The National Academies Board on Testing and Assessment FIRST MEETING OF THE ROUNDTABLE ON EDUCATION SYSTEMS AND ACCOUNTABILITY Agenda February 17, 2009 Washington, DC
9:00 am	Welcome and Introductions
	Michael Feuer, Executive Director, DBASSE
	Stuart Elliott, Director, BOTA
	Susan Fuhrman and Tom Luce, Co-Chairs
9:15	Goals for the Roundtable
	Kerri Briggs, Former Assistant Secretary of Education
	Joe Conaty, Acting Assistant Secretary of Education
	Susan Fuhrman and Tom Luce
10:30	Break
Panel Discussion: College, Career, and Workforce Readiness 10:45 am – 4:00 pm
10:45	Panel I: Conceptual Issues in Assessing College, Career, and Workforce Readiness
	Moderator: Laurie Wise
	• How should college/career/workforce readiness be defined?
	• How should college/career/workforce readiness be measured?
	• How do we know that the definitions are correct and the measures are valid?
	The discussion will focus on the process and procedures that should be used for developing the definition and the measures of readiness and for verifying that they are correct/valid. Each panelist will talk for about 20 minutes, leaving about 20 minutes for discussion.
	Speakers
	John Campbell, University of Minnesota
	David Conley, Educational Policy Improvement Center
11:45	Working Lunch
12:45 pm	Panel II: Implementation Examples
	Moderator: Kevin Lang
	For each program, the speaker should address:
	• How have you approached defining and measuring college/career/workforce readiness?
	• What evidence do you have that your definition is correct and that your measures are valid?
	Each speaker will make a 15- to 20-minute presentation about the process that they have used to define readiness, identify the skills, and develop measures of the skills. Program should focus on the processes they have used, not on lists of specific skills that they have identified. Each program should also talk about any validity studies they have conducted to verify that they have identified the right skills and measured them in a valid way. The purpose is not to evaluate any particular program’s progress in this area but to consider the general state of the field. The presentations will take about 90 minutes, leaving 30 minutes for discussion
	Speakers
	Mike Cohen, Achieve (American Diploma Project)
	Steve Sellman, HumRRO (ASVAB)
	Cyndie Schmeiser, ACT Inc. (ACT Assessment, Work Keys)
	Andrew Wiley, College Board (SAT)
	Susan Loomis, National Assessment Governing Board (NAEP)
2:30	Break
2:45	Panel III: Reactions from Users of Assessments of Readiness
	Moderator: James Wendorf
	• What instruments and measures do you use in your recruitment activities?
	• Why do you use these instruments? How useful are they?
	• How well do they predict performance?
	• What concerns do you have about them?
	• What improvements could be made?
	Speakers
	Jane Arabian, Department of Defense
	William Sedlacek, University of Maryland
3:30	Panel IV: Summary and Synthesis
	Moderator: David Francis
	• What is the state of the field of assessing college, career, and workforce readiness?
	• What is known? What research questions remain?
	• What are the implications for accountability?
	Speakers
	Jane Hannaway
	Lynn Olson
Adjourn panel discussion
4:00	Planning for the Next Meeting
	Discussion Leaders: Susan Fuhrman and Tom Luce
	Identification of topics to discuss, speakers, papers to commission
4:45	Closing Remarks
	Kerri Briggs, Former Assistant Secretary of Education
	Joe Conaty, Acting Assistant Secretary of Education
	Susan Fuhrman and Tom Luce
5:00	Adjourn