Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e9DBWL914610; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 07:32:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 07:32:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s9e6b9f4.005@jsi.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Barbara Garner" <Barbara_Garner@jsi.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:295] Standards-Based Reform on EFF list X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Status: O Content-Length: 3000 Lines: 91 I've been asked to post this. Check back to Volume 3, Issue C, on Standards Based Reform for an overview. ************ If you're interested in EFF or in standards-based reform in general, Regie Stites is going to respond to questions about the Equipped for the Future (EFF) Standards and standards-based educational reform on the NIFL-EFF electronic discussion list. Subscribe via the NIFL/Lincs website at http://nifl.gov. Regie Stites is an Educational Researcher in the Center for Education and Human Services of SRI International. Dr. Stites is a specialist in literacy studies with a background in cultural anthropology and applied linguistics. He received his Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992. Prior to coming to SRI, Dr. Stites was a Research Associate in the National Center for Research on Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA and a Senior Researcher in the National Center on Adult Literacy and International Literacy Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has experience as a college instructor and as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages in the USA and in the Peoples Republic of China. His current research focuses on applications of educational technology and on assessment and policy issues in literacy and adult basic education. Dr. Stites was an advisor to the Mayors Commission on Literacys work on the EFF Citizen/Community Member Role Map. He is the author of the 1999 Focus on Basics article: A User's Guide to Standards-Based Educational Reform: >From Theory to Practice, located at: <http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/fob/1999/regiestites.html>. He is now assisting EFF in planning assessment development and validation processes. Here's the format for this activity: 1. NIFL-4EFFers, please post your questions for Regie no later than 10/17. 2. Regie will post his responses on a few different occasions, 10/17 to 10/23. 3. Regie has also agreed to continue as a participant in an open 4EFF discussion, 10/23 to 10/29. Here's a short list of topics that Regie Stities and I think are of interest to the NIFL-4EFF Discussion List and that he would enjoy discussing with us. Please post your questions for Regie in these areas: - the role of assessment in standards-based educational reform - ways of judging the validity of an assessment - differences between 'traditional' and performance-based assessment - aligning instruction and assessment with the EFF Standards Regie will also respond to questions about the role of technology in supporting learning aligned with the EFF Standards. Post your questions for Regie by October 17th. Thanks, Ronna Ronna G. Spacone NIFL-4EFF List Moderator rgspacone@aol.com Phone 202.338.2703 ****************************** Barbara Garner phone (617) 482-9485 World Education fax (617) 482-0617 44 Farnsworth Street e-mail bgarner@worlded.org Boston, MA 02210-1211
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