CAESL 2008: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING IN SCIENCE

Opening keynote address – Dr. Lorrie Shepard
Dean and Professor at the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Using Formative Assessment to Scaffold Teacher and Student Learning
PowerPoint       Reflection Questions

Welcome address by Steve Schneider, WestEd (Principal Investigator, CAESL)

Opening Speaker – Dr. Sharon Nelson-Barber
Director of Culture and Language in Education Research and Director of the Center for the Study of Culture and Language in Education at WestEd
Contextualizing Assessment: Strengthening student performance in diverse classrooms
Power Point

Breakout Sessions I

Breakout Sessions II

Poster Session.

An evening dinner event was held at San Francisco's most popular science museum,
the Exploratorium, located at the Palace of Fine Arts.

Opening Speaker – Dr. Eckhard Klieme
Director of the German Institute for International Educational Research and Professor of Educational Sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt Main
Formative assessment within the classroom: Instructional practices and instructionally sensitive tests
Power Point (PDF)

Breakout sessions

Closing keynote – Dr. Mark Wilson
Director, Berkeley Evaluation & Assessment Research (BEAR) Center, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education
On the relationship between large-scale assessment and classroom assessments
Power Point