Coordinating meeting and Workshop of the Tempus Project

Aalto University, School of Science and Technology, Espoo, Finland
(Main building, Otakaari 1)

April 23th–27th, 2010

Note! The event will be held, but there is going to be some changes in the program.

Fri April 23th (hall K)

• 13:00–17.00 Group work (U325)

Mon April 26th (hall G; seminar in U322)

• 10:00–10:40 Mari-Anna Suurmunne: Presentation of Aalto University
• 10:45–11:05 Dmitrii Silvestrov: Presentation of the Tempus program
• 11:05–11:30 Discussion
• 11:30–13:00 Lunch
• 13.00–13.45 Sakari Ahola, R.U.S.E., University of Turku: Bologna à la Finlandese – reforming Finnish higher education with all ingredients
• 13.45–14.30 Juha Hedman, R.U.S.E., University of Turku: Performance of universities and their ranking methods
• 14:30–14:50 Avramenko Olga, Kirovograd State Pedagogical University: Training of BA level students in Educational Measurements: first experience and problem-solving
• 14:50–15:10 Kovalchuk Yurij, Nizhin State Mykola Gogol University: Domain sampling approach to test construction
• 15:10–15:30 Sergienko Volodymyr, National State Dragomanov University: Development of specialisation "Educational Measurements" in National State Dragomanov University
• 16:00–18.00 Seminar on Stochastics (U322)
  • – Dmitrii Silvestrov: Reselling of options
  • – Raimondo Manca: The claim reserve as an insurance company realibility measure
  • – Hanspeter Schmidli: On risk processes conditioned on ruin
  • – Esko Valkeila: Path-wise integrals with respect to fractional Brownian motion: are the integral representations unique?

Tue April 27th (hall E)

Workshop on educational measurements

• 9:30–11:30 Group work
• 11:30–13:00 Lunch
• 13:00–13:40 Matti Pursula: The Bologna process at Helsinki University of Technology
• 13:45–14:15 Riikka Rissanen: How to measure students' workload
• 14:20–14:40 Antti Rasila: Measuring new student skills and learning styles in Aalto University
• 14:40–15:00 Closing discussion

Organizing team:

• Esko Valkeila, Evelina Silvestrova, Dmitrii Silvestrov, Anna-Kaarina Kairamo, Antti Rasila, Paula Hämäläinen