CRESST Co-Director Emerita Joan Herman will present at this year’s AERA annual meeting on a variety of assessment and evaluation topics. These include teachers’ formative assessment practices in mathematics, school-level factors that predict academic achievement among magnet schools, and a teacher training program that supports content area teachers to integrate high quality writing tasks in their lessons. In addition, she will be teaching a workshop on measurement quality in research, highlighting standards for measurement validity and fairness.

Examining Dreams and Considering Possibilities:
Reflections on a Formative Assessment Intervention Study
Authors: Joan Herman, Christine Ong
Room: New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Astor Ballroom
Tues, April 17th, 8:15 to 9:45am

Literacy Design Collaborative: A Promising Approach for Building
Teacher Capacity to Implement College- and Career-Ready Standards
Authors: Scott Epstein, Jia Wang, Joan Herman, Julie Haubner, Seth Leon
Room: New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 2
Tues, April 17th, 10:35am to 12:05pm

School-Level Implementation Factors Predict Student
Academic Outcomes in 24 Federally Funded Magnet Schools
Authors: Jia Wang, Joan Herman, Julie Haubner
Room: New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Rendezvous Trianon
Mon, April 16th, 4:05 to 5:35pm

PDC20: Improving the Quality of Research Measures: Lessons from the
Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing Workshop
Instructors: Joan Herman, Linda L. Cook, Frank Worrell
Date: Saturday, April 14, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Fee: $65.00
Location: TBD

Click here for full CRESST schedule at AERA and NCME.