Maryland Assessment Research Center (MARC)

2019 MARC Conference

The Nineteenth Annual MARC Conference

Enhancing Effective Instruction and Learning Using Assessment Data

Theory and Practice (Nov. 7th-8th, 2019)

Located at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

(Live streaming video will be available online after the conference for repeated viewing)

Jointly supported by the Maryland State Department of Education and the Maryland Assessment Research Center.
This conference has invited speakers to present new and emerging models and methods for psychometric analysis and applications.

Presentation Schedule


November 7th (Thursday)
Morning Session I
7:30-8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30-8:45	Welcome and Comments	Hong Jiao (University of Maryland)
8:45-9:30	Technology enhanced formative assessment increases the efficacy of the homework review process Presentation Slides	Kim Kelly & Neil Heffernan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
9:30-10:15	Improving assessment and instruction with process data and learning analytics Presentation Slides	Mingyu Feng (WestEd)
Break
Morning Session II
10:30-11:15	Using Assessment Data to Generate Individualized Learning Materials to Students: What We Learned from Developing the I-DAP Presentation Slides	Alex Brodersen &Ying Cheng (University of Notre Dame)
11:15-12:00	Evidence-based method for iterative online course engineering with students’ performance profile Presentation Slides	Noboru Matsuda & Machi Shimmei (North Carolina State University)
12:00-1:00	Lunch	Grand Ballroom Lounge


November 7th (Thursday)
Afternoon Session I
1:00-1:45	A clinical-holistic approach to educational assessment for learning: Using multiple data sources and multiple methods. Presentation Slides	Joanna Gorin (Educational Testing Service)
1:45-2:30	Learning Progressions-based Assessments to Guide Classroom Practices in Mathematics: Sources and Considerations for Validity Evidence Presentation Slides	Leanne Ketterlin Geller (Southern Methodist University)
Break
Afternoon Session II
2:45-3:30	Using Diagnostic Assessment Data to Advance Student Success: Results from the Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement of College Skills (DAACS) Project Presentation Slides	Jason Bryer (Excelsior College) & Heidi Andrade (University of Albany)
3:30-4:15	Designing Score Reports to Maximize Validity and Instructional Usefulness Presentation Slides	Karen Barton & Audra Kosh (Edmentum )
4:15-5:00	The Effects of a Formative Assessment Intervention on Student Understanding of Basic Mathematical Principles Presentation Slides	Julia Phelan (University of California, Los Angeles)


November 8th (Friday)
Morning Session I
7:30-8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:15	Use of Learning Maps as an Organizing Structure for Formative Assessment Presentation Slides	Neal Kingston (The University of Kansas )
9:15-10:00	A Balanced Approach to Using Assessment Data to Enhance Instruction Presentation Slides	Charlie DePascale (Center for Assessment, NCIEA)
Break
Morning Session II
10:15-11:00	Measuring Student Engagement as an Indicator of Student Agency and Voice within the Classroom Environment Presentation Slides	Stephen Murphy & Vicki Denmark (Cognia)
11:00-11:45	Not All that Counts is Safe for Counting: Empirical Barriers to Collecting Learning Data for Assessment Purposes Presentation Slides	Jacqueline P. Leighton (University of Alberta)
11:45-12:00	Closing Comments	Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland)

Slides will be available at the conference	Leveraging ideas from adaptive testing to enhance adaptive learning: identifying features that work Presentation Slides Note: This paper is not to be presented at the conference but will be included in the book.	Meirav Arieli Attali & Alina von Davier ( ACTNext)