Center for the Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning

Conference Agenda Dolce Hayes Mansion, San Jose, CA Thursday May 17 � Friday May 18, 2007
Thursday May 17, 2007
Welcoming Address by Craig Strang, Lawrence Hall of Science Opening Remarks Opening Keynote Address: Assessment as an Integral Part of Curriculum and Instruction in San Diego Unified School District by Geno Flores, Deputy Superintendent, San Diego City Schools PowerPoint Breakout Sessions I: Balancing Content and Inquiry in Classroom Assessment by Amelia Wenk Gotwals (Michigan State University) PowerPoint Can we trust teacher judgements? A validity study of a standards-based classroom assessment of English proficiency by Lorena Llosa (New York University) Handout (pdf) Tools to Measure Student Progress by Diana Bernbaum, Rachael Tan, and Brent Duckor (UC Berkeley) PowerPoint
Evening event at the Tech Museum of Innovation
Friday May 18, 2007
Keynote Address: Implementing Quality Assessments At Scale by Michael C. Lach, Director of Mathematics and Science, Chicago City Schools PowerPoint Breakout Sessions II: Assessing Middle School Students' Content Knowledge and Scientific Reasoning Through Written Explanations by Joe Krajcik (University of Michigan) Slides (pdf) Handout Benchmarks Video Explanation Explanation Examples Formative Assessment in Science through Technology by Kathy Long (Lawrence Hall of Science) and Arthur Camins (Hudson Public Schools, Hudson, MA) PowerPoint Handout Student Work Scoring Approaches - Generic? Item Specific? Guided? by Patty Kreikemeier (Lawrence Hall of Science) PowerPoint Breakout Sessions III: Developing a Learning Progression for the Nature of Matter by Shawn Stevens and Namsoo Shin (University of Michigan) PowerPoint Conceptually Driven Assessments by Lynn Barakos (Lawrence Hall of Science), Sam Nagashima, and Terry Vendlinski (UCLA) PowerPoint (Barakos) PowerPoint (Nagashima and Vendlinski) Assessment in eLearning Environments by Mike Timms (WestEd), Doug Weinacht (MW Productions), and Nargas Oskui (University of Oregon) PowerPoint PowerPoint (Timms) PowerPoint (Oskui) Image Slideshow (Oskui) Closing Keynote Address: What synergies might there be across the areas of research and development? What needs to be done to make quality assessment in real classrooms a reality? by Joe Krajcik (University of Michigan) PowerPoint

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Thursday May 17, 2007

Friday May 18, 2007