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Sunday, March 7: Introduction to conference themes and goals | |||
1:30-2:00 | Opening session | A Private Universe (54-sec. clip)Welcome, overview and purposes of workshop |
David
Eisenbud, MSRI Director Deborah Ball |
2:00-4:00 |
Session 1: Plenary
panel Moderator: Deborah Ball
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Crucial contemporary social, political, and cultural issues in mathematics assessment in the U.S. |
Robert Moses
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4:00-4:30 | Tea |
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4:30-6:00 |
Session 2: Whole
group workshop Moderator: Hyman Bass |
What is
mathematical proficiency? Multiple perspectives Videotapes of UM students being interviewed: (1) pre-K student counting; (2) proof (individually); (3) class discussion involving proof |
Hyman Bass Jim Milgram Alan Schoenfeld |
6:00-6:30 | Session 3: Overview of interview session for Monday morning |
Discuss purposes Review interview protocol draft, solicit suggestions for changes |
Deborah Ball Roger Howe |
6:30-8:00 | Buffet dinner at MSRI |
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8:00-9:00 |
Session 4: Evening speaker Moderator: David Eisenbud |
Talk: Mathematics and Science Education: Parallel National Challenges | Bruce Alberts |
Monday, March 8: What is important to measure? | |||
8:00-8:30 | Coffee/Pastries |
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8:30-8:45 | Overview of day #2 | Deborah Ball and Alan Schoenfeld |
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8:45-10:00 |
Session 5: Plenary activity Moderator: Deborah Ball |
Live interview session (with sixth grade student) | Deborah Ball |
10:00-10:30 | Tea |
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10:30-12:15 |
Session 6: Small group
discussions and plenary discussion 6a: Small group breakouts,
with moderators 6b Plenary discussion Moderator: Deborah Ball |
Discuss and analyze the interview with student; report back in plenary; commentators |
Tim Boerst Roger Howe |
12:15-1:30 | Lunch (at MSRI) |
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1:30-3:30 |
Session 7: Plenary panel Moderator: Alan Schoenfeld |
What mathematical proficiency is important to measure? (content, skills, and practices, broadly defined) |
Dick Askey Hugh Burkhardt Linda Fisher Jan de Lange Bernie Madison |
3:30-4:00 | Tea |
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4:00-5:30 |
Session 8: Assessment in
algebra Moderator: Hyman Bass |
Investigation of alternative approaches to assessment of different aspects of proficiency in algebra |
Heidi Boley David Foster William McCallum Mark Saul Ann Shannon Hung-Hsi Wu |
5:30-5:45 | Reflections on day, comment cards |
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Dinner on own |
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Tuesday, March 9: How can mathematical proficiency be measured: Approaches and challenges to good assessment |
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8:00-8:30 | Coffee/Pastries |
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8:30-8:35 | Overview of day #3 |
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8:35-9:20 |
Session 9: Plenary presentation Moderator: Alan Schoenfeld |
The New York State Regents examination: An analysis and response |
Alan Tucker Finbarr Sloane (discussant) |
9:25-10:40 |
Session 10:
Plenary panel Moderator: Deborah Ball |
Specific instruments and approaches for assessing mathematical proficiency: Plenary panel of workshop leaders |
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Michèle
Artigue |
10:40-11:10 | Tea |
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11:10-11:55 |
Session 10a: Small group workshops (7) (first session) |
Explorations of
specific tools or instruments What does each tap well? What does it miss? Workshops |
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Michèle
Artigue |
12:00-1:15 |
Session 11: Lunch (at MSRI)
Moderator: Deborah Ball |
Talk: Observations midway in
the conference (12:40-1:10)
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1:15-2:05 |
Session 10b Small group workshops (7) (second session) |
Repeat of Session 10a |
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Michèle
Artigue |
2:05-3:45 |
Session 12: Plenary panel Moderator: Alan Schoenfeld |
Issues of reliability and validity at any scale, or with any type of assessment |
Ross Green Betsy Taleporos Mark Wilson
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3:45-4:15 | Tea |
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4:15-5:45 |
Session 13: Plenary panel followed by
small group discussion Moderator: Alan Schoenfeld |
Challenges of making assessments equitable and fair: Issues of culture, language, context and experience | |
5:45-6:00 | Reflections on day, comment cards |
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Dinner on own |
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Wednesday, March 10: Using assessment information to improve instruction | |||
8:00-8:30 | Coffee/Pastries | ||
8:30-8:45 | Overview of day #4 | Hyman Bass |
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8:45-10:15 |
Session 14:
Plenary panel Moderator: Jim Lewis |
How can large-scale state assessment programs affect educational programs? |
Heidi Boley |
10:15-10:45 | Tea |
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10:45-12:15 |
Session 15: Plenary panel Moderators: Hugo Rossi and Bob Megginson |
Closing session: Perspectives on the workshop and next steps in an agenda related to assessment |
Michèle Artigue |
12:15-1:30 |
Lunch (optional) Official conference end: 12 noon. |
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Wednesday, March 10: Special Post-Workshop Session | |||
1:30-3:30 | Special Post-Workshop Session | Children Left Behind: New Curricula, Large Scale Assessment and the Algebra Project |
Robert Moses and colleagues from The Algebra
Project, Inc.: Gary Benenson Greg Budzban Marian Currell Frank Davis Ben Moynihan Peggy Quinn Denina Porter Alan Shaw Mary Maxwell West |
Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences (Session 4)
Michèle Artigue, Professor, Université de Paris VII (Sessions 10, 10a, 10b, 15)
Richard Askey, Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin (Sessions 7, 10, 10a, 10b)
Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Professor, University of Michigan (Opening session, Overviews of days #2 and 3, Sessions 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11)
Hyman Bass, Professor, University of Michigan (Overview of day #4, Sessions 2, 8)
Timothy A. Boerst, South Redford Public Schools, Michigan; Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics, University of Michigan (Sessions 1, 6)
Heidi Boley, Berkeley Unified School District (Sessions 8, 14, 15)
Hugh Burkhardt, Mathematics Assessment Resource Service, University of Nottingham (Sessions 7, 10, 10a, 10b)
Michael Cohen, Director, ACHIEVE (Session 14)
Phil Daro, Tools Project, University of California, Berkeley (Session 13)
David Eisenbud, Director, MSRI (Opening session, Session 4)
Lily Wong Fillmore, Professor, University of California at Berkeley (Session 13)
Linda Fisher, Director, Mathematics Assessment Collaborative (Sessions 7, 10, 10a, 10b)
David Foster, Program Director of Mathematics, Noyce Foundation (Sessions 8, 10, 10a, 10b)
Ross Green, CTB McGraw Hill (Session 12)
Roger Howe, Yale University (Sessions 3, 6)
Jan de Lange, Director, Freudenthal Institute, University of Utrecht (Session 7) (Sessions 10, 10a, 10b)
Jim Lewis, Professor of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Sessions 1, 14)
Bernie Madison, Professor, University of Arkansas (Sessions 7, 10, 10a, 10b)
William McCallum, Professor of Mathematics, University of Arizona (Sessions 8, 15)
Bob Megginson, Deputy Director, MSRI (Session 15)
Jim Milgram, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University (Session 2)
Judit Moschkovich, Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz (Session 13)
Robert Moses, Founder and President, the Algebra Project, Inc. (Sessions 1, 15, Special post-conference Session)
Judith Ramaley, Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources Directorate, National Science Foundation (Session 1)
Hugo Rossi, Deputy Director, MSRI (Session 15)
Mark Saul, Program Manager, Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education, National Science Foundation
Alan H. Schoenfeld, Professor, University of California at Berkeley (Overviews of days #2 and #3, Sessions 1, 2, 7, 9, 12, 13)
Susan Sclafani, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Department of Education (Session 1)
Ann Shannon, Consultant, Oakland, CA (Sessions 8, 10, 10a, 10b)
Lee Shulman, President, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Session 11)
Finbarr C. Sloane, Program Director, Directorate for Education & Human Resources, Division of Research, Evaluation & Communication, National Science Foundation (Session 9)
Elizabeth Stage, Director, Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California (Sessions 14, 15)
Betsy Taleporos, Senior Director of English Language Arts Testing Services, Harcourt Assessment, Inc., San Antonio, TX (Sessions 12, 14)
Uri Treisman, Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas–Austin, Director, C. A. Dana Center (Session 14)
Alan Tucker, Professor of Mathematics, State University of New York at Stony Brook (Session 9)
Mark Wilson, Professor, University of Chicago (Session 12)
Hung-Hsi Wu, Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley (Session 8)