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         Solution Tree Annual Conference on Standards and Assessment

April 14-16, 2010
Las Vegas, Nevada

This conference offers a range of assessment strategies and the time to explore, network, and discover the tools that will work best for you. This event will help you find direction and return home with practical ideas for making your assessments timely, precise, and instrumental to maximizing your instructional time.

Join McREL’s President & CEO, Timothy Waters, in a keynote presentation as he explores what our schools would look like if we treated every student failure as a catastrophic event and outlines how to ensure that every student who enters our system leaves it with a full range of post-secondary and life opportunities.

         Assessment, Grading, and Record Keeping in a Standards-Based System (Workshop)
         The Power of Data
         Comprehensive Accountability Systems: A Framework for Evaluation (revised edition)
         What States Can Learn About State Standards and Assessment Systems from No Child Left Behind Documents and Interviews with Central Region Assessment Directors
         Policy Brief: No Child Left Behind: Realizing the Vision
         How are Educators Using Data? A Comparative Analysis of Superintendent, Principal, and Teachers' Perceptions of Accountability Systems
         Understanding How Principals Use Data in a New Environment of Accountability
         Understanding How Superintendents Use Data in a New Environment of Accountability
         Understanding No Child Left Behind
         Designing a Sustainable Standards-Based Assessment System
         Evaluating for Success: An Evaluation Guide for Schools and Districts
         Transforming Classroom Grading

         Issues Brief: Digging Deeper: Where Does the Public Stand on Standards-based Education?
         Issues Brief: Examining the Meaning of Accountability: Reframing the Construct
         Changing Schools, September 2000
         Changing Schools, Summer 2002
         Changing Schools, Winter 2002
         Policy Brief: High-Stakes Testing: Trends and Issues
         Policy Brief: Standards-Based Accountability Systems

         National Assessment of Student Progress (NAEP)
NAEP offers a nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America’s students know and can do in various subject areas.
         National Association of Test Directors (NATD)
NATD is an association of professionals with responsibilities for administering assessment programs in K–12 public education settings.
         National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
CRESST conducts research on K–12 education testing.
         National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
NCME is an organization dedicated to advancing the science of measurement in the field of education.
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