Best Practices in State Assessment Workshop 1 Presentations

Session I. Examining the Status Quo: What are the benefits and limitations of the current approaches to assessment in this country?

Peg Goertz, University of Pennsylvania Scott Marion, National Center for Improvement of Educational Assessment

Session II. Changing the Status Quo

Joe Krajcik and Shawn Stevens, University of Michigan Mark Wilson, University of California, Berkeley Stephen Lazer, Educational Testing Service

Session III. What is the Status of Innovative Assessment?

Brian Stecher and Laura Hamilton, RAND Steve Ferrara, MSPAP Brian Gong, KIRIS Dirk Mattson, Minnesota

Session IV. Exploring the Opportunities

Laurie Wise, HumRRO Ron Hambleton, University of Massachusetts Amherst Rebecca Zwick, ETS and the University of California, Santa Barbara

Session V. Setting Research Priorities

Lorrie Shepard, University of Colorado