March 2012

• What is psychometrics (mandatory course in the IOPS curriculum)
  Dates: 7-9 March 2012
  Instructors: Denny Borsboom, Paul De Boeck, Willem Heiser, Henk Kelderman, Don Mellenberg, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
  Venue: Pieter de la Court Building, Faculty of Soocial Sciences, Leiden University
  Admission free for IOPS PhD students
• Meeting of the Working Group Structural Equation Modeling
  Dates: 22-23 March 2012
  Abstracts (before 10 February 201to: Suzanne Jak
• ETS Conference Educational Assessment, accountability and equity: Conversations on validity around the world 
  Dates: 28-29 March 2012
  Venue: Cowin Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.

April 2012

• Survey design (elective course in the IOPS curriculum)
  Registration form Survey design
  Dates: 12-13 April 2012
  Instructor: Jelke Bethlehem
  Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University
  Admission free for IOPS PhD students
• 2012 NCME graduate student poster session
  (NCME) National Council on Measurement in Education: A call for proposals
  Dates: 12-16 April 2012

May 2012

• Applied Bayesian Statistics (elective course in the IOPS curriculum)
  Dates: 7-11 May 2012 (new dates)
  Instructors: Herbert Hoijtink, Irene Klugkist, Ellen Hamaker, C. Rietbergen, Joran Jongerling, Hennie Boeije
  Venue: Utrecht, exact location to be announced in the first week of May 2012
  Enrolment: before 1 March 2012
  Admission free for IOPS PhD students
• New Style VOC Conference
  Date: 25 May 2012
  Venue: Tilburg University

June 2012

• Generalized latent variable modeling (elective course in the IOPS curriculum)
  Dates: 4-5 June 2012
  Instructor: Jeroen Vermunt (Tilburg University)
  Enrolment: before May 5,  2012
  Admission free for IOPS PhD students
  Non-IOPS PhD students can participate if places are available after 5 May 2012
• IOPS 27th summer conference
  Dates: 28-29 June 2012
  Venue: Maastricht, The Netherlands

July 2012

• Pre-conference workshops, ITC Conference
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Date: 2 July 2012
• Bayesian modeling for cognitive science: A WinBUGS workshop
  Dates: 2-6 July 2012 (five-day course sequence)
  Venue: Euclides building, Plantage Muidergracht 22-24 1018, TV in Amsterdam
• 8th ITC Conference
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Dates: 3-5 July 2012

August 2012

• GESIS-Summer School Survey Methodology
  Dates: 9-25 August 2012
  venue: Cologne, Germany
• Introduction to SEM using MPlus
  Dates: 13 August 2012 – 17 August 2012 (1 week)
  Course instructors: Dr. Rens van de Schoot, Dr. Peter Lugtig & Prof. Dr. Joop Hox
  Venue: Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Advanced course on using Mplus
  Dates: 20 August 2012 - 24 August 2012 (1 week)
  Course instructors: Dr. Rens van de Schoot, Dr. Peter Lugtig & Prof. Dr. Joop Hox
  Venue: Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Applied multivariate analysis
  Dates: 20 August 2012 - 24 August 2012 (1 week)
  Course director: Dr. Ellen Hamaker
  Venue: Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Introduction to multilevel analysis
  Dates: 20 August 2012 – 23 August 2012 (0.5 week)
  Course director: Dr. Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij
  Venue: Utrecht, The Netherlands
• New features of MPlus
  Dates: 27 August 2012 – 29 August 2012 (0.5 week)
  Workshop instructors: Bengt Muthen and Tihomir Asparouhov
  Venue: Utrecht, The Netherlands
• MPlus user meeting
  Date: 30 August 2012
  Venue: Utrecht, The Netherlands

• ETS Conference Educational Assessment, accountability and equity: Conversations on validity around the world 
  Dates: 28-29 March 2012
  Venue: Cowin Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 2012 NCME graduate student poster session
  (NCME) National Council on Measurement in Education: A call for proposals
  Dates: 12-16 April 2012
• New Style VOC Conference
  Date: 25 May 2012
  Venue: Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• IOPS 27th summer conference
  Dates: 28-29 June 2012
  Venue: Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Pre-conference workshops, ITC Conference
  Date: 2 July 2012
  Venue: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 8th ITC Conference
  Dates: 3-5 July 2012
  Venue: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Previous IOPS conferences

• 21st IOPS winter conference
  Dates: 8-9 December 2011
  Venue: Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
• 26th IOPS summer conference Leuven
  Dates: Wednesday and Thursday 29-30 June 2011
  Venue: K.U.Leuven, Belgium
• 20th IOPS winter conference
  Dates: 16-17 December 2010
  Venue: Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• 25th IOPS summer conference
  Dates: 10-11 June 2010
  Venue: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 19th IOPS winter conference-Cito
  Dates: 10-11 December 2009
  Venue: Cito, Arnhem, The Netherlands
• 24th IOPS summer conference
  Dates: 18-19 June 2009
  Venue: Tilburg University, Tilburg, , The Netherlands