Eighth Annual Maryland
Assessment Conference:
Alternate Assessment
Sponsored by the Maryland State
Department of Education and
Maryland Assessment Research
Center for Education Success
In the Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
October 11 and 12, 2007 (Thursday and Friday)
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
Alternate assessments are designed to seek evidence of academic achievement and instructional program success for students with cognitive disabilities that are so severe that their achievement cannot be assessed accurately using measures designed for the broad student community. While there is little disagreement about the need for alternate assessments, there are significant differences among existing development efforts. The 2007 Maryland conference will bring together prominent national experts to explore (1) the nature of the construct(s) that alternate assessments are designed to measure, (2) the unique assessment challenges that alternate assessments pose, (3) a range of approaches to these challenges that have been or are likely to succeed, and (4) documenting the quality of alternate assessments.
Organizer: William D. Schafer Moderator: Robert W. Lissitz
Speakers include: Peter Behuniak (University of Connecticut), Diane M. Browder (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Diana Carrizales (Oregon Department of Education), H. Gary Cook (Wisconsin Center for Educational Research), Charles A. DePascale (National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment), Stephen N. Elliott (Vanderbilt University), Steve Ferrara (American Institutes for Research), Melissa Fincher (Georgia Department of Education), Claudia Flowers (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Sharon Hall (Maryland State Department of Education), Jacqueline F. Kearns (University of Kentucky), Nancy Latini (Oregon Department of Education), Scott F. Marion (National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment), Lorin Mueller (American Institutes for Research), Rachel Quenemoen (University of Minnesota), Susan L. Rigney (U.S. Department of Education), William D. Schafer (University of Maryland), Suzanne Swaffield (South Carolina Department of Education), Gerald Tindal (University of Oregon), Daniel J. Wiener (Massachusetts Department of Education)
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The Maryland Assessment
Research Center for Education Success (MARCES) is a Center in the Department of
Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, College of Education and is directed
by Professor Robert W. Lissitz.