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 e9HDQI915568; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:26:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:26:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <39EC532B.69F239E5@nr.infi.net> 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: "amy r. trawick" <atrawick@nr.infi.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:1217] Question for Regie Stites X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) Status: O Content-Length: 4423 Lines: 101 Regie, thank you for your willingness to join us this week. My question for you may be a little broad--it captures several of the areas Ronna laid out as the framework for the discussion--but I do think it's an important one. The development of the assessment component of EFF is key, I think, in realizing EFF's vision for adult literacy and lifelong learning. Multiple customers will need to buy in to a new way of thinking about assessment. In your opinion, then, what are the most integral factors which affect whether a performance-based assessment system will be useful for learner, teacher, program, funder, *and* state/federal purposes? I look forward to your responses throughout the rest of the week. Thank you! Amy Trawick High Point, NC Rgspacone@aol.com wrote: > Hi All, > > >From today to Oct 23, Regie Stites will be here to respond to questions in > the following areas: > > 1. the role of technology in supporting learning aligned with the EFF > Standards. > 2. the role of assessment in standards-based educational reform > 3. ways of judging the validity of an assessment > 4. differences between 'traditional' and performance-based assessment > 5. aligning instruction and assessment with the EFF Standards > > So far we've received a question about the the level of specificity in the > standards: Are they specific enough to guide instruction and assessment? And > a question about staff development: What do we, practitioners in the field, > need to know and be able to do to use the standards; to align instruction and > assessment with the EFF standards? > > For the details on this special learning opportunity, I've pasted the text > from the original announcement below. > > Ronna > ***************************************************************************** > > I am pleased to announce that Regie Stites has agreed to join us online > at NIFL-4EFF and respond to questions about the Equipped for the Future > (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 Peoples 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 Mayors Commission on Literacys 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. > > Here's a short list of topics that Regie Stities and I think are of interest > to the NIFL-4EFF Discussion List and that he would enjoy discussing with us. > Please post your questions for Regie in these areas: > > - the role of assessment in standards-based educational reform > - ways of judging the validity of an assessment > - differences between 'traditional' and performance-based assessment > - aligning instruction and assessment with the EFF Standards > > Regie will also respond to questions about the role of technology in > supporting learning aligned with the EFF Standards. > > Post your questions for Regie by October 17th. > > Thanks, > Ronna > > Ronna G. Spacone > NIFL-4EFF List Moderator > rgspacone@aol.com > Phone 202.338.2703
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