[Assessment] EFF Discussion Next Week!Marie Cora marie.cora at hotspurpartners.comThu Jan 5 12:33:08 EST 2006
Announcement Please join the National Institute for Literacy Assessment Discussion List for a discussion on Teaching and Assessing with EFF Date: January 9 through 13, 2006 Guests: Aaron Kohring, Peggy McGuire, Regie Stites, and EFF Center Staff and Consultants. Aaron Kohring is a Research Associate at the Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee, and is Coordinator of the Equipped for the Future Websites and Moderator of the NIFL Content Standards Discussion List. Peggy McGuire, M.A., is a Senior Research Associate and Equipped for the Future National Consultant at the Center for Literacy Studies, The University of Tennessee. Regie Stites, Ph.D., is Program Manager of the Literacy and Lifelong Learning, Center for Education Policy, SRI International in Menlo Park, CA. Dr. Stites assists EFF in planning assessment development and validation processes. Our discussion will focus on the EFF Assessment Framework, and how EFF assessments are developed for classroom use. Suggested preparations for this discussion: Go to the homepage of the EFF Collection at http://eff.cls.utk.edu/default.htm Ask yourself: what do I know about EFF? Click on Standards (left-hand toolbar) (http://eff.cls.utk.edu/assessment/standards.htm) Ask yourself: what are standards? what's the difference between EFF standards and competencies? Click on Guides (left-hand toolbar) http://eff.cls.utk.edu/assessment/guides.htm Ask yourself: what are EFF Performance Continua and how can I use this in my classroom? Click on Assessment Resource Collection (square red button) (http://eff.cls.utk.edu/assessment/default.htm) Ask yourself: what makes EFF assessments different from other types of assessment? Click on Assessment Tools (left-hand toolbar) (http://eff.cls.utk.edu/assessment/assessment_tools.htm) Ask yourself: is the Read With Understanding Assessment appropriate for my students' needs? Thought-provokers: 1. Pick any EFF standard, read its definition, and imagine what it would look like if you were actually assessing the application of the integrated skill process described in the standard's definition. 2. How often do you feel a need to look for evidence that learning has happened? How does the nature of the evidence you are looking for change as you look for learning within the space of one class session, one week, one week, one course, one year, and so on. Please join us! marie cora Moderator, NIFL Assessment Discussion List, and Coordinator/Developer LINCS Assessment Special Collection at http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment marie.cora at hotspurpartners.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/assessment/attachments/20060105/5ee51676/attachment.html
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