Presentations from:

The 23rd Annual WERA/OSPI Washington State Assessment Conference “Testing Assumptions”

December 5-7, 2007

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Lynn Sawyer Keynote: How Dialogue Empowers Assumption Testing

Terry Bergeson Keynote: A New Direction in Assessment to Support Learning and Creativity

Workshop 5: Scaling and Equating

Workshop 8 Making Formative and Benchmark Assessments Count

1.4 Using the Nine Characteristics to Test Assumptions in School Improvement

1.6 Impact of Science Instruction on Washington State's Elementary Students

1.8 Middle School Mathematics Common Assessment Project - Part 1 | Part 2

1.9 National Board Certification as a Support for Work with Historically Underserved Students

1.11 NAEP 2007 and 2008 (Note: Presention is saved in Office 2007)

2.5 Lessons Learned from Reading Collection of Evidence (COE) Scoring - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

2.7 Addressing Institutional Racism: One District's Story

2.10 Science Instructional Material Enhancements - Sample Questions 1 | Sample Questions 2

2.11 The Becca Bill - Does it Work?

3.2 Literacy for Secondary Students and Strategies for their Teachers - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

3.4 Tapping the Contributions of Washington's Accomplished Teachers: Four Recent Studies about National Board Certification

3.7 Demystifying SPSS: Tips and Tricks for Beginning and Intermediate Users (NOTE: Presentation is saved in Office 2007)

3.11 Coaching New Administrators - A Program Case Study

4.2 Transitioning Math

4.3 Teacher Community and Inquiry-based Professional Development for Teachers of ELL Students

4.6 Development and Implementation of a Math Screening Assessment on a Districtwide Basis | Part 2

4.9 Lessons Learned from the Writing Collection of Evidence (COE) Scoring

4.11 Vertical Scaling and the Development of Skills

5.2 High School Predictors of College Course Readiness: Characteristics of High School Graduates Who Enroll in Remedial Math and English

5.3 WASL Performance of Exited English Language Learners: Interesting Findings and Possible Explanations

5.4 Myth Busting and Washington's Beginning Teachers: Do Half of Teachers Really Leave in the First Five Years?

5.5 Coaches in the Middle, but Productive

5.6 The WASL: Do Our Middle and High School Students Feel Prepared?

5.8 Homeless Education Issues

5.9 How Washington and Other Northwest States Support Schools Designated Under NCLB as "in need of improvement"

5.11 The TIME is Now! - Timely Discussions for Successful 8-16 Transitions