AERA
2010 Annual Meeting
Friday, April 30 – Tuesday, May 4
Denver, Colorado
The submissions deadline is approaching: July 15th, 2009.
5/4/09
Division H - International Comittee Invited Session
Division H - Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools
International Committee --- invited session
Title:
International Perspectives: The Impact of Assessment on School Curriculum, Classroom Teaching, and Student Learning
Session Participants:
A Decade of Evolution of Assessment Policy and Practice in Irish Education
*Eugene Wall (Mary Immaculate College - Ireland)
School-Based Assessment Reform in Hong Kong on English Language Education: The Impact on Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
*Christine Davison (University NSW, Sydney, Australia)
How the United States Is Narrowing Curriculum and Creating the Possibility of Economic Suicide
*David C. Berliner (Arizona State University - USA)
Chair & Session organizer: Zsuzsanna R. Szabo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY)
Chair: James G. Deegan (Mary Immaculate College - Ireland)
Discussant: Michael J. Flicek (Natrona County School District - WY)
Abstract:
Large scale assessments are used around the world for a variety of purposes including sorting and selecting students, school accountability, and to inform school improvement efforts. These large scale assessments typically have one primary purpose but they are often used to serve more than one purpose. The papers presented in this session will address the issue of the intended and unintended impacts of large scale assessments on school curriculum, classroom teaching, and student learning from the perspectives of educational scholars in a European country, Asia, and the United States. The papers will consider the positive and negative, intended and unintended impacts associated with varying purposes of the assessments in the different international contexts on curriculum, classroom teaching, and student learning.
Perspective from Ireland-- Prof. Eugene Wall
Dr Eugene Wall is Vice-President Academic Affairs in Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick) where he also teaches classes in educational psychology and educational policy. He was a member of the Council of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment for 21 years and was a member of the NCCA committee which had responsibility for overseeing the development of the current Irish primary school curriculum. He also chaired the Council’s advisory group on assessment in primary schools. He is author of the MICRA-T and SIGMA-T, the two most widely used standardized achievement tests in Ireland. He is a former president of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, having served in that role for three years.
Perspective from Asia -- Prof. Christine Davison
Chris Davison is Professor of Education and Head of School, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong where she worked for nine years, most recently as Associate Dean (Research). She has had many years' experience as an English language teacher and teacher educator in primary, post-primary and adult settings in the Asian-Pacific area. She has researched and published extensively on the interface between English as a mother tongue and ESL development, integrating language and content curriculum, and English language assessment. Her latest books include a two volume handbook of teaching English internationally (Springer, with Jim Cummins) and a co-authored book on English language teaching innovation in China (HKU Press, with Xinmin Zheng). With colleagues at the University of Hong Kong, she has been developing and researching a range of oral school-based assessment initiatives for the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority and the Hong Kong Education Bureau, and has also been working with the Ministry of Education, Singapore, on integrating assessment for learning into their new English language syllabus.
The U.S.A. perspective -- Professor David Berliner
DAVID C. BERLINER is Regents’ Professor of Education at Arizona State University and on the summer faculty of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He has also taught at the Universities of Arizona and Massachusetts, at Teachers College and Stanford University, and at universities in Australia, The Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and Switzerland. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, and a past president of both the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA).
He is the winner of numerous awards, most notably the Brock award and the AERA award for distinguished contributions to education, the E. L. Thorndike award from the APA for lifetime achievements, and the NEA “Friend of Education” award for his work on behalf of the education profession.
He is co-author (with B. J. Biddle) of the best seller The manufactured crisis, co-author (with Ursula Casanova) of Putting research to work, and co-author (with N. L. Gage) of the textbook Educational psychology, now in its 6th edition. He is co-editor of the first Handbook of educational psychology and the books Talks to teachers, and Perspectives on instructional time. His newest co-authored book, with Sharon Nichols, is Collateral damage: How high-stakes testing corrupts American education. Professor Berliner has authored more than 200 published articles, technical reports, and book chapters.
Mike Flicek -- Session Discussant
Michael Flicek is the director of assessment and research for Natrona County Schools in Casper, Wyoming. He has spent his entire career in applied settings, mostly public schools, first as a psychologist, and lately as an educational researcher. For an applied practitioner, he is a bit unusual in that he has published research on child psychopathology in refereed journals, served as a peer reviewer in educational research journals, and has regularly presented at national meetings in these fields. He presently enjoys serving, along with David Berliner, Jim Popham, and others, on the Wyoming Technical Advisory Committee for Wyoming’s state assessment. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA), a not-for-profit testing company. He has served as the program chair for Division H of AERA and was last year’s recipient of the outstanding discussant award from Division H.
4/26/09
AERA 2009
Sponsor:
Division H-Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Wed, Apr 15 - 8:15am - 9:45am
Building/Room: Omni San Diego / Salon E
Title:
International Perspectives: The Impact of Assessment on School Curriculum, Classroom Teaching, and Student Learning
Session Participants:
A Decade of Evolution of Assessment Policy and Practice in Irish Education
*Eugene Wall (Mary Immaculate College - Ireland)
School-Based Assessment Reform in Hong Kong on English Language Education: The Impact on Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
*Christine Davison (Australia)
How the United States Is Narrowing Curriculum and Creating the Possibility of Economic Suicide
*David C. Berliner (Arizona State University - USA)
Chair: Zsuzsanna R. Szabo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Chair: James G. Deegan (Mary Immaculate College)
Discussant: Michael J. Flicek (Natrona County School District - WY)
Abstract:
Large scale assessments are used around the world for a variety of purposes including sorting and selecting students, school accountability, and to inform school improvement efforts. These large scale assessments typically have one primary purpose but they are often used to serve more than one purpose. The papers presented in this session will address the issue of the intended and unintended impacts of large scale assessments on school curriculum, classroom teaching, and student learning from the perspectives of educational scholars in a European country, Asia, and the United States. The papers will consider the positive and negative, intended and unintended impacts associated with varying purposes of the assessments in the different international contexts on curriculum, classroom teaching, and student learning.
Division H-Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Wed, Apr 15 - 8:15am - 9:45am
Building/Room: Omni San Diego / Salon E
Title:
International Perspectives: The Impact of Assessment on School Curriculum, Classroom Teaching, and Student Learning
Session Participants:
A Decade of Evolution of Assessment Policy and Practice in Irish Education
*Eugene Wall (Mary Immaculate College - Ireland)
School-Based Assessment Reform in Hong Kong on English Language Education: The Impact on Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
*Christine Davison (Australia)
How the United States Is Narrowing Curriculum and Creating the Possibility of Economic Suicide
*David C. Berliner (Arizona State University - USA)
Chair: Zsuzsanna R. Szabo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Chair: James G. Deegan (Mary Immaculate College)
Discussant: Michael J. Flicek (Natrona County School District - WY)
Abstract:
Large scale assessments are used around the world for a variety of purposes including sorting and selecting students, school accountability, and to inform school improvement efforts. These large scale assessments typically have one primary purpose but they are often used to serve more than one purpose. The papers presented in this session will address the issue of the intended and unintended impacts of large scale assessments on school curriculum, classroom teaching, and student learning from the perspectives of educational scholars in a European country, Asia, and the United States. The papers will consider the positive and negative, intended and unintended impacts associated with varying purposes of the assessments in the different international contexts on curriculum, classroom teaching, and student learning.
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