Webinars
The K–12 Center at ETS co-hosts about three webinars per year. These webinars bring together some of the best minds in the country to discuss recent developments in K–12 assessment as well as pressing measurement challenges that must be addressed and identify promising future approaches.
View our upcoming and past webinars below. Also see the K–12 Center research meetings.
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Past Webinars
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October 6, 2014Discussion with Assessment Consortia Leaders: Update on PARCC and Smarter BalancedThe K–12 Center and the Alliance for Excellent Education held their sixth webinar discussion with leaders for the Comprehensive Assessment Consortia — Laura Slover of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Jacqueline E. King of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) — where they shared learnings from their spring 2014 field tests and discussed upcoming activities. Click on the icon to the right to access the video. |
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November 18, 2013Discussion with Science Assessment and State Leaders About Next Generation Science AssessmentsThe K–12 Center and the Alliance for Excellent Education discuss the design options for next generation science assessment systems and the emerging plans of states with:
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August 2013Discussion with Assessment Consortia Leaders: Update on PARCC and Smarter BalancedThe K–12 Center and the Alliance for Excellent Education held their fifth webinar discussion on the topic of the progress of the Comprehensive Assessment Consortia. Laura Slover of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Joe Willhoft of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) share their recent and upcoming activities. Click on the icon to the right to access the video and slides. |
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October 2, 2012Discussion with Assessment Consortia Leaders: Assessment Item & Task PrototypesThe K–12 Center and the Alliance for Excellent Education held their fourth Webinar Discussion on the topic of assessment item and task prototypes with leaders of the Comprehensive Assessment Consortia – Laura Slover of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Susan Gendron of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced). Click on the icon to the right to access the video. |
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June 25, 2012Technology Enhanced Assessments: 2014–15 and BeyondThe Alliance for Excellent Education and K–12 Center held a talk with Sue Rigney of USED, Kathleen Scalise of the University of Oregon, and Juan D´Brot of the West Virginia Department of Education about opportunities to use technologies to improve assessment and support learning. Click on the icon to the right to access the video. |
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March 1, 2012Join Webinar Discussion with Assessment Consortia LeadersThe K–12 Center and the Alliance for Excellent Education held their third webinar discussion with leaders of the PARCC and SBAC Consortia about their ongoing work and recent progress. Some topics covered were:
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September 13, 2011Discussion with Assessment Consortia LeadersThe K–12 Center at ETS and The Alliance for Excellent Education met with leaders of the Consortia to discuss their on-going work. This session focused on the transition supports to be provided by each Consortium to assist states and districts as well as the proposed revisions to the PARCC design. Sue Gendron of Smarter Balanced and Laura Slover of PARCC also responded to questions submitted by participants.Click on the icons to the right for the video and accompanying powerPoint presentations. Download our updated guide to the Assessment Consortia to review Consortia-approved summaries of their work. |
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April 4, 2011Discussion with Assessment Consortia LeadersThe K–12 Center at ETS and The Alliance for Excellent Education co-hosted a webinar on April 4 to consider the designs of the two state consortia — Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) — and how these designs address the various purposes they are expected to serve. Sue Gendron of SBAC and Laura Slover of PARCC also responded to questions submitted by participants. (90 minutes) |
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March 10, 2011Through-Course Summative Assessments: Measurement Challenges, Choices, and Trade-Offs Within the Comprehensive Assessment Consortia DesignThe Center for K–12 Assessment & Performance Management at ETS (K–12 Center) and The Alliance for Excellent Education co-hosted a webinar on March 10 to discuss some of the most salient measurement challenges associated with the use of through-course summative assessments. Some of the nation's leading measurement experts discussed issues such as scaling, linking and reporting; aggregating results from through-course assessments; and interpretations of student growth over time. (90 minutes) |
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