这导致需要用于测量这些疾病的影响的临床和研究方法，并且认知测试在检测、诊断和监测疾病状态和进展中起着重要作用。日益增加的人口多样性为准确测量认知带来了特殊挑战。大多数临床和研究使用的认知测试都是使用世纪上半叶的心理测量方法开发的。测量理论和方法有了很大的进步，特别是项目反应理论（IRT）和相关的潜变量建模方法，这可能对认知的测量，研究设计和认知变量的分析产生重要影响。该系列会议旨在促进现代心理测量方法在认知老化研究中的应用。具体目标是：1）使认知老化的发展中和成熟的研究人员接触现代心理测量和统计建模技术，2）使心理测量理论和统计学专家接触认知老化研究的实践和理论问题，3）鼓励在这些会议期间根据研究人员，心理测量师和统计学家的合作制作手稿。我们在该赠款的初始供资周期内成功举办了五次年度会议。这一经验有助于我们制定下一代会议的计划。会议的形式将包括认知老化和应用心理测量理论专家的教学演示，心理测量和统计分析方法的演示，最重要的是，使用真实的数据的实践经验。这种内容和形式不仅适合于鼓励经验丰富的研究人员的教育和合作，而且也是研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师的一个非常有效的学习环境。拟议的五年更新期的会议主题包括衰老身体中的衰老大脑、干预研究、与衰老疾病相关的最早认知衰退、测量密集型纵向研究设计和认知衰老的遗传学。与往年一样，将着重强调围绕对真实的数据进行科学分析而组织的工作组，我们计划通过传统的学术渠道（例如向同行审查的科学期刊提交手稿）和通过年度科学会议的专题讨论会传播这些讲习班产生的信息。