February 19-22, 2004
The Spencer Foundation Meeting
The Idea of Testing: Expanding the Foundations of Educational Assessment
Thursday, February 19
Jordan's Restaurant
6:00 p.m. Dinner
This is an informal opportunity for us to renew acquaintances.
Friday, February 20
Monterey Room
7:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Welcome: Lauren Jones Young, The Spencer Foundation
Overview of goals and agenda for meeting: Pamela Moss
The next few sessions focus on review of the documents in the briefing book. Here are some general questions to spark discussion of each text: What material from this text needs to be incorporated in our treatments of assessment and OTL, i.e., the book and/or the article-length manuscript? Are there ways these materials could be elaborated productively? Do they need to be balanced with alternative or competing views? What might you contribute to these ideas? How might you frame the ideas differently? What seems to be missing from the text? What challenges might you raise to the ideas presented? Would you be interested in authoring or co-authoring parts of these collective efforts?
8:15 a.m. Document Review: The Idea of an "Opportunity to Learn": Historical and
Methodological Perspectives on Policy Challenges and Research
Inquiries (Pullin & Haertel, Tab 5) Chair: Jim Gee
9:45 p.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Document Review: A Situative Perspective: Broadening the Foundations
of Assessment (Haertel &Greeno, Tab 6) Chair: Jim Gee
11:30 a.m. Summary Session
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Document Review: Argument Substance and Argument Structure in
Educational Assessment (Mislevy, Tab 4) Note: BobMislevy will join the
discussion via telephone, Chair: Ed Haertel
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Summary Session: What does all this mean for the book?
Chair: Ed Haertel
4:30 p.m. Document Review (time permitting): ASociocultural Perspective on
Opportunity to Learn (Gee, Tab 3) Chair: Pamela Moss
5:30 p.m. Adjourn
6:15 p.m. Depart for dinner
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Saturday, February 21
Monterey Room
7:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Continue the discussion of Jim Gee's document
Chair: Pamela Moss
9:00 a.m. Summary session: What does all this mean for the book?
Chair: Pamela Moss
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Conceptual Framing for the Book
Chair: Diana Pullin
The goal of this session is to look across the texts we have reviewed, along with our original manuscript outline and web document, to make explicit the conceptual framework they represent, and to consider what might be missing from this framework. In other words, we anticipate an iteration between the parts we already have, the whole we envision, and the parts we need to flesh out that envisioned whole.
11:30 a.m. Summary Session
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Structural Framing for the Book, including chapter outlines
Chair: Diana Pullin
We'll begin this session by asking each of us to indicate what we want to (and will) contribute to the book and article manuscripts (alone or in collaboration). We will use these statements and the earlier discussions to construct an outline of the book. We will also consider who else we might invite to contribute chapters to flesh out the outline.
4:30 p.m. Summary Session
Chair: Ed Haertel
5:30 p.m. Adjourn
6:15 p.m. Depart for dinner
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Sunday, February 22
Monterey Room
7:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Next Steps
Chair: Pamela Moss
10:00 a.m. Adjourn (box lunches available)