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Dr. Toni Stroter

NATD President

The implementation and evaluation of the

Common Core Standards has begun

sweeping across this country and will

continue to affect the field of Assessment

in ways we have yet to fully understand.

But as a nation and for those neighboring

countries we are embracing and

preparing to study its impact from

multiple perspectives. The National

Association of Test Directors (NATD) as

an organization with most of its members

being touched by the nationwide wave of

the Common Core Standards and other

changes in Assessment is equipping

itself for the journey. I would like to share

with you my Presidential Initiatives that

are guided by and are in alignment with

the changes in Assessment to include

those involving the Common Core

Standards.

Inside this issue:

We have a great deal of exciting new

developments taking place within our

organization. I would like to call your

attention to a few. We have redesigned

our website (www.natd.org). This has

allowed us to position this organization

as a key website host for the sharing and

communicating of assessment and other

closely related changes as they occur.

There are several ad hoc committees

working on various aspects of the

organization such as the Website

Committee (Dale Whittington, Chair), the

Graduate Student Committee (Sarah

Newton, Chair), the Nominations

Committee (Trevor Mahlum, Chair) , and

the Constitution Review Committee

(Mary Yakimowski, Chair).

President’s Message

SPRING 2014

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President’s Message 1-2

Calendar of Events 3

NCME Annual

Breakfast Meeting

Sponsor

4

NCME Annual

Breakfast Business

Meeting Speaker

5

April 2014 NATD/NCME Invited

Symposium 6-7

NATD/DRE Annual

Dinner (sponsored by

CTB/McGraw-Hill)

8

AERA/NATD 2014 Presidential Invited

Session 9-11

Consortia for

Presidential Session 12-13

NATD Officers 14-15

Membership Form 16

New Officers/

Outstanding Awards 17

NATD Board,

2013-2014 18

New NATD Website: National Association of Test Directors www.natd.org/ Be My Friend on Facebook www.facebook.com/NATD.ORG

http://www.natd.org

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More information will be coming soon regarding these

committees and their activities. In the meantime, the

Constitution Review Committee has developed a survey in

concert with the NATD Board of Directors and would like to

get your feedback on some considerations for amendments

to the NATD constitution. The survey can be found at

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PMJWP73. Please take

a few minutes and complete the survey.

The Nomination Committee recruited individuals interested

in the 2014 NATD Board of Directors vacant positions.

Also, included in this newsletter edition is an updated listing

of the NATD Board of Directors to include a picture for your

enjoyment. If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask

any one of us as we have a strong, dedicated and

passionate Board of Directors that represent your interest

in this organization. Please join me in saluting the Board of

Directors for their time and effort devoted to this

organization.

Sincerely, we are always interested in improving the

organization and taking it to new heights and endless

possibilities. I would like to thank you for your continued

support.

President’s Message...continued from page 1

Presidential Initiatives for 2013-2014

Constitutional Review Committee -- Mary Yakimowski (Co-Chair), Sherry Rose-Bond (Co-Chair), Steve Henry, Bon-

nie Swan, Sarah Newton, Trevor Mahlum, & Toni Stroter.

Graduate Student Symposium/Session -- Sarah Newton (Chair)

Website Committee --Dale Whittington (Chair), Sherry Rose-Bond, Toni Stroter, Sarah Newton, & Bonnie Swan

Membership Outreach Efforts --Sherry Rose-Bond (Co-Chair), Dale Whittington (Co-Chair), Sarah Newton, & Toni

Stroter

Division H, DRE & NATD SIG update -- Steve Henry (Chair)

Nominating Committee -- Trevor Mahlum (Chair), Bonnie Swan, Zollie Stevenson, & Ray Hart

Bi-weekly email posts to members -- Toni Stroter

Outstanding Awards Committee --- Zollie Stevenson Jr. (Chair)

AERA / NCME 2014

2014 AERA Annual Meeting

“The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy”

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

April 3 – April 7, 2014

NATD Breakfast Business Meeting (3 April 2014 )

NATD/NCME 2014 Symposium (4 April 2014 )

NATD Board of Directors Meeting ( 4 April 2014)

NATD/DRE Annual Dinner (5 April 2014)

AERA Presidential/NATD/Division H Common Core Standards Symposium (6 April 2014)

See the calendar of events for more details.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PMJWP73


Calendar of Events

THUR

APRIL 3

FRI

APRIL 4

SAT

APRIL 5

SUN

APRIL 6

MON

APRIL7

NATD Breakfast &

Business Meeting

7:30 to 10:00am

Loews Hotel

Congress Room

NATD/NCME Sym-

posium

10:00 to 11:40 am

Loews Hotel

Commonwealth A

Division H Breakfast

and Business Meet-

ing,

8:15 to 10:15am

Marriott , Third Lev-

el, Liberty AB

Division H Graduate

Students/Early Ca-

reer Mentoring

Seminar

10:00am to

12:00pm

Convention Center,

100 Level, 113A

Division H Vice-

Presidential Invited

Session.

12:25 to 1:55pm

Convention Center,

100 Level, 116

AERA-Presidential

Session/NATD/

Division H

10:35am to 12:05pm

Convention Center,

100 Level, 119B

Directors of Re-

search and Evalua-

tion (DRE)

Business Meeting

12:30 to 4:30pm

Convention Center,

200 Level, 204B

NATD Board of Di-

rectors Meeting from

2:00 to 4:30pm

Division H Vice-

Presidential Invited

Session

4:05 to 6:05pm

Convention Center,

100 Level, 116

Division H Movers

and Shakers Meet-

ing

8:00 to 10:00 pm

VP suite, Marriot

NATD/DRE Annual

Dinner 6:30 recep-

tion &

7:00 dinner time

City Tavern

Division H Social

Event

7:00 to 10:00 pm

Morris House Hotel,

231 S. 8th St.

Thanks to NCME Annual Breakfast Business Meeting sponsor;

Denis Jarvinen, President of Strategic Measurement and Evaluation, Inc.

Strategic Measurement and Evaluation Inc.

http://escoreny.org/index.html

NATD Annual Breakfast Meeting:

Date: April 3, 2014

Time: 7:30 TO 10:00 AM

Location: Loews Philadelphia Hotel (Congress Rm.)


NCME Annual Breakfast Business Meeting

http://escoreny.org/index.html


NCME Annual Breakfast Business Meeting

Acknowledgement of our Presenter

Title: Online Testing: What Is Required and Will States and Schools Be Ready? Author: Douglas Levin Abstract: Each of the six federally funded multi-state assessment consortia are required to use technology to the maximum extent feasible for the development and delivery of the assessments. This requirement, combined with the voluntary participation of a large majority of states, is causing a rapid acceleration in the technology infrastructure of states and schools. More importantly, it is bringing greater access to technology and digital learning tools to American classrooms. This presentation will describe the technology requirements across all 6 multi-state assessment systems and provide an update on the readiness of states and schools to utilize the online assessments.

Douglas Levin, Executive Director State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Email: [email protected]

Douglas Levin is the Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based State Educational Technology Directors Associa-tion (SETDA). The mission of SETDA is to build and increase the capacity of state and national leaders to improve edu-cation through technology policy and practice. In this position, he works with and represents U.S. state and territorial ed-ucational technology directors to other national education groups, federal policymakers, the U.S. Department of Educa-tion, the private sector, and the media. Named by Tech & Learning as one of the top 10 most influential people in EdTech in 2011, he brings 20 years of Washington, DC-based education policy and research experience to SETDA, gained through prominent roles in the private and non-profit sectors. He formerly worked with the National Association of State Boards of Education, the American Institutes for Research, and Cable in the Classroom, the cable industry's na-tional education foundation. He played key roles in developing the nation’s first three national education technology plans and in conducting research and evaluations of major educational technology programs and initiatives. He is a 2006 recipient of a Making It Happen award for educational technology leadership and serves on the Virginia Open Education Curriculum Board by appointment of Governor McDonnell.

We face a pivotal time in the security of K12 assessments.

Sweeping changes are affecting state assessments,

including the integration of the Common Core Assessment

Standards, Teacher Accountability, and the PARCC and

Smarter Balance Assessment Consortia. As we’ve seen

through myriad high-profile cheating incidents and

scandals, it is now more important than ever to empower

district and school test administrators with the knowledge of

not only where we have been concerning cheating and test

security, but more importantly, where we are going. The

challenges are certainly growing: new technologies have

created ever-greater risks to reliable test results. However,

cutting-edge innovations empower test program leaders to

better protect them. Looking ahead, we know the

challenges will not only be different, but even tougher. In

order to keep up, we’ll need creativity, thought-leadership,

innovative technology, and of course, funding to build

strong methods and tactics in the ongoing battle for test

results that matter.

This symposium will provide a comprehensive

understanding of past and current issues, and the crucial

test security issues our industry must face in the not-too-

distant future. Each panel member will explore a test-

security related topic—either something you have

contended with already, or one you are likely to encounter

in the near future. The panel is comprised of industry

experts and other thought leaders with varied backgrounds

and expertise.

“Why are we presenting this NCME/NATD joint session of

the 2014 conference?” Because we fundamentally believe

in quality testing and trustworthy test results. Don’t miss

out. You will come away better informed for protecting your

items, tests, and reputations. The session will be a panel

discussion starting with brief panelist introductory

statements highlighting experience and research in testing

security followed by a moderated conversation regarding

key questions and ample opportunities for audience

questions.

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming” -

David Bowie

Session Chair and Organizer: Dr. Bonnie Swan NATD Vice President/President-Elect Director, Program Evaluation and Educational Research Group University of Central Florida

Panel Moderator: Steve Addicot Vice President Caveon Test Security

Panel Members: Rachel Schoenig Assistant Vice President, Head of Test Security ACT, Inc. Iowa City, Iowa Dr. Walt Drane Assistant Director Office of Student Assessment Mississippi Department of Education Dr. James Wollack Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of Testing Services University of Wisconsin—Madison Dr. John Fremer President, Caveon Consulting Servcies, Caveon LLC

April 2014 NATD/NCME Invited Symposium:

Trustworthy Test Results—Cheating in the Past, Present, and Future:

How can we ensure quality testing and trustworthy tests results?


Don’t miss out! Symposium is scheduled for

Friday, April 4, 2014 10:00—11:45 am

Loews Hotel Philadelphia Commonwealth A

Steve Addicott is one of the founders of Caveon Test Security, and currently serves as Senior Vice President. He is an experienced technology professional and self-proclaimed test security evangelist. With 25 years of industry experience, Steve’s career has focused on growing companies

in the technology and measurement arenas. In addition to driving Caveon’s growth, Steve is deeply involved in the delivery of Caveon’s proprietary security services to myriad testing companies. Through hundreds of client engagements, Steve has gained a close perspective of the security challenges faced by testing organizations, and recognizes the most effective means of confronting those challenges. Addicott has been instrumental in shaping test security policy around the use of data forensics in certification and licensure and in K-12 education. In this arena, his expertise has influenced test security policy at the state, district and local levels. He spearheads Caveon’s ongoing work with many large, international certification and licensure programs and several state departments of education, formalizing the use of Caveon services into their test result quality assurance processes. An avid cyclist and skier, Steve resides in Park City, Utah with his wife and two children.

Rachel R. Watkins Schoenig, J.D., is Assistant Vice President and Head of Test Security for ACT, Inc. Rachel has led development of new security capabilities across ACT, including new data forensics tools, digital communication tools, a redesign of ACT’s test security framework, and an industry-leading program to deter impersonation

testing in college admissions exams. She has led international and domestic investigations for both computer-based and paper-and-pencil testing models. Rachel presents frequently on test security topics at industry events and authored or co-authored published articles and chapters. She chaired the Association of Test Publishers Test Security Sub-Committee for Best Practices and is a member of ASIS International. As a licensed attorney, she is admitted to practice in Iowa, Illinois and several federal jurisdictions and is a member of the Iowa and Illinois Bar, where she serves on multiple committees. Prior to joining ACT, Rachel led the in-house legal department for a publicly-traded company engaged in international manufacturing and franchising, where she provided advice concerning mergers and acquisitions, distributorships, compliance, litigation, and intellectual property matters.

Walt Drane is the Assistant Director of Student Assessment at the Mississippi Department of Education. He is currently providing continued oversight over assessments in mathematics and English Language Arts for grades 3-8, science in grades 5 and 8, end-of-course high stakes

assessments in the areas of Algebra I, English II, Biology I, and U.S. History, and alternate assessments for those students in grades 3-8 and 12 who have significant cognitive disabilities. He is also a member of the Leadership Team for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), as well as, the State Lead for the upcoming PARCC Field Test in the State of Mississippi. Prior to serving at the Mississippi Department of Education, Mr. Drane served as an assistant

principal, athletic director, and elementary and middle school teacher. He holds a B.A. in Political Science with a focus on International Relations, a Master’s degree in Education, and an Education Specialist degree in Educational Leadership.

James A. Wollack is an Associate Professor in the Quantitative Methods program within the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), and serves as the Director of the UW Testing & Evaluation Services and the UW System Center for Placement Testing, as well as the Research Director for the

UW General Education Assessment. An elected member of the UW Teaching Academy, Dr. Wollack teaches courses and leads frequent workshops in psychometrics, assessment, and research methods. James A Wollack’s scholarly interests include test security, test construction, and item response theory. He is a contributor to the 4th edition of Educational Measurement (2006) and is co-editor of the Handbook of Test Security (2013, with J. Fremer). He has published numerous journal articles and is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences. Dr. Wollack frequently consults with state testing programs and testing organizations, serves as an expert witness to certification agencies on cases involving suspected cheating on high-stakes exams, and presides over cases of alleged student academic misconduct at the University of Wisconsin. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for both the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and the National College Testing Association (NCTA), the Executive Committee for the Conference on Test Security, and is a past President of the Measurement Services Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association (AERA).

John Fremer is a Founder of Caveon Test Security; a company that helps improve security in test development, test administration, reporting, and score use and which assists states, test program sponsors, and other entities to investigate testing irregularities. He serves as President, Caveon Consulting Services and is actively

involved in Caveon Security Audits and related services such as developing Security Handbooks and Conducting Security Investigations. John has more than 50 years of testing experience, including management positions at ETS and Pearson. He is a Past President of the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) as well as the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and the Association for Assessment in Counseling (AAC). John received the 2007 ATP Award for Contributions to Measurement. He served as editor for the NCME journal Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice. He is co-Editor with Jim Wollack of the Handbook of Test Security (2013). John presents frequently at national and international testing conferences on the topics of standards for testing, test and test program development, and test security. He posts regularly to a Blog CSI Security Insights at Caveon.com. John has a B.A. from Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude, and a Ph.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University where his dissertation committee consisted of Walter MacGinitie, Robert L. Thorndike, and Sam Ball.

April 2014 NATD/NCME Invited Symposium Presenters


Take a step back in time at the historic City Tavern Restaurant. Built in 1773, the City Tavern was the gathering place for

most influential men in the colonies—when revolution was brewing, ale was flowing, and dining was an experience.

Executive Chef Walter Staib uses only authentic 18th century recipes in this historic venue.

Saturday, April 5

6:30 PM Reception

7:00 PM Dinner

City Tavern Restaurant

138 South 2nd Street at Walnut St.

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Thanks to CTB/McGraw-Hill who sponsor the NATD and DRE Dinner in Philadelphia.

The NATD/DRE Dinner is open only to members who RSVP'd by the March due date...


NATD/DRE DINNER

Message from the Sponsor

“CTB/McGraw-Hill is proud to

sponsor the NATD/DRE dinner

at AERA. We look forward to

seeing you in Philadelphia.”


Neal Finkelstein,

Senior Research Scientist, WestEd

2014 Session Symposium Proposal (interactive session)

Symposium Moderator/Chair: Antionette (Toni) Stroter, Ph.D. Director of Research, Evaluation & Assessment Email: [email protected] Symposium Moderator/Discussant: Ray Hart, Ph.D. Director of Research Council of the Great City Schools Email: [email protected]

Presenters: Ph.D. Doug Douglas Levin, Ph.D., Pascal D. Forgione, Jr., & Ph. D., Nancy A. Doorey Symposium Title: Transitioning to the Common Core State Standards: An overview of the activities of PARCC and Smarter Balanced to build capacity for implementation of the CCSS and CCSS-aligned Assessments with a focus on Technology Readiness.

Each of the major assessment consortia received supplemental grants of $15.8 million to help member states transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) assessments and prepare for the new assessment systems that will replace members’ current state assessments in Mathematics and English language arts/literacy in the 2014-15 school year. In that school year approximately forty states will begin to use a new set of K-12 formative and summative assessments that measure students’ college and career readiness on the Common Core State Standards. The implementation paths, in advance of 2014, vary by state, by district and by school site as educators in all roles prepare for the

transition to new standards to include technology and the state assessments. Major education research and support organizations at the county, state and national level – public and private - are providing support to educators around instructional approaches, professional development strategies, links to higher education systems, and assessment.

This session will summarize the activities carried out to date by the Consortia as well as those scheduled through the spring of 2015. In addition, an update will be provided on the efforts to ensure the technology infrastructure is in place for the new computer-based assessment systems. We seek to respond to: What are the expectations for the technology readiness (having enough devices and bandwidth for students to take the assessments online)? How do schools administer the assessments online given a) the time factor b) lack of devices, and c) limited of access to working computers? How will accountability measures be aligned to college- and career-ready goals and objectives?

This AERA Presidential symposium will bring together educators from several segments to talk about the process and progress of implementing the Common Core State Standards. The symposium will include leaders of the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessment consortia, as well leaders from key organizations that have developed technical assistance strategies. The panelists will also include district and state systems representatives, teachers and school administrators.

AERA/NATD 2014 Presidential Invited Session

Transitioning to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS): An Overview of the Activities of

the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced

to Build Capacity for Implementation of the CCSS and CCSS-Aligned Assessments with a

Focus on Technology Readiness

Mon, April 7, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Convention Center, 100 Level, 119B



Transitioning to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS): An Overview of the Activities of

the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced

to Build Capacity for Implementation of the CCSS and CCSS-Aligned Assessments with a

Focus on Technology Readiness

Presentation 1 Title: Update on the Comprehensive Assessment Consortia

Author1: Pascal D. Forgione, Jr., Ph. D., Distinguished Presidential Scholar and Executive Director Center for K-12 Assessment & Performance Management at ETS Email: [email protected]

Author2: Nancy A. Doorey Director of Programs The Center for K-12 Assessment & Perfor-mance Management at ETS Email: [email protected]

Abstract: This presentation will provide a brief overview of the designs of the two Comprehensive Assessment Con-sortia, PARCC and Smarter Balanced, and will provide up-dates on their implementation activities and timelines. Both of these consortia will be field testing their new online as-sessments in the spring of 2014 and will have released pro-fessional development modules to help educators learn to make effective use of the data from these assessment sys-tems. Full implementation of these systems is due to com-mence in the fall of 2014. In addition, this presentation will provide a brief summary of the designs of the two Alternate Assessment Consortia and the two English Language Profi-ciency Assessment Consortia, all of which are aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Presentation 2

Title: Online Testing: What Is Required and Will States and Schools Be Ready?

Author: Douglas Levin Executive Director State Educational Technology Direc-tors Association (SETDA) Email: [email protected]

Abstract: Each of the six federally funded multi-state as-sessment consortia are required to use technology to the maximum extent feasible for the development and delivery of the assessments. This requirement, combined with the voluntary participation of a large majority of states, is caus-ing a rapid acceleration in the technology infrastructure of states and schools. More importantly, it is bringing greater access to technology and digital learning tools to American classrooms. This presentation will describe the technology requirements across all 6 multi-state assessment systems and provide an update on the readiness of states and schools to utilize the online assessments.

Presentation 3

Title: How the PARCC and Smarter Balanced Digital Sys-tems (Item Banks, Libraries of Resources, etc.) Will Sup-port Innovation, Research, and Efficiencies

Author: Nancy A. Doorey Director of Programs The Center for K-12 Assessment & Perfor-mance Management at ETS Email: [email protected]

Abstract: The assessment consortia are devoting millions of dollars to the development of digital libraries, item bank-ing systems, data warehouses, digital instructional and pro-fessional development resources, and online collaboration tools. To varying degrees, the consortia are utilizing open source “plug and play” designs to ensure that the systems can take advantage of new innovations over time and to identify “best of breed” resources. In addition, these consor-tia will have the potential to provide an unprecedented anonymized data set which, if used for research projects, could support meaningful advances in K-12 education. This session will describe the architecture of these systems and how “going digital” can support innovation, research and efficiencies.



PRESENTERS

Dr. Pascal (Pat) D. Forgione Jr. was ap-pointed Distinguished Presidential Scholar and Executive Director for the K–12 Center at ETS in July 2009. His career as an edu-cator and educational administrator is ex-tensive. He served from 1999–2009, as the Superintendent of the Austin Independent School District (Texas). Previously, from

1996–1999, he was U.S. Commissioner of Education Sta-tistics for the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal agency. From 1991–1996, he was Delaware State Superintendent for Public Instruction. In 1991, he served as the first Executive Director for the U.S. Department of Edu-cation's National Education Goals Panel. Forgione has a solid background in educational research and assessment, having held positions with the Connecti-cut State Department of Education, the National Center for Research in Vocational Education at Ohio State University, the Syracuse Research Corporation, the Maryland State Department of Education and Stanford University. Forgione has also served as a consultant to, or member of, numerous educational organizations and initiatives, includ-ing: the Council of Chief State School Officers; the Council of the Great City Schools; the National Governors Associa-tion; U.S. Department of Education; U.S. Department of Defense; National Science Foundation; the College Board; RAND Corporation; American Education Research Associ-ation; and the National Council for Measurement in Educa-tion. In 2008, Forgione received the Richard R. Green Award as the National Urban Educator of the Year from the Council of the Great City Schools. In 2009, he was selected as the Austinite of the Year by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.

Nancy Doorey worked with Dr. Pat Forgio-ne in launching the K–12 Center at ETS in the summer of 2009 and the Center contin-ues to be the major client of her consulting business. Nancy has roots as a classroom teacher and has spent the past 17 years in educational policy and reform at the state and local levels. She served as a member of

the Delaware State Board of Education in the 1990s during development of the state's standards-based reform agen-da, and subsequently as a local school board member to support implementation through to the school and class-room levels. She served on the Delaware Vision 2015 Steering Committee, a broad-based group that studied best practices internationally and developed a blueprint for transformational change of the P-20 education system. That plan served as the foundation for the state's success-ful Race to the Top application. Doorey also has done con-

sulting work in the areas of educational reform communica-tions and project launch and management.

Douglas Levin is the Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based State Edu-cational Technology Directors Associa-tion (SETDA). The mission of SETDA is to build and increase the capacity of state and national leaders to improve educa-tion through technology policy and prac-tice. In this position, he works with and represents U.S. state and territorial edu-

cational technology directors to other national education groups, federal policymakers, the U.S. Department of Edu-cation, the private sector, and the media. Named by Tech & Learning as one of the top 10 most influential people in EdTech in 2011, he brings 20 years of Washington, DC-based education policy and research experience to SET-DA, gained through prominent roles in the private and non-profit sectors. He formerly worked with the National Associ-ation of State Boards of Education, the American Institutes for Research, and Cable in the Classroom, the cable indus-try's national education foundation. He played key roles in developing the nation’s first three national education tech-nology plans and in conducting research and evaluations of major educational technology programs and initiatives. He is a 2006 recipient of a Making It Happen award for educa-tional technology leadership and serves on the Virginia Open Education Curriculum Board by appointment of Gov-ernor McDonnell.


Dr. Jeanne M. Burns is currently the Associate Commissioner for Teacher and Leadership Initiatives for the Louisiana Board of Regents and is serving as Louisiana’s PARCC Higher Education Lead. She served as co-director of a $4.2 million grant awarded to the Office of the Governor by The Wallace Foundation (December 1,

2004 to June 30, 2008) and is currently co-director of a $3.4 million grant from The Wallace Foundation (July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2013) to improve educational leaders in Louisiana. She is also currently directing a $600,000 Core to College grant (December 1, 2011 to November 30, 2014) awarded to the Louisiana Board of Regents from the Rockefeller Philanthropy Foundation and directing a $120,000 Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) grant awarded to the Louisiana Board of Regents as part of a federal grant awarded to Florida to create the PARCC assessments. She has also served as principal investigator of a $3.2 million Title II Teacher Quality State Enhancement Grant awarded to the Office of the Governor (2000-2005) and a $400,000 grant awarded to the Louisiana Board of Regent by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (July 1, 2007 to August 31, 2009) to fully develop a Value-added Teacher Preparation Assessment Model.

Dr. Beverly L. Young is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Teacher Education and Public School Programs for the CSU system. She works with the campus Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Deans of Education in order to facilitate changes in teacher preparation within the 23-campus system. Prior to her work at the Chancellor's

Office of the CSU, Dr. Young was a faculty member in Teacher Education at CSU, Fullerton.

Dr. Neal Finkelstein is a Senior Research Scientist at WestEd who develops research and evaluation designs that study the impact of program implementation in K–12 public schools. Finkelstein ensures that evaluation designs feature high standards of evidence, and oversees the implementation of randomized field trials in education settings, including site

recruitment and data collection. His areas of expertise include K–12 school finance, academic preparation programs for high school youth, school-to-work, and early childhood education. Each area involves the collection, management, and analysis of large quantitative data sets as well as questions of cost, cost-effectiveness, and the marginal cost of policy decisions in education at the state and federal level.

Prior to joining WestEd, Finkelstein worked on large-scale program evaluations and policy analyses encompassing K–12 and higher education, and the bridge between them. Finkelstein served as Director of Educational Outreach Research and Evaluation for the University of California Office of the President. There he implemented research and evaluation designs that studied the effectiveness of K–12 student and school academic programs initiated by the University of California on 10 campuses throughout the state. These programs emphasized the connections between K–12 education and postsecondary education opportunities for students.

He also served as Senior Program Officer for the National Research Council and, as such, supported the Committee on Education Finance in the investigation of equity, adequacy, and productivity considerations in the financing of American K–12 public education. In addition, Finkelstein was Assistant Director of Policy Analysis for California Education and Research Associate at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education.

Consortia for Presidential Session

Jeanne M. Burns, Ph.D.

Associate Commissioner of Teacher and Leadership

Initiatives, Louisiana Board of Regents

Beverly L. Young, Ph.D. Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs

California State University System

Neal Finkelstein, Senior Research Scientist, WestEd


Consortia for Presidential Session

Paolo DeMaria joined Education First Consult-ing as a Principal in 2008. Paolo plays a lead-ership role in many of the firm’s college and career readiness and college completion en-gagements supporting clients like Complete College America and the Lumina Founda-tion. He is the Project Director for the 11 state

Core to College project; a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors funded by Lumina Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Prior to joining Education First Paolo held a number of positions in state government in Ohio including State Budget Director, Governor’s Chief Policy Advisor, Associ-ate Superintendent for School Options and Finance at the Ohio Department of Education, Executive Vice Chancellor at the Ohio Board of Regents, and Finance Director of the Ohio Senate. His expertise ranges from policy analysis and development, data analysis and reporting, strategic planning, budget development and implementation, and organizational management. Paolo received his undergrad-uate degree from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, and holds a Masters in Public Administration de-gree from the Ohio State University. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. James W. Pellegrino is Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Distin-guished Professor of Education at the Univer-sity of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as Co-director of UIC’s interdisciplinary Learning Sciences Research Institute. His research and development interests focus on children's and

adult's thinking and learning and the implications of cogni-tive research and theory for assessment and instructional practice. He has published over 270 books, chapters and articles in the areas of cognition, instruction and assess-ment. His current research is funded by the National Sci-ence Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences. He has served as head of several National Academy of Sciences study committees, including co-chair of the Com-mittee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, and

co-chair of the Committee on the Foundations of Assess-ment which issued the report Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assess-ment. Most recently he served as a member of the Commit-tee on Science Learning: Games, Simulations and Educa-tion and as chair of the Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills. He currently co-chairs the Committee on Developing Assessments of Science Profi-ciency in K-12. He is a past member of the Board on Test-ing and Assessment of the National Research Council and a lifetime member of the National Academy of Education. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Committees (TAC) of several states as well as the TACs of the SBAC, PARCC, DLM, and NCSC consortia of states funded under the USDOE Race to the Top assessment initiative.

Callie Riley currently serves as PARCC’s Senior Policy Associate for State Engagement and Outreach. In this role, she focuses on K-16 educator and state leader engagement strategies for the PARCC common assess-ment consortium. Her primary responsibilities include building partnerships with national and

local organizations that provide resources to educators to support the successful transition to the Common Core and PARCC assessment system, managing the outreach and engagement strategy for the PARCC Educator Leader Ca-dres (ELCs), a group of hundreds of core K-16 educators across the PARCC states, and leading the consortium’s digital communications and resource strategy. For the ELCs, she also oversees the development of in-person and virtual professional development resources and conven-ings. Before transitioning to PARCC, Callie managed the higher education outreach strategy for Achieve, and taught junior high school English in the Kuji City (Japan) public school system and middle school reading in Florida. Addi-tionally, she worked for the University of Maryland’s QUEST Honors Program. A Florida native, Callie holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies and Political Sci-ence from Wittenberg University and a master's in Educa-tional Leadership and Policy from the University of Mary-land, College Park.

Jim Pellegrino, Ph.D.

Co-Director, Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI)

Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Psychology &

Education, University of Illinois, Chicago

Paolo DeMaria

Director of Technical Assistance,

CORE to College Initiative Education First

Callie Riley

Senior Policy Associate, PARCC

Officers


Bonnie Swan is an expert in program evaluation and applied social research. She is the Director of Program Evaluation and Educational Research Group (PEER) and teaches program evaluation at the graduate level at the University of Central Florida, where she has served since 2003. Recent projects she has been engaged with were funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Florida and U.S. Departments of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Justice, and others. She earned her Ph.D. in Education and M.Ed. In Mathematics Education from UCF, and her undergraduate degree was in Business/Economics. Dr. Swan publishes and presents on topics related to educational research and evaluation. Her research interests in evaluation, mentoring, online learning, labor markets, educational equity, and professional development – as well as her experience teaching at the sec-ondary and post-secondary levels – give her a unique perspective as both an educational researcher and an eval-uation consultant. Dr. Swan serves in various leadership capacities. For 2013 this ranges from Past President for the Florida Educational Research Association (FERA), President Elect/VP for the National Association of Test Directors (NATD), and board member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA).

Zollie Stevenson, Jr., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies for the Ed.D. program at Howard University. He formerly served as the Director of Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs at the U.S. Department of Education in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Educa-tion where he provided program oversight for the NCLB state standards, assessment and accountability review and approval process. He also served as the manager for the Title I, Title III, State Assessment System and School Turnaround program grants. Dr. Stevenson has previously served as a Regional Testing Coordinator for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. He has also served as the Assessment Director for the Baltimore City (Maryland) Public Schools and as the research or evaluation director for Baltimore, the District of Columbia and the Charlotte Mecklenburg (North Carolina) Public School systems.

Trevor Mahlum is Dean of Educational Resources at Casper College, Casper, Wyoming. Educational Resources include all non-departmental academic supporting systems at the college (libraries and archives, as-sessment and testing, classroom media technology, online learning, and student programs like service learning, honors, international education, and learning communities. Before coming to this job Trevor Mahlum spent 15 years teaching and administering with the Natrona County Schools also in Casper. Trevor Mahlum’s research focus is in education accountability with a particular attention to how students transition from one level of school-ing to the next.

Dr. Antionette D. Stroter is an Assistant Professor at Liberty University and Director of Research Evaluation, and Assessment. Her responsibilities include teaching, advising, and mentoring doctoral students. She is also primarily responsible for overseeing and conducting various aspects of the research and evaluation of multiple projects. She has over ten years’ of experience administering assessment, evaluation, and research in k-12 and higher education. She has done extensive work in in the area of instruction, formative and summative assess-ments, evaluating programs curriculum development and lesson planning, differentiated instruction, competency-based learning/proficiency-based instruction project reporting, evaluating of division-wide assessment programs, facilitating data analysis, interpretation, and use at the division and school level, conducting and reporting on re-search and evaluation projects, managing division and school evaluation activities, evaluating school improvement planning, analyzing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data, supervising and assisting with data entry, assisting with evaluating research-based instructional programs/strategies, monitoring and reporting school com-pliance with state and federal accountability requirements, and conducting focus groups and research panel inter-views, preparing comprehensive evaluation and research reports and presents findings to appropriate individu-als or groups. She has worked for organizations such SRI International, the American Institute for Research (AIR), NASA, NSF, and the Department of Education.

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Jennifer McCreadie is currently a Senior Research Scientist and Director of Evaluation at The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education (GW-CEEE). She headed the research, evaluation, and assessment units for the Madison, Wisconsin, and Indianapolis public school districts for twenty years. Since moving to Virginia, Jennifer has continued to follow national and state trends in assessment and ac-countability as she has conducted a range of program evaluations for school districts and universities, provided support to SEAs, guided policies for assessing and accommodating English language learners, encouraged use of assessment data for instructional decisions, and participated in peer review. She has also taught graduate cours-es in research and evaluation methods at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Syracuse Univer-sity.

Officers (cont.)


Faith Connolly (Ph.D. in Public Policy, University of Maryland) joined BERC as Executive Director in August, 2010, to lead strategic development of expanding the consortium by establishing a lead role in communication raising funds, managing research teams and partnerships, and working with our Executive Committee and Ad-visory Committee to shape BERC’s future research agendas and priorities. Faith earned her undergraduate de-gree from Harvard University, master’s degrees from the University of Hartford and the Johns Hopkins Univer-sity, and doctorate in public policy from the University of Maryland. Her past professional experiences include be-ing a dropout prevention mathematics teacher, assistant to the chief of accountability for Baltimore City Public Schools (2001-2004), director of accountability for Montgomery County Public Schools (2004-2007), and has served as the vice-president of the American Education Research Association Division H, Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools, as well as held leadership roles in the Directors of Research and Evalua-tion and National Association of Test Directors.

I have been involved in education and assessment for almost 40 years. I began in as a teacher in the Baltimore County Schools and 15 years ago, I returned to the school district setting as the Director of Research and Evaluation the Shaker Heights City School District in Ohio. In between, I have been an examiner and administra-tor at the Educational Testing Service, a researcher as an independent professional and for an adolescent mental health facility and school, and an administrator and faculty member in education at The University of Akron, Cleve-land State University and John Carroll University. My teaching and research have focused on various aspects of assessment. Wherever I have been and whatever I have been doing, I have enjoyed my work and have drawn on all of my previous experiences in each new role. I have been active in many professional associations and my involvement in NATD is important in keeping me up to date and connected with others who, like I, manage testing

programs. Dale Whittington

Elvia Noriega is the Executive Director of Accountability and Continuous Improvement for the Richardson Inde-pendent School District. Elvia currently serves as a board member for the Texas Assessment Association (TAA) and as the Data Council Chair for the Dallas County Commit! Partnership. She also serves as a member of the Texas Accountability Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) which is tasked with making recommendations for the Texas Accountability system for 2013 and beyond. Elvia was born in Lubbock, Texas and graduated as Valedicto-rian from Estacado High School in 1991. She attended Texas Tech University where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (1995) and her Master’s degree in Statistics (1997). She moved to Dallas in June of 1997 and worked as an Evaluation Specialist for Dallas Independent School District. In August of 1999 Elvia went to work for Richardson ISD as an Assessment Analyst and began teaching developmental math courses at Richland Community Collage as an adjunct faculty member. In 2002, she became the Director of Data Analysis and Re-porting for RISD until May of 2007 when she began serving in her current position. She continued teaching at Richland College until 2004 when she began her family. Elvia and her husband, Alex, have three children, An-drew, Mark, and Nia, who all attend Texas public schools. She is passionate about education and the future it has to offer.

Dr. Raymond C. Hart is currently the Director of Research for the Council of the Great City Schools, and he has more than 20 years of experience in research and evaluation. His work has spanned policy areas such as post-secondary success and college readiness, professional learning communities and school improvement, teacher effectiveness and value-added analysis, early childhood education, and adult and workforce literacy. He has worked with clients from a number of federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. De-partment of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of State, the National Science Foundation, and many state and local departments of education. Dr. Hart recently lead the Analytic Technical Support Task for the Regional Educational Laboratory – Mid Atlantic. He served as the Executive Director of Research, Planning and Accountability for the Atlanta Public School District, President and CEO of RS Hart and Partners, which is an evaluation and assessment consulting firm, and an Assistant Professor of Research, Measurement, and Statistics at Georgia State University. Prior to his work as a consultant, he served as the Director of the Bureau of Research Training and Services at Kent State University. His career began in 1989 as a program director for African Ameri-can, Hispanic, and Native American students in Engineering and Science

Dr. Hart holds a Ph.D. in Evaluation and Measurement from Kent State University, a M.Ed. with a focus on Curric-ulum and Instruction – Educational Research from Cleveland State University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Indus-trial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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2014 NATD AWARDS NOMINEES


Nominated for Service to NATD and Test Directors

Sherry Rose-Bond

Sherry Rose-Bond has served as the Executive Director of Accountability and Testing, Columbus City Schools in Ohio. She has also served as the Assessment Director for the Community College of Philadelphia.

She has taken it upon herself to serve as a resource for other test directors in Ohio for information about how to do our jobs in light of all the changes we have experienced since accountability took hold. Of critical importance is that she started the Ohio Test Directors’ Alliance, a group of test directors from all the major Oho cities, plus some smaller districts (like mine). This group has met at least 3 times a year in Columbus for several years to share what we know about testing and how we have managed key problems related to testing in our state. At these meetings, Sherry always took some time to permit sharing of infor-mation about testing that came from broader sources rang-ing from NCME to the New York Times, to the Columbus Dispatch. She has been pivotal in forming guidance around setting up and maintaining test security. The Ohio Test Directors’ Alliance became enough of a force, that the group develops questions for the Ohio Department of Edu-cation and the department’s periodic state testing advisory meetings.

A long-time member of NATD, Sherry has served NATD as President and Treasurer. Currently with NATD she serves as the Chair of Membership Outreach and is also a mem-ber of the Constitution Review Committee and the Website Committee. She has also served on the Board of Director of the National Council on Measurement in Education. She was the first member of the NCME board to represent our constituency. In organization heavily dominated by aca-demics and test company folks, she has been the first per-son to have the specific role of making our test director voices heard.

Nominated for Exemplary Contributions to the Field of

Assessment

Laura McGiffert Slover, Chief Executive Officer, PARCC

Consortium

Leads the work of the consortium by working with edu-cators and policymakers from each of PARCC’s states to bring the new computer-based tests to schools for field testing this spring and operational use in the 2014-15 school year.

Responsible for overall management of PARCC, Inc.

Prior to becoming CEO, Laura served as the senior

vice president at Achieve, a bipartisan education re-form organization, which has been serving as the pro-ject manager for PARCC since 2010. Since she joined Achieve in 1998, she has worked in various roles to support states. From 2009-10, Laura led Achieve’s efforts to support the development of the Common Core State Standards and has been leading it PARCC project management team since 2010. Laura began her career in education as an English teacher and bas-ketball coach at Battle Mountain High School in Vail, Colorado, and an English instructor at Colorado Moun-tain College. She has earned degrees from Harvard (Bachelors) and Georgetown (Masters).

Joe Willhoft, Executive Director, SMARTER Balanced

Consortium

Prior to joining Smarter Balanced, he was assistant super-intendent for assessment and student information for Washington State for six years. Willhoft is past president of the Maryland Assessment Group and the Washington Edu-cational Research Association, and was a founding mem-ber of the AERA Special Interest Group for Classroom-Based Assessment. He has been involved in several col-laborative data and assessment efforts, including the Tech-nical Work Group for a congressionally-mandated evalua-tion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and as chair of the NAEP Policy Task Force for the National Assessment Governing Board, a collaborative effort co-sponsored by the Board and the Council of Chief State School Officers. Willhoft has served on the Technical Advisory Committee for several states. Willhoft has a doc-torate in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Maryland. He also has a master’s degree in Special Education, and has taught at all grade levels from kindergarten to graduate school.

2014 Ballot Results

Welcome!

Zollie Stevenson Jr. as President Elect,

Elvia Noriega as Secretary

Kyndra Middleton as a Board of Director (formerly member at large)

President

Dr. Toni Stroter Director of Research & Evaluation, Liberty University Lynchburg, Virginia 24502 Phone: (434) 582-2000 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Member-at-Large

Dr. Raymond C. Hart Director of Research Council of the Great City Schools 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Suite 702 Washington, D.C. 20004 Phone: 202-393-2427 x206 | Fax: 202-393-2400 E-MAIL: [email protected] | http:// www.cgcs.org

Vice Present /

President-Elect

Dr. Bonnie Swan Director Program Evaluation and Educational Research Group (PEER) University of Central Florida | TA403 Orlando, FL 32816-1250 Phone: 407-823-1351 | Fax: 407-823-1296 E-MAIL: [email protected] | http://education.ucf.edu/peer/

Member-at-Large

Dr. Faith Connelly Executive Director Baltimore Education Research Consortium Johns Hopkins University 2701 N Charles St, Suite 300 Baltimore MD 21218 Phone: (410) 516-4044 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Immediate Past

President

Trevor Mahlum Dean, Educational Resources Casper College 125 College Drive Casper, Wyoming 82601 Phone: (307) 268-2133 Fax: (307) 268-2324 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Member-at-Large

Elvia G. Noriega Executive Director Accountability & Continuous Improvement Richardson Independent School District 400 S. Greenville Ave. Richardson, Texas 75081 Phone: (469) 593-0539 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Secretary and Newsletter

Editor

Dr. Zollie Stevenson Jr. Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Howard University 806 Falls Lake Drive Mitchellville, MD 20721 Phone: (240) 463-4984 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Member-at-Large

Jennifer McCreadie Director of Evaluation, Senior Research Scientist Center for Equity and Excellence in Education The George Washington University 2100 M Street, NW, Suite 201 Washington, DC 20037 Phone: 703-528-3588, x38 E-MAIL: [email protected]; [email protected]

Treasurer

Dr. Dale Whittington Director of Research and Evaluation Shaker Heights City Schools 15600 Parkland Shaker Heights OH 44120 Phone: (216) 295-4340 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Graduate

Student Board Representative

Sarah D. Newton, M.S. Doctoral Student, Research Assistant Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment,

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