CASMA-ACT Invitational Conference on Current Challenges in Educational Testing

Saturday, November 3, 2007

ACT Conference Center, Iowa City, IA

Today education faces many important testing and measurement issues.  To address some of these issues, ACT and The University of Iowa's Center for Advanced Studies in Measurement and Assessment (CASMA), located in the College of Education, sponsors a biennial, one-day conference at ACT's new Conference Center in Iowa City on the subject of "Current Challenges in Educational Testing."  Nationally known speakers address various topics.

CASMA-ACT Invitational Conference 2007

Keynote Speaker: Jim Popham , Professor Emeritus UCLA

       Instructional Sensitivity (pdf)
 
 

Higher Education Accountability

Ernie Pascarella, University of Iowa                 Challenges in Higher Ed Accountability (pdf)

Margaret Miller, University of Virginia

Computerized Performance Testing
                   

Challenges to Testing

        

Media Perspective:

Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed

Lynn Olson, Ed Week

Stephen Sawchuk, Education Daily                 Teachers & Testing in the NCLB Era (pdf)

Test Users' Perspective:

Doug Christensen, Nebraska Dept of Ed

Casey Marks, National Council of State Boards of Nursing

"Hot Topics" Panel Discussion
                   

Reception

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