FOCUSING ON ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING:
Proceedings from Two MSP Workshops from the National Research Council
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
NATIONAL SCIENCE RESOURCES CENTER
MATH/SCIENCE PARTNERSHIPS WORKSHOP
ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING
PLENARY AND BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
February 1-3, 2004
May 16-18, 2004
- Combined workshop agendas by topic with hyperlinks to workshop resources
- Chronological Agendas for the February Workshop and for the May Workshop
- Workshop goals and objectives
Front Matter to the Proceedings (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
- Biosketches of members of the workshop steering committee (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
- Presenters' Biosketches for the
- List of Participants at the February workshop and the May workshop [not available online]
- Titles of NRC reports distributed to workshop participants on compendium CD-ROMs
- Additional resources from speakers that were distributed at the February workshop
- Additional resources from speakers that were distributed at the May workshop
- Additional background reading distributed during February workshop and for the May workshop
- Additional information about the National Academies' Math/Science Partnership RETA Project
- Information about the National Science Foundation's Math/Science Partnership Initiative
- To introduce workshop attendees to the expanding body of research about assessing student learning and the relationship between assessment of learning and accountability, as synthesized in National Research Council reports such as Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment; Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Large-Scale and Classroom Assessment; Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools; Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards; and High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation.
- To provide attendees with guidance on the implications of research on human learning on approaches to assessing student learning.
- To help attendees learn how to apply research on assessment and accountability to their partnership environments by providing opportunities through discussions and breakout sessions to explore aspects of this research more deeply.
Workshop attendees will address these Goals and Objectives during the workshop through
- An introductory hands-on, interactive activity on assessing student learning at both the K-12 and undergraduate levels. Subsequent facilitated discussions throughout the workshop will allow attendees to recognize more deeply the issues and opportunities associated with various types of assessments of learning.
- Presentations, demonstrations, and facilitated discussions of assessment principles with experts who have served on the authoring committees for those reports and others who are engaged in translating assessment research into the improvement of curricula, instruction, and professional development programs for faculty.
- Breakout sessions in which attendees will be able to select aspects of assessment and accountability that they will explore in greater detail with the experts who will serve as workshop facilitators.
- Time reserved for MSP teams to discuss what they have learned throughout the workshop and how those principles can be applied to their own partnership environments. Experts will be available to participate in these team discussions.
Workshop attendees will prepare for the workshop by
- Receiving 14 NRC reports on assessment, accountability, and human learning on a CD-ROM after registering for the workshop.
- Developing with other members of their MSP team a series of issues and challenges that they face in assessment of student learning and accountability. These issues will be sent to the NRC and distributed to the expert presenters and facilitators prior to the workshop so that facilitated discussions and breakout sessions can specifically address some of these issues.