[Assessment 514] Meeting of the Minds II SymposiumTaylor, Jackie jataylor at utk.eduThu Sep 21 23:04:35 EDT 2006
Hi All, I thought this might be of interest to you! Please read on ~ Jackie Taylor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ National Adult Education Researcher-Practitioner Symposium: A Meeting of the Minds II Join us for this exciting dialogue among adult education researchers, practitioners, and policy makers! Nationally recognized adult education researchers will discuss their studies in such areas as reading, learner persistence, English as a Second Language instructional strategies, technology innovations, transitioning adults to college, authentic materials, health literacy, adult numeracy, family literacy, social justice, innovations in statewide assessment, practitioner inquiry, professional development, and many more. In addition, a featured concurrent session consists of a panel of adult literacy learners. Presenters include Kathleen Bailey, Hal Beder, Alisa Belzer, Beth Bingman, John Comings, Larry Condelli, Ros Davidson, Ron Glass, John Fleishman, Daphne Greenberg, Kathy Harris, Erik Jacobson, Jere Johnston, Tara Joyce, Cheryl Keenan, Mark Kutner, Susan Levine, Myrna Manly, Dennis Porter, Paul Porter, Steve Reder, Pat Rickard, Rima Rudd, Maricel Santos, Robin Schwarz, Renee Sherman, Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, Cristine Smith, John Strucker, Robin Waterman, Cynthia Zafft, and others. Throughout the symposium, each research presentation will be followed by a panel of practitioners who will respond to the presentations, and then by group discussions among participants who will share their reactions and explore implications from their perspectives as practitioners, researchers, and policy makers. The opening plenary session on Thursday features presentations by John Comings on Advice from NCSALL Research on Building High Quality Programs and by Mark Kutner on results of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) and the Health Literacy survey. The plenary session on Friday features a panel discussion on the topic of how research influences policy in adult literacy education. Dates of the Symposium are November 30-December 2, 2006, at the Sheraton Grand Hotel, Sacramento. To register online for the Symposium, visit the Web site www.researchtopractice.org <http://www.researchtopractice.org/> . The complete program schedule will be posted to the Symposium Web site within the next few days. Registration is open now. Sponsors of the Symposium are the California Department of Education (CDE), the American Institutes for Research, the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO), and National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL). Don't miss this exciting opportunity! Registration is limited to the first 300 people. Visit the Symposium Web site and register now! We look forward to seeing you in Sacramento on November 30. -Mary Ann Corley, Ph.D. CALPRO Director and Symposium Coordinator American Institutes for Research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/assessment/attachments/20060921/531b3ee9/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT8711054.txt Url: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/assessment/attachments/20060921/531b3ee9/attachment.txt
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