[NIFL-FOBASICS:296] Re: Standards-Based Reform on EFF list

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Barbara Garner <Barbara_Garner@jsi.com>
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Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 7:31 AM
Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:295] Standards-Based Reform on EFF list


> 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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