2013 MARC Conference
The Thirteenth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference:
The Next Generation of Testing: Common Core Standards, Smarter-Balanced, PARCC, and the Nationwide Testing Movement
- Jointly supported by the Maryland State Department of Education and the Maryland Assessment Research Center.
- Each topic will be given a two-hour block of time, except the last one on validity which will have 3 hours allocated, including a 50-minute presentation by each speaker followed by 10 minutes of Q and A.
Presentation Schedule
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| 7:00-8:15 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:15-8:30 | Robert W. Lissitz | Welcome and Comments |
| I. Introduction, overview, intention of this effort, history, and where we are now | ||
| 8:30-9:30 | Lauress Wise (HumRRO) |
How We Got To Where We Are: Evolving Policy Demands for the Next Generation Assessments |
| 9:30-10:30 | Marty McCall (Smarter Balanced) |
The Next Generation of Testing:Common Core Standards, Smarter-Balanced, PARCC, and the Nationwide Testing Movement |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | |
| II. Test Design, effects of the common core standards, item creation, and state transition to new tests | ||
| 10:45-11:45 | Bonnie Hain (Baltimore County) & Carrie Piper (NWEA) | PARCC as a Case Study in Understanding the Design of Large-Scale Assessment in the Era of CCSS |
| 11:45-12:45 | Steve Ferrara, Paul Nichols, & Emily Lai (Pearson) |
Design and Development for Next Generation Tests: Principled Design for Efficacy (PDE) |
| 12:45-1:30 | Lunch | |
| III. Scoring, reporting, informing instruction, making a difference to students and teachers, VAM | ||
| 1:30-2:30 | Mark Shermis (University of Akron) |
The Role of Machine Scoring in the Summative and Formative Assessment |
| 2:30-3:30 | Edward W. Wolfe & Tian Song (Pearson) |
Application of Several Latent Trait Models to the Detection of Rater Effects |
| 3:30-3:45 | Break | |
| IV. Standard Setting in CAT environment, involving performance items, issues across states with differing standards, equating issues | ||
| 3:45-4:45 | Luz Bay (College Board) |
State of the Art Standard Setting for State of the Art Assessments |
| 4:45-5:45 | Gary Skaggs (Virginia Tech) |
Standard Setting on Planet NextGen |
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| 7:30-8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| V. Connecting to the world of work and to higher education | ||
| 8:30-9:30 | Wayne Camara (ACT) |
College and Career Readiness:Criterion-Related Outcomes |
| 9:30-10:30 | David Conley (University of Oregon) |
Multiple Data Sources and Profiles for Connecting to the World of Work and to Higher Education |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | |
| VI. Validity and how we know whether this succeeded | ||
| 10:45-11:45 | Steve Sireci (University of Massachusetts) |
A Theory of Action for Test Validation |
| 11:45-12:30 | Lunch | |
| 12:30-1:30 | Joe Willhoft (Smarter-Balanced Consortium) |
Outline of Smarter Balanced Validity Agenda |
| 1:30-2:30 | Enis Dogan, (Achieve) Jeff Hauger (NJ Department of Education), & Casey Maliszewski |
Empirical and Procedural Validity Evidence in Development and Implementation of PARCC Assessments |
| 2:30-3:00 | Closing Remarks | |