The National Academies, Board on Testing and Assessment and The National Academy of Education BEST PRACTICES FOR STATE ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS Workshop 2 Agenda April 6-7, 2010 Washington, DC
TUESDAY, APRIL 6
8:45 am	Workshop Registration Desk Open
9:15 am	Opening Remarks
VIDEO	Stuart Elliott, Director, Board on Testing and Assessment
	Judith Rizzo, Executive Director and CEO, James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy
9:30 am	Goals for the Workshop
	Diana Pullin, Boston College, Workshop Steering Committee Chair
Session I. Developing Coherent Systems, Implementing Innovative Assessments
	Issues to Address:
	What does it mean to have a coherent system of assessments, with vertical, horizontal, and developmental coherence? Why is a coherent system important? What advantages does it offer?
	What are the different purposes of assessment and what assessment strategies best suit each purpose? How can the information provided by different forms of assessment be used to guide instruction, improve student learning, and evaluate effectiveness of teachers and schools for accountability purposes?
	What is involved in moving to a coherent system of assessment that incorporates multiple assessment types? What examples of such systems exist (nationally and internationally)?
	How can assessment of higher level thinking skills and deeper understandings be incorporated into a coherent system of assessments? What examples are currently being tried or considered?
9:45	Coherent System of Assessments Moderators: Diana Pullin & Rebecca Maynard
VIDEO
	Presenter: Joan Herman, CRESST, Workshop Steering Committee	Presentation
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45	Moderated Discussion: Policy Perspective
VIDEO
	Panelists:
	Roy Romer, College Board
	Ed Roeber, Michigan State University	Presentation
11:30	Audience discussion
12:00-1:00	Working Lunch
1:00	Reconvene to continue Session I
VIDEO	Moderated Discussion: Research and Practice Moderators: Diana Pullin & Dirk Mattson
	Panelists:
	Linda Darling Hammond, Stanford	Presentation
	Tony Alpert, Oregon Department of Education	Presentation
	Marc Tucker, National Center for Education and the Economy	Presentation
2:00	Audience Discussion
2:30-2:45	Break
Session II. Issues to Consider with Innovative Assessments
	Issues to Address
	Innovative assessments pose challenges with respect to item development, administration, scoring, equating, and other technical issues. What are these challenges and how can they be addressed? How can we ensure that scores obtained from innovative assessments are reliable and valid?
	What issues need to be considered in using innovative assessment approaches with special populations?
	How can we ensure that these students have the opportunity to learn the material/ skills needed for assessments that measure deeper understandings and higher order thinking skills?
2:45	Ensuring that Innovative Assessments Provide Reliable and Valid Information
VIDEO	Moderators: Scott Marion & Mark Wilson
	Presenter: Rebecca Zwick, UC Santa Barbara and ETS	Presentation
3:15	Moderated Discussion: Special Populations Perspectives
VIDEO
	Panelists:
	Robert Linquanti, WestEd Martha Thurlow, National Center on Education Outcomes	Presentation Presentation
4:00	Moderated Discussion: Policy and Practice Perspectives
	Panelists: Joe Wilhoft, Washington Department of Education Deborah Sigman, California Department of Education
4:45	Audience Discussion
5:00	Closing Remarks for Day 1
VIDEO	Gene Wilhoit, Council of Chief State School Officers Diana Pullin
5:15	Adjourn Day 1 Reception
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7
Session III. Strategies for Using Results from a Coherent System to Inform Instructional Decision Making
	Issues to Address
	How can assessments best be used to guide instruction?
	What changes can be made to content standards, assessment tasks, and reports of assessment results to make them more useful for instruction? What role can innovative assessment approaches play in guiding instruction?
	What structures and supports need to be in place? What training do teachers need in order to effectively use assessment information?
8:30 VIDEO	Strategies for Using Assessment to Guide Instruction Moderators: Joan Herman & Mark Wilson
	Presenter: Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford		Presentation
9:15	Moderated Discussion: Researcher Perspective
VIDEO
	Presenter:
	Margaret Heritage, CRESST		Presentation
	Karin Hess, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment		Presentation
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30	Moderated Discussion: Policy maker, Practitioner Perspectives
VIDEO	Panelists: Teri Siskind, South Carolina Department of Education
	Peg Cagle, LA Unified School District, California Teachers Advisory Council		Presentation
11:15	Audience Discussion
11:45-12:45	Working Lunch
Session IV. The Role of Technology
	Issues to Address
VIDEO	What role can technology play in the implementation of innovative assessment strategies?
	What role can technology play in the scoring and reporting of innovative assessments?
	What role can technology play in making assessments and assessment results more useful for instruction?
12:45	Technology and Innovative Assessment
VIDEO	Moderators: Rebecca Maynard & Dirk Mattson
	Presenter: Randy Bennett, ETS	Presentation
1:15	Policy maker, Practitioner Perspective
VIDEO	Panelists: Wendy Pickett, Delaware Department of Education Tony Alpert, Oregon Department of Education
2:15-2:30	Break
Session V. Synthesis and Extension of Ideas
2:30	Aggregating Information from Different Sources
VIDEO	Issues to Address
	How can multiple types of assessment evidence be used and aggregated to inform summative judgments?
	How can this information be aggregated and used to evaluate students, teachers, and schools?
	Moderators: Diana Pullin & Scott Marion
	Presenter: Laurie Wise, HumRRO	Presentation
3:15	Moderated Discussion with full steering committee
4:00	Closing Remarks
	Diana Pullin
4:15	Adjourn Workshop