2008 MARC Conference

Ninth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference :

THE CONCEPT OF VALIDITY: REVISIONS, NEW DIRECTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education and

Maryland Assessment Research Center for Education Success

Location:

Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland , College Park , MD 20742

Time:
October 9 th and 10 th , 2008 (Thursday and Friday)
Registration and breakfast begins at 7:00 a.m. both days.
Presentations will start at 8:30 a.m. on both Thursday and Friday.
The program will end at 5:30 and include lunch on Thursday, and end at 1:00 on Friday.
Speakers and Presentations:


• Thursday, October 9 ,2008
7:00 ~ 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 ~ 8:45	Welcome and Comments	Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland)
8:45 ~ 9:45	Packing and Unpacking Sources of Validity Evidence: History Repeats Itself Again	Stephen Sireci (University of Massachusetts)
9:45 ~10:45	The Concept of Validity in the Context of NCLB	Bob Linn (University of Colorado)
10:45 ~ 11:00	Break
11:00~12:00	Invalidity in Validity	Joel Michell (University of Sydney in Australia)
12:00~ 1:00	Lunch
1:00 ~ 2:00	The End of Construct Validity	Denny Borsboom (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2:00 ~ 3:00	Context, Construct, and Interpretation	Micheline Chalhoub-Deville(University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
3:00 ~ 3:15	Break
3:15 ~ 4:15	Necessary Validity Evidence for Statewide Assessments	William D. Schafer ( University of Maryland )
4:15 ~ 5:15	Content-based Interpretations of Test Scores	Michael Kane ( National Conference of Bar Examiners )
6:00 ~	Dinner for speakers at Adele's (in the Student Union)
• Friday, October 10 ,2008
7:00 ~ 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 ~ 9 : 30	Construct Validity as Universal System for Educational and Psychological Tests	Susan Embretson (Georgia Institute of Technology)
9 : 30 ~ 10:30	Validity and Narrative Robustness	Robert J. Mislevy (University of Maryland)
10 : 30 ~10:45	Break
10:45 ~ 11: 45	Foundational and Methodological Issues in Validity for Complex Measurement Systems	Bruno Zumbo (University of British Columbia)
11:45~12:45	The Long and Winding Road: Researching the Validity of the SAT	Wayne Camara (College Board)
12:45 ~ 1:00	Closing Comments	Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland)

Maryland Assessment Research Center (MARC)

2008 MARC Conference