CAESL 2008: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING IN SCIENCE

Bob Goeman, Neal Grandgenett, and Paul Clark
University of Nebraska at Omaha
How do you grow future teachers’ assessment skills?
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Jake Burgoon
Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Identifying teachers’ science misconceptions for the improvement of professional development programs
Power Point File       Handout (PDF)

Joan Herman (CRESST/UCLA), Kathy DiRanna (K-12 Alliance/WestEd), & Ellen Osmundson (CRESST)
Understanding teachers' formative assessment practices: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Power Point File
ESRs to Criteria (WORD)       Preliminary ESRs (WORD)       RAIM Example (WORD)
Table 7.5 (WORD)       Table 10.5 (WORD)

Kathleen Meckel (Effie Kokrine Charter School, Alaska) and Tom Thomas (Star School, Arizona)
Contextualizing assessment: Examples from a Diné school in Arizona and a multicultural classroom in Alaska

Jim Bauman & David Gabel
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington D.C.
Science testing using low language, interactive, computerized test items
Power Point (PDF)

David Silver (CRESST/UCLA), Cyndy Greenleaf (WestEd), and Willard Brown (Oakland USD)
The Integrated Learning Assessment (ILA): A tool for assessing and improving students’ literacy and content understanding in science
Power Point File

Yalcin Yalaki & Zeki Bayram
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Formative assessment in a challenging classroom context
Power Point File       Paper (WORD)

Arthur Camins (Gheens Institute for Innovation in Education), and
Dr. Kathy Long (Lawrence Hall of Science/UC Berkeley)
The power of embedded assessment
Power Point File       Paper (WORD)

Drue Gawel, Rachel Phillips, Nancy Vye, Megan Brown & Eric Meyers (University of Washington), and
Vanessa Svihla (University of Texas-Austin)
New approaches to 21st century schooling: Preparation for future learning assessments and their instructional implications
Power Point (PDF)

Michael Timms & Barbara Buckley (WestEd) and Carlos Ayala (Sonoma State University)
Simulations in science assessment
Power Point (PDF)