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STEFANO NOVENTA
Position
Ricercatore a t.d art. 24 c.3 L.240/2010, L.79/2022 (RTT)
Address
VIA VENEZIA, 8 - PADOVA
Telephone
0498277176
Assistant Professor (Researcher with Tenure Track, RTT, Department of General
Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8619-6045
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EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
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25/05/2022
National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor for the
academic scientific recruitment field and discipline 11/PSIC-01/C for
psychometrics
28/03/2011
Ph.D. in Cognitive Science earned at University of Padova, Department of
Developmental Psychology and Socialization
23/03/2006
MSc. in Physics earned at University of Padova, Department of Physics and
Astronomy
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PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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09/2019 – 01/2025
Tenured lecturer and research fellow (Unbefristeter Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter) at the Methods Center (Methodenzentrum), Faculty of Economics
and Social Sciences, Ebherard-Karls Universität Tübingen. Head of
Institute: Prof. Dr. Augustin Kelava
04/2018 – 09/2019
Postdoctoral researcher at the Methods Center, Faculty of Economics and
Social Sciences, Ebherard-Karls Universität Tübingen. Scientific
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Augustin Kelava
12/2016 – 04/2018
Postdoctoral researcher at the Hector Research Institute of Education
Sciences and Psychology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
Ebherard-Karls Universität Tübingen. Scientific Supervisor: Prof. Dr.
Augustin Kelava
09/2012 – 08/2016
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Verona, Centro Docimologico. Project
title: “Assessment of measurement scales and evaluation of items:
theoretical analysis and implementation of PHP modules for the elaboration of
exams by means of Rasch models and optical mark recognition (OMR).”
Scientific supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Favretto
05/2011 – 04/2012
Postdoctoral researcher (European Social Fund in collaboration with the
Veneto Region) at Department of general Psychology, University of Padova.
Project title: " Decision-making aspects and cognitive processes in
purchasing behavior". Scientific Supervisors: Prof. Mariaelena Tagliabue and
Prof. Giulio Vidotto. Project code 2105/101/1/1102/2010
2009 – 2010
International Visiting Graduate Student at University of Toronto, Institute
of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Kenneth H.
Norwich e Prof. Dr. Willy Wong
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AFFILIATIONS
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2025 - Today
Member of The Research Platform of IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Venice
2020 – Today
Member of the Society for Mathematical Psychology
2018 – Today
Member of the Psychometric Society
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TEACHING DUTIES
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University of Padova, Department of General Psychology, Italy
Lecturer in the Master program in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive
Neuroscience
LECTURE: "Statistics for Brain and Cognitive Sciences" (6 CFU)
Lecturer in the Bachelor program Techniques and Methods in Psychological
Sciences
LECTURE: "Statistical Methods for Psychology" (9 CFU)
Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Methods Center, Faculty of Economics
and Social Sciences, Germany
Lecturer in the Master program. in Quantitative Data Science Methods:
Psychometrics, Econometrics, and Machine Learning
LECTURE: "Item Response Theory" (6 CFU)
LECTURE: "Mathematical Models in Psychology" (6 CFU)
SEMINAR "Methodological Counseling in Graduate Studies" (3 CFU)
CO-LECTURE: “Categorical Data Analysis” (3 CFU)
LECTURE: "Programming in R" (3 CFU)
LECTURE: "Psychometrics" (6 CFU)
CO-LECTURE: "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design" (3 CFU).
SEMINAR: "Knowledge Space Theory and Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling" (3CFU)
SEMINAR: "Multilevel models" (3 CFU)
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PARTICIPATION TO FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
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2026 – 2028
Co-PI of PRID Project SONAR - Soundscapes Of Nature: Affective Restoration
through Circadian and Familiarity-Driven Birdsong, PI Prof.ssa Francesca
Pazzaglia
2021 – 2024
PI of the Research Project NO 1505/2-1 funded by the DFG (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation).
Title: "On a generalization of the local independence assumption in item
response theory"
2016 – 2021
Member of the research group of Prof. Dr. Augustin Kelava (Universität
Tübingen) in the NON-NORM project (concerning the development of nonlinear
models for latent variables), funded by the DFG (KE 1664/1-1-1, KE 1664/1-2,
BR 5175-1-2).
2014 – 2016
Member of the Research Project Co.S.M.O - Competences Software Management for
Organizations, co-funded by the Joint Project 2014 (891854), University of
Verona. Joint Project partnership between Centro Docimologico, University of
Verona, and DVG Solving Snc, Mantova. Project leaders: Prof. Giuseppe
Favretto, Prof. Serena Cubico
2011 – 2012
Postdoctoral research grant funded by the European Social Fund in
collaboration with the Veneto Region. Project title: "Decision-making aspects
and cognitive processes in purchasing behavior" developed in collaboration
with the company Stonefly S.p.A. under the scientific supervision of Prof.
Mariaelena Tagliabue and Prof. Giulio Vidotto. Project code
2105/101/1/1102/2010
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EDITORIAL ACTIVITES
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2025
Ad hoc reviewer for the America National Science Foundation (NSF), panel
Decision, Risk & Mgmt Sci program.
2024 – Today
Member of the Editorial Board (Consulting editor) of the “British Journal
of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology”.
2021 – Today
Member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of Measurement and Evaluation
in Education and Psychology”.
2021 – 2022
Ad hoc external reviewer and expert evaluator for the Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNSF), Humanities and Social Sciences Division.
2021
Appointed external reviewer for the Italian evaluation of the quality of
research products VQR 2015-2019 in the academic discipline M-PSI-03 and for
the ERC scientific areas PE1_14, PE1_20, SH4_5, SH4_7. Letter of appointment
signed on date 21/09/2021
2016 – Today
Ad-hoc reviewer for important scientific journals in the fields of
psychology, psychometrics, statistic, mathematical psychology, and
mathematics like British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology,
Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Psychometrika, Behaviour Research
Methods, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Proceedings of the
Royal Society A, Psychological Research, Frontiers in Psychology,
International Journal of Mental Health, Open Psychology, Helyon, SIAM Journal
of Imaging Sciences, PLOS ONE, Nature Humanities and Social Sciences
Communications.
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ORGANIZATIONS OF CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
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2026
Head of the local organizing committee for the Psychoco 2026 (psychometric
Computing Group), University of Padova, Italy, 5-6, February 2026
2025
Member of the local organizing committee for the European Mathematical
Psychology Group, University of Padova, Italy, 3-5, September 2025
2019
Member of the organizational and scientific committee of the "2019 Meeting of
the SEM Working Group" at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Festsaal
Alte Aula Münzgasse 30, 28 February - 1 March 2019
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INSTITUTIONAL DUTIES
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2026 – Today
Member of the delegation group DOR (Dotazione ordinaria ricerca, Ordinary
research funding), Department of general Psychology, University of Padova,
Italy
2025 – Today
Member of the degree program councils for Clinical Neuropsychology and
Cognitive Neuroscience and Techniques and Methods in Psychological Science,
Department of general Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
Member of the selection committee for Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive
Neuroscience, Department of general Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
Member of the degree program council for the PhD School in Psychology and
member of the monitoring committee for the cohort 2026-2027, University of
Padova, Italy
2022 – 2024
Member of the Committee of the Methods Center that chairs the organization of
the annual institute retreat, spring and fall schools, workshops, and
methodological colloquia, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
Universität Tübingen
Member of the Thesis Examination Committee for the M.Sc. in Quantitative Data
Science at Methods Center, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
Universität Tübingen
2021 – 2024
Substitute for the representative of postdoctoral students on the Methods
Center Council, Methods Center, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
Universität Tübingen.
2020 – 2024
Member of the Admissions Committee for the M.Sc. in Quantitative Data Science
at Methods Center, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Eberhard-Karls
Universität Tübingen. The M.Sc. has a limited enrollment to twenty students
out of hundreds of yearly applications
2008 – 2011
Doctoral candidate representative in the Department Council at the Department
of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Italy.
Notices
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefano-Noventa
Quantitative Psychology Lab (QP-Lab)
https://dpg.unipd.it/en/qplab
Orari di ricevimento
Mer13:3015:30Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale - Via Venezia 8 - Sesto Piano - Stanza 06 022
Publications
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
1. Noventa, S., Heller, J., Ye, S., Kelava, A. (2025). Toward a unified perspective on assessment models, part II: dichotomous latent variables. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 125, 102926.
2. Noventa, S., Heller, J., Kelava, A. (2024). Toward a unified perspective on assessment models, part I: Foundations of a framework. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 122, 102872.
3. Noventa, S., Ye, S., Kelava, A., Spoto, A. (2024). On the Identifiability of 3- and 4-Parameter Item Response Theory Models from the perspective of Knowledge Space Theory. Psychometrika, 89, 486-516.
4. Ye, S., Kelava, A., Noventa, S. (2023) Parameter estimation of KST-IRT models under local dependence. Psych, 5(3), 908-927.
5. Sartori, R., Tommasi, F., Ceschi, A., Noventa, S., Zene, M. (2023). Learning in the workplace: Evidence on the role of behavioural job crafting on fostering self-perceived employability. European Journal of Training and Development. DOI: 10.1108/EJTD-11-2022-0119
6. Ceschi, A., Sartori, R., Tommasi, F., Noventa, S., Morandini, S., Zagarese, V. (2022). A combined resources-strength intervention: Empirical evidence from two streams of the positive psychology approach. International Journal of Training and Development, ISSN: 1360-3736, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12257
7. Noventa, S., Heller, J., Stefanutti, L. (2021). Some considerations on the factorization of state probabilities in knowledge structures. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 102, ISSN: 0022-2496, doi: 10.1016/j.jmp.2021.102542
8. Vicovaro, M., Noventa, S., Ghiani, A., Mena, F., Battaglini, L. (2021). Evidence of Weight-Based Representations of Gravitational Motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, vol. 47, p. 1445-1471, ISSN: 0096-1523, doi: 10.1037/xhp0000956
9. Bellini, D., Cubico, S., Favretto, G., Noventa, S. A., Ardolino, P., Gianesini, G., Ciabuschi, F., Leitao, J., Jain, A. K. (2021). A metamodel for competence assessment: Co. SMO© competences software management for organizations. European Journal of Training and Development, 45(6/7), 603-616.
10. Heck, D. W., Noventa, S. (2020). Representing probabilistic models of knowledge space theory by multinomial processing tree models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 96, 102329.
11. Bottesi, G., Noventa, S., Freeston, M.H., Ghisi, M. (2019). Seeking certainty about intolerance of uncertainty: Addressing old and new issues through the intolerance of uncertainty scale revised. PLOS ONE, vol. 14, e0211929, ISSN: 1932-6203, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211929
12. Noventa, S., Spoto, A., Heller, J., Kelava, A. (2019). On a Generalization of Local Independence in Item Response Theory Based on Knowledge Space Theory. Psychometrika, 84, p. 395-421, ISSN: 0033-3123, doi: 10.1007/s11336-018-9645-6
13. Vicovaro, M., Noventa, S., Battaglini, L. (2019). Intuitive physics of gravitational motion as shown by perceptual judgment and prediction-motion tasks. Acta Psychologica, 194, p. 51-62, ISSN: 0001-6918, doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.02.001
14. Battaglini, L., Noventa, S., Casco, C. (2017). Anodal and cathodal electrical stimulation over V5 improves motion perception by signal enhancement and noise reduction. Brain Stimulation, 10(4), 773-779.
15. Scalco, A., Noventa, S., Sartori, R., Ceschi, A. (2017). Predicting Organic Food Consumption: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Model based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. Appetite, 112, 235-248.
Research Area
My main interests lie in Psychometrics and Mathematical Psychology. In particular, I am working on the unification of different theories for assessment (Item Response Theory, Knowledge Structure Theory, Cognitive Diagnostic modelling) through the formal study of their foundational aspects. More generally, I am interested in the problem of measurement in psychology and in the formal foundations of mathematical psychology models in the context of mathematical logic. I am also interested in latent variable models and in their applications to Education, Entrepreneurship, Social and Organizational Psychology. Fainlly, I am also interested in Psychophysics and Naive Physics.
