Maryland Assessment Research Center (MARC)

2010 MARC Conference

Tenth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference:

COMPUTERS AND THEIR IMPACT ON STATE ASSESSMENT: RECENT HISTORY AND PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE

Organized by Robert W. Lissitz and Hong Jiao

Time and Location

This conference will be held October 18th and 19th, 2010 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Riggs Alumni Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

Registration and breakfast will begin at 7:00 AM and presentations will start at 8:30 AM on both days. The program will end at 5:30 and include lunch on Monday, and end at 1:00 on Tuesday.

Conference Schedule

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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Time Title Presenter(s)
7:00 - 8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 Welcome and Comments Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland)
8:45 - 9:45 History, current practice, and predictions for the future of computer based assessment in K-12 education John Poggio (University of Kansas)
9:45 - 10:45 How a state might benefit from computer-based assessment and how to solve problems with its implementation from the viewpoint of the State Joe Martineau and Vincent Dean (Michigan)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 What does a state need to do to prepare for and to transition to computer based assessments from the viewpoint of a Contractor Denny Way and Robert K. Kirkpatrick (Pearson)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Creating innovative items and test forms (e.g., simulation, gaming) Kathleen Scalise (University of Oregon)
2:00 - 3:00 The science and conceptual basis for scoring innovative and performance items David Williamson (ETS)
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15 Modeling for feedback and diagnostic purposes (include classification decisions) Hua-Hua Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
4:15 - 5:15 Making it happen (technical issues such as missing data, ID assignment, banking issues including calibration, security) Ric Luecht (University of North Carolina - Greensboro)

 

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Time Title Presenter(s)
7:00 - 8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 New psychometric models and their potential utility (particularly non-IRT models) made possible by computer based assessment Terry Ackerman (University of North Carolina - Greensboro)
9:30 - 10:30 Turning the page: How adaptive testing and vertical scales can be used to enhance state testing programs Gage Kingsbury, Ron Houser, and Steve Wise (Northwest Evaluation Association)
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 What can we learn from the application of computer based assessment to the military Daniel Segall and Kathy Moreno (Defense Manpower Data Center)
11:45 - 12:45 What can we learn from the application of computer based assessment to the industry John Behrens and Kristen DiCerbo (Cisco Systems)
12:45 - 1:00 Closing Comments Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland)