National Research Council National Science Resources Center Math/Science Partnerships Workshop: Assessment of Student Learning The Keck Center, 500 Fifth St. NW, Room 100 Washington, DC February 1-3, 2004 TENTATIVE AGENDA
February 1 (Sunday)
1:00 pm	Opening Remarks
	Jay Labov, National Research Council (NRC)
	Sally Goetz Shuler, National Science Resources Center
	Martin Orland, NRC Center for Education
	Melvin D. George, Chair, NRC Steering Committee
	National Science Foundation Representative
	Overview of Workshop: Melvin George, President Emeritus, University of Missouri and NRC Chair, Mathematics and Science Partnerships Committee
	Assessment as a Primary Means for Promoting Student Learning Lorrie Shepard, Dean of the School of Education and Chair of the Research and Evaluation Methodology Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
2:30 pm	What Assessment Issues are MSPs currently confronting? Panel: Three MSP teams discuss assessment decisions
3:30 pm	An Assessment Exercise Andrew Porter, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy and, Director of the Learning Sciences Institute, Vanderbilt University
4: 45 pm	Break
	Debriefing of Assessment Exercise and Participant Discussion Andy Porter, Lorrie Shepard, MSP team panel
5:45 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Dinner
7:15 pm	Meeting: Facilitators, Presenters, NRC and NSRC Staff
February 2 (Monday)
8:00 am	Breakfast
8:30 am	Connecting Cognition and Assessment James Pellegrino, Co-Director, Center for the Study of Learning, Instruction, & Teacher Development, University of Illinois, Chicago
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Equity in Assessment William Trent, Professor of Education Policy Studies and Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
11:15 am	Classroom Assessment of Learning: What Does It Mean for MSPs? Lorrie Shepard, Dean of the School of Education and Chair of the Research and Evaluation Methodology Program, University of Colorado, Boulder (talk and brief exercise)
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:00-2:00	Implications for MSPs of Large-Scale Assessments Marge Petit, Senior Associate, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (talk and brief exercise)
2:15 pm	Break-outs:
		C-TOOLS: Concept-map Tools for Online Learning in Science Diane Ebert-May, Professor, Plant Biology, Michigan State University
		Ongoing Classroom Assessment of Mathematics: Assessing for Understanding Marge Petit
		Information Technology: Implications for Assessment of Learning Ellen Mandinach, Associate Director for Research, EDC Center for Children & Technology
		Implications of Formative Assessment for Curriculum Development and Professional Development Lorrie Shepard
		Formative Assessment: Small Strategies that Work in a Big Way Mary Colvard
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	MSP Teams: Team Networking andTime with Facilitators
5:15 pm	Adjourn and Dinner (on your own)
5:30	Feedback Panel –11th Floor Collaboration Room
February 3 (Tuesday)
8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am	Concept-mapping: A Research Tool Diane Ebert-May, Professor of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
10:30 am	Planning for Change in Assessment Mark Kaufman, Co-Director of the Center for Education Partnerships, TERC
11:45 am	Group Discussion and Possible Next Steps
12:30 pm	Box Lunch and Adjourn