UW Event on Student Testing
Also next week on Tuesday, October 29th at Kane Hall on the UW campus at 7:00 pm- 9 pm Accountability at a Crossroads: Using Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teacher Effectiveness
A panel of leading educators at the forefront of testing and teacher evaluation will share their differing perspectives on the questions:
DR. JOE WILLHOFT – Executive Director, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium*
JUSTIN FOX-BAILEY – Teacher, Snohomish School District; Member, WEA Executive Committee
CHRIS KORSMO – Executive Director, League of Education Voters
MICHAELA MILLER – Director, State Policy and Outreach, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Moderator - Brian Jeffries, State Assessment Program Director at Data Recognition Corporation. DRC is a contractor to OSPI to provide operations support for the MSP, HSPE and EOC assessments in science and math.
This event is sponsored by the Master's in Education Policy at the College of Education, UW.
*This is the group that Washington state belongs to in order to develop the Common Core Assessments (the other group is PARCC).
I give a lot of pause in offering this up to you - I'm not sure what kind of love-fest for Common Core this might be but it could be interesting.
A panel of leading educators at the forefront of testing and teacher evaluation will share their differing perspectives on the questions:
- Is this a sound/effective policy?
- What is to be achieved, if anything, in holding teachers accountable for their students’ test scores?
- What tests should be used?
- What’s ultimately at risk for the students, the teachers, the community?
DR. JOE WILLHOFT – Executive Director, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium*
JUSTIN FOX-BAILEY – Teacher, Snohomish School District; Member, WEA Executive Committee
CHRIS KORSMO – Executive Director, League of Education Voters
MICHAELA MILLER – Director, State Policy and Outreach, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Moderator - Brian Jeffries, State Assessment Program Director at Data Recognition Corporation. DRC is a contractor to OSPI to provide operations support for the MSP, HSPE and EOC assessments in science and math.
This event is sponsored by the Master's in Education Policy at the College of Education, UW.
*This is the group that Washington state belongs to in order to develop the Common Core Assessments (the other group is PARCC).
I give a lot of pause in offering this up to you - I'm not sure what kind of love-fest for Common Core this might be but it could be interesting.
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CT
Pot calling kettle...
Stainless Steel
Find where I ever said I was an expert. I'll wait.
Friend of PcK
Do I think she knows public education? Yes. Do I think she's an expert on student testing or using student testing for teacher evaluations? No and neither am I.
This event is free and open to the public. I would hope people who are interested do attend. There will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions of the panel.
Any guesses as to why my kindergartener was tested?
What I find interesting is - WHERE are the proffs at the U.W. College of Education ?? Isn't tenure supposed to insure you can be objective, instead of just looking like another flavor of craven lining up for your crumbs from BMGF?
CollegeOfCowards?