STEERING COMMITTEE ON THE USE OF SCHOOL-LEVEL

ASSESSMENT DATA

Statement of Task

A small steering committee of experts will plan a workshop on the appropriate uses of the school-level student assessment database. The committee will develop an understanding of the database and identify a set of guiding questions for the workshop. The committee will identify experts representing different perspectives to write commissioned papers that address the guiding questions. Finally, the steering committee will plan and moderate a workshop, where the commissioned-paper writers will present and discuss their ideas.

The product will be the set of commissioned papers, which may include recommendations from individual paper authors. A transcript of the workshop will also be made available, if requested from the sponsor. There will be no proceedings, workshop summary, or committee consensus report.

The steering panel is composed of members with expertise in three areas: measurement, testing, and statistics; education research and economics; and policy implementation (practitioners at district and state levels).

June 27-28, 2005: Planning Meeting Agenda

Click here to view the December 8-9, 2005: Symposium Agenda. The commissioned papers are linked under topics/speaker on the agenda

To view each day’s transcript click on the date: December 8, 2005 and December 9, 2005

Committee Members

Dr. Stephen Dunbar (Chair), Professor of Educational Measurement and Statistics, University of Iowa

Dr. W. Steven Barnett, Associate Professor of Economics and Policy and Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, Rutgers University

Dr. Geno Flores, Deputy Superintendent, San Diego City Schools

Dr. Stephen Henry, General Director of Research, Evaluation and Assessment, Topeka Public Schools, Topeka, Kansas

Dr. Samuel Lucas, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Wendy Yen, Senior Research Director of the Center for K-12 Research, Educational Testing Service

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