APPENDIX
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Workshop Participants
Workshop on Performance Assessments for Adult Education: Exploring the Measurement Issues
December 12-13, 2001
COMMITTEE ON ALTERNATIVES FOR ASSESSING ADULT EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROGRAMS
Robert J. Mislevy (Chair), Professor, Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, University of Maryland at College Park
Judith A. Alamprese, Principal Associate, Abt Associates Inc.
Lyle F. Bachman, Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL, University of California at Los Angeles
Robert Bickerton, Director, Adult and Community Learning Services, Massachusetts Department of Education
John P. Comings, Senior Research Associate Lecturer on Education and Director of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Susan K. Cowles, Instructor, Linn-Benton Community College, Corvallis, Oregon
Neal Schmitt, Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
Catherine E. Snow, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Presenters
Henry Braun, Distinguished Presidential Appointee and Managing Director of Literacy Services, Educational Testing Service
Leah A. Bricker, Senior Program Associate with Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Eduardo Cascallar, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research
R. Michael Dean, Staff Member in the Division of Adult Education and Literacy at the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education
Stephen B. Dunbar, Professor of Educational Measurement and Statistics, College of Education, University of Iowa
Ronald K. Hambleton, Distinguished University Professor, Center for Educational Assessment, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Richard K. Hill, Founder and Executive Director, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc.
James Impara, Director, Buros Institute of Assessment Consultation and Outreach
Marcia Invernizzi, Professor of Reading, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Cheryl Keenan, Director of Adult Education, State of Pennsylvania Myrna Manley, Retired Teacher and Author, El Camino College
Joanne Meier, Assistant Professor, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Donna Miller-Parker, Director of Essential Skills Programs, Shoreline Community College, Seattle, Washington
Mark Moody, Assistant Superintendent for Planning, Results, and Information Management, Maryland Department of Education
Pamela A. Moss, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan
Mari Pearlman, Vice President, Division of Teaching and Learning, Educational Testing Service
Barbara S. Plake, W.C. Meierhenry Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Oscar and Luella Buros Center for Testing, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Mark D. Reckase, Professor of Measurement and Quantitative Methods, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University
Stephen G. Sireci, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Sondra Stein, Senior Research Associate, National Institute for Literacy
David Thissen, Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fran Tracy-Mumford, State Supervisor for Adult and Community Education, Delaware Department of Public Instruction
Katherine (Kit) A. Viator, Administrator for Student Testing, Massachusetts Department of Education
Wendy M. Yen, Vice President of Research at K-12 Works, Educational Testing Service
Guests
Sandra Baxter, National Institute for Literacy
Brenda Bell, Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee Martha Berlin, Westat
Sue Bowers, U.S. Department of Education
Osa Brand, Association of American Geographers
Joyce Campbell, U.S. Department of Education
Alicia Cascallar, Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy
Larry Condelli, American Institutes for Research Anna Critz, ACT, Inc.
Carol D’Amico, U.S. Department of Education
Denise Daniels, District of Columbia Public Schools
Daria Ellis, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Penelope Engel, Educational Testing Service
Michael Fong, U.S. Department of Education
Carol Fuller, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Brenda Gagne, Maine Department of Education
Elaine Gilby, U.S. Department of Education
Marilyn Gillespie, SRI International
Lynda Ginsburg, National Center on Adult Literacy, University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Goodwin, Maine Department of Education
Sharon Healy, Maryland Department of Education
Eugene Johnson, American Institutes for Research
Michael Jones, U.S. Department of Education
Dorry Kenyon, Center for Applied Linguistics
Andrew Kolstad, U.S. Department of Education
Kristen Kulongoski, Oregon Department of Community Colleges
Mark Kutner, American Institutes for Research
Mariann Lemke, U.S. Department of Education
Mohammed Louguit, Center for Applied Linguistics
Mary Lovell, U.S. Department of Education
Christopher Mazzeo, National Governors Association
Peggy McGuire, National Institute for Literacy
Lennox McLendon, National Adult Education/Professional Development Consortium
Rebecca Moak, U.S. Department of Education
Leyla Mohadjer, Westat
Pat Montalvan, Westat
Sarah Newcomb, U.S. Department of Education
James Parker, U.S. Department of Education
Robert Pasternack, U.S. Department of Education
Kathleen Petrek, National Institute for Literacy
Loretta Petty, U.S. Department of Education
Ron Pugsley, U.S. Department of Education
Sen Qi, American Council on Education
Lynn Reese, Center on Education and Training for Employment, Ohio State University
Laura Roach, Oregon Department of Community Colleges
John Sabatini, National Center on Adult Literacy, University of Pennsylvania
Tanya Shuy, National Institutes of Health
Stephanie Stauffer, Center for Applied Linguistics
Shirley Steele, U.S. Department of Education
Regie Stites, SRI International
Carol Van Duzer, National Center for ESL Literacy Education
Nicole Vartanian, U.S. Department of Education
Sheida White, U.S. Department of Education
Jean Yan, Westat
Cindy Zengler, Ohio Department of Education
NRC Staff
Pasquale DeVito, Director, Board on Testing and Assessment
Michael Feuer, Director, Center for Education
Kaeli Knowles, Board on Testing and Assessment
Judith Koenig, Board on Testing and Assessment
Patricia Morison, Center for Education
Nevzer Stacey, Center for Education
Andrew Tompkins, Board on Testing and Assessment