Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Park Hyatt Washington DC
1201 24th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Description: This panel will include presentations on three different RPPs that worked with state and local education agencies to build their capacity around using data from kindergarten entry assessments. The first presentation is about an RPP that worked with stakeholders in Alaska to contextualize their decision-making by providing information about what is happening nationally. The second presentation is about an RPP in Illinois that is working with stakeholders to plan for appropriate uses of data in its first year of mandating statewide assessment. Finally, the third presentation is from an RPP that took place in Pennsylvania and highlights strategies used for communicating complex information on psychometric properties of data to stakeholders.
Partnership or Research Alliance: Midwest Early Childhood Education Research Alliance
Audience: The target audience for this presentation includes education researchers and technical assistance providers.
Speakers:
- Jill Bowdon, Ph.D., Researcher, American Institutes for Research
- Ashley Pierson, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Education Northwest
- Katie Dahlke, Ph.D., Principal Researcher, American Institutes for Research
Organization
Regional Educational Laboratory Program