CAESL 2008 Featured Speakers
We are excited to announce that speakers at this year’s conference will include:
LORRIE A. SHEPARD
Dean of the School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lorrie Shepard is professor of education and chair of the Research and Evaluation Methodology program area. Dr. Shepard is currently dean of the School of Education. Her research focuses on psychometrics and the use and misuse of tests in educational settings. Technical topics include validity theory, standard setting, and statistical models for detecting test bias. Her studies evaluating test use include identification of learning disabilities, readiness screening for kindergarten, grade retention, teacher testing, effects of high-stakes testing, and classroom assessment. At the graduate level, Dr. Shepard teaches courses in statistics, research methods, and testing and assessment policy. In the teacher education program, she teaches assessment in collaboration with colleagues in content methods courses.
Read more about Lorrie Shepard at the University of Colorado, Boulder website.
MARK WILSON
Professor of Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation; Cognition and Development,
University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education
Mark Wilson's interests focus on measurement and applied statistics. His work spans a range of issues in measurement and assessment from the development of new statistical models for analyzing measurement data, to the development of new assessments in subject matter areas such as science education, patient-reported outcomes and child development, to policy issues in the use of assessment data in accountability systems. He currently chairs a National Research Council committee on assessment of science achievement. He is founding editor of the new journal Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives.
Read more about Mark Wilson at the University of California, Berkeley website.
SHARON NELSON-BARBER
Director of Culture and Language in Education Research, WestEd
Since 1998, Sharon Nelson-Barber has directed WestEd’s Center for the Study of Culture and Language in Education (CLE), which works with schools and communities to improve services to students from diverse linguistic, cultural, and racial backgrounds. CLE’s work spans the lower 48 states, Alaska, the Northern Pacific islands of Micronesia, and many areas of Polynesia. Center research focuses on understanding how the sociocultural contexts in which students live influence the ways in which they make sense of schooling in mathematics and science. It also focuses on understanding how aspects of cultural knowledge can become visible within the formats of large-scale testing in order to ensure assessment is equitable for all students.
Read more about Sharon Nelson-Barber at WestEd's website.
ECKHARD KLIEME
Director of the German Institute for International Educational Research
Professor of Educational Sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt Main
Eckhard Klieme received academic diploma in mathematics and psychology at the University of Bonn. His doctoral dissertation dealt with cognitive analysis and assessment of mathematical problem solving. At the Institute for Test Development and Talent Research of the German Scholarship Foundation, Bonn (1982-1997), he worked on the German Medical School Admission Test and headed a larger reform initiative for vocational training and assessment in Luxembourg. At the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin (1998-2001), he became involved in the TIMSS and PISA studies. Klieme is member of various national as well as international expert groups and consortia. He was influential in setting up the assessment of cross-curricular problem solving in PISA (2000/2003), and he was PI in a national large scale study on language competencies (2001-2006). Since 2007, Klieme coordinates the Priority Research Program on Modelling of Competencies, sponsored by the German Research Foundation. His current research interests focus on educational effectiveness and classroom assessment.
