Presentation Focuses on Race to the Top Assessment
A recent presentation by Ron Dietel focused on issues related to Race to the Top Assessment.
Click here for Dietel's presentation.
Other recent CRESST presentations are available here.
News
The latest news at CRESST
CRESST researchers publish well over 150 articles every year, primarily in distinguished peer-reviewed journals but also in more practice- or policy-focused publications such as Educational Leadership, Education Next, Phi Delta Kappan magazine, the American School Board Journal, and the National PTA's Our Children magazine. CRESST partners publish scholarly books and are regularly quoted for their expertise in America's newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, or Chicago Tribune. Our researchers serve as editors, co-editors, and reviewers for a number of national journals including the journal Educational Assessment.
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Baker and Herman Speak on 21st Century Skills at International Conference
CRESST Directors Eva Baker and Joan Herman recently spoke at the International Symposium of Organization for the Study of College Admissions hosted by the National Center for University Entrance Examinations.
Click here for more information about Japan's National Center for Unversity Entrance Examinations.
Click here for Eva Baker's presentation on measuring learning in a changing world.
Click here for Joan Herman's discussion of validity issues in moving ahead.
CRESST Research at Games Workshop
CRESST researchers Noelle Griffin and Richard Wainess recently participated in a major workshop examining the role of women in the game education industry.
Noelle Griffin presented on the role of gender in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) achievement, with considerations for computer games that support learning. Her presentation is available here.
CRESST Research Supports Military Readiness
Increasingly, CRESST research and development are helping to improve the readiness of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Learn more in this recent presentation by CRESST Senior Researcher Alan Koenig, Automated Assessment for Adaptive Learning of Complex Tasks.
Research about simulations and learning may also be found in CRESST report 780, Aligning Instruction and Assessment with Game and Simulation Design.
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Baker To Speak at Korea International Conference
Eva Baker, CRESST Director and President of the World Education Research Association, is an invited speaker at the October 26-28, 2011 International Conference on Education Research at Seoul National University.
For more information, visit the conference web site.
Baker to Keynote International Conference
CRESST Director Eva Baker will be a keynote speaker at this year's Taiwan Education Research Association International Conference (TERA), December 15-18, 2011 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
TERA, a founding association of the World Education Research Association (WERA), promotes academic exchanges in educational research and international collaboration among educational research communities.
Professor Baker is current WERA president and former president of the American Educational Research Association.
CRESST Research Shared at Human Factors Conference
Senior Researchers Greg Chung and Terry Vendlinski recently showcased CRESST technology applications for Pre-K through adult learners at the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society Meeting.
View their poster, Technology Applications to Advance Assessment and Evaluation Practice.
CRESST Research Presented at International Conference
Graduate Student Hamid Mousavi recently presented CRESST research at the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing.
Mousavi, Deirdre Kerr, and Markus Iseli developed a new text-mining framework and linguistic query language that improves computational performance and allows for simpler text-mining queries.
Click here to view their poster.
APA Convention Sneak Peak – Educational Psychology Research for Practice
CRESST's Rebecca Buschang will present a poster at the upcoming American Psychological Association Convention this August. Check it out now.
Purpose: This study explores the relationship between collaborative grouping and math and game outcomes in a video game setting.
When: August 5, 2011; 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Where: Washington, D.C
Room Description: Halls D and E
Room Location: Level Two
http://www.apa.org/convention/
Eva Baker to Keynote Education Symposium
CRESST Director Eva Baker will be the featured keynote speaker at the New Directions in Educational Reform Symposium on August 20, 2011. Her presentation will focus on blending learning and assessment, and will be followed by facilitated breakout sessions.
