Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e9BJhT929488; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:43:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:43:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <10.3643b9d.27161c25@aol.com> Errors-To: rgspacone@aol.com Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Rgspacone@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:1209] Regie Stites, 4EFF Guest Speaker X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 107 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Status: O Content-Length: 1925 Lines: 51 NIFL-4EFF Colleagues: I am pleased to announce that Regie Stites has agreed to join us online and respond to questions about the EFF standards and standards-based educational reform. Regie Stites is an Educational Researcher in the Center for Education and Human Services of SRI International. Dr. Stites is a specialist in literacy studies with a background in cultural anthropology and applied linguistics. He received his Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992. Prior to coming to SRI, Dr. Stites was a Research Associate in the National Center for Research on Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA and a Senior Researcher in the National Center on Adult Literacy and International Literacy Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has experience as a college instructor and as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages in the USA and in the People’s Republic of China. His current research focuses on applications of educational technology and on assessment and policy issues in literacy and adult basic education. Dr. Stites was an advisor to the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy’s work on the EFF Citizen/Community Member Role Map. He is the author of the 1999 Focus on Basics article: A User's Guide to Standards-Based Educational Reform: From Theory to Practice, located at: <http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/fob/1999/regiestites.html>. He is now assisting EFF in planning assessment development and validation processes. Here's the format for this activity: 1. NIFL-4EFFers, please post your questions for Regie no later than 10/17. 2. Regie will post his responses on a few different occasions, 10/17 to 10/23. 3. Regie has also agreed to continue as a participant in an open 4EFF discussion, 10/23 to 10/29. Thanks! Ronna Ronna G. Spacone NIFL-4EFF List Moderator rgspacone@aol.com Phone 202.338.2703
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