2014 MARC Conference
The Fourteenth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference:
Technology Enhanced Innovative Assessment: Development, Modeling, and Scoring from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
- 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, including a 50-minute presentation by each speaker followed by 10 minutes of Q and A.
Presentation Schedule
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| Time | Title | Presenter(s) |
| 7:00-8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcome and Comments | Hong Jiao (University of Maryland) |
| 8:45-9:45 | The Virtual World and Reality of Testing: Simulation- & Game-based Assessments | Alina von Davier (ETS) |
| 9:45-10:45 | Stealth Assessment in Games | Valerie Shute (Florida State University) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Designing, Implementing and Researching the Effects of Narrative-Based Assessment in Virtual Environments | Diane Jass Ketelhut (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00-2:00 | SimScientists: Affordances of Science Simulations for Formative and Summative Assessment | Edys Quellmalz (Wested) |
| 2:00-3:00 | Exploring the Psychometric Properties of Innovative Items in CAT | Ada Woo, Doyoung Kim, & Hong Qian (NCSBN) |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15-4:15 | Exploring A Psychometric Model for Calibrating Innovative Items Embedded in Multiple Contexts | Hong Jiao & Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland) |
| 4:15-5:15 | Using Educational Data Mining on Log Files to Do Real Time Assessment of Science Inquiry Skills | Janice D. Gobert (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) |
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| 7:00-8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:30-9:30 | Validity Issues for Technology Enhanced Innovative Assessments | Brian Clauser (NBME) |
| 9:30-10:30 | Principled Design and Development for Embedding Assessment in Games and Simulated Environments: It's No Game, with Illustrations | Steve Ferrara &Paul Nichols (Pearson) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45-11:45 | Measuring Well and Modeling Good Teaching and Learning Practice: An Example from CBAL | Randy Bennett (ETS) |
| 11:45-12:45 | ICT Literacy - Learning in Digital Networks | Mark Wilson, Kathleen Scalise, & Perman Gochyyev (University of California, Berkeley, University of Oregon, University of California, Berkeley) |
| 12:45-1:00 | Closing Comments | Robert Lissitz (University of Maryland) |