NATD is maintaining our low dues rate of $20 for memberships for 2012. The annual dues notice was sent out to members in early January. If you did not get your notice, please contact Elizabeth to update your address and contact information holtzae@cps-k12.org. You may also pick up a copy of the membership form here on the NATD site and mail it with your 2012 payment.
Data Use in a World of Common Standards and Assessments: How can aligned, timely, and comparative student assessment data impact teacher practice and support student success? is being finalized for the April meeting. Enis Dogan from PARCC Assessment Research, Kim Schildikamp from University of Twente, NL, Arie van der Plog from AIR, Jeff Wayman from UT Austin, and Trevor Mahlum from Casper College have all confirmed. Details of time and place are soon to be posted with the NCME Program. Make you plans now to attend the NATD/NCME Symposium at the annual meeting in Vancouver, BC in April. Registration is now open on the AERA site. AERA.net
Happy Holidays from the NATD board and all the little elves.
We will soon have a NATD Newsletter to distribute with interesting articles and up-to-date information on the 2012 annual meeting. Be certain to let our Secretary and Newsletter Editor, Connie Zumpf, know if you have had a change. czumpf@cherrycreekschools.org
The NATD annual meeting is held in conjunction with the NCME and AERA annual meetings which are to be held in April in Vancouver, BC. AERA registration is now open. (AERA.net) Going to Canada and returning to the United States requires a valid current passport.
Using the Publications link from the left side of the page, you will be able to access the PowerPoint presented by Dr. Joe Willhoft during the 2011 NATD Breakfast Presentation during AERA. The presentation was titled An Overview of the Race-to-the-Top Assessment Consortia.
Using the Publications link from the left side of the page, you will be able to access the PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files along with a video recording of the 2011 NATD/NCME Joint Invited Symposium: Measuring Teacher Effectiveness in a Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation System: Fair, Accurate, and Legally Defensible?
The Winter 2011 NATD Newsletter has been published, providing detailed information about the activities of NATD and its related organizations at the upcoming meetings in New Orleans. To download the newsletter, click here
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans.
Jack Monpas-Huber, President, NATD
NATD played an active role in the development of prior versions of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA/NCME/APA). Members now have an opportunity to comment on the revision of the standards through April 20, 2011. Take a look and consider making a contribution through your comments at http://teststandards.org/
A new edition of the Program Evaluation Stnadards was published this fall. The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation now plans to add a Wiki site where individuals may post reviews of the standards and comment on how they have been able to apply the standards or make suggesitons for other education evaluators. For more information on ordering the new Program Standards and the Joint Committee plans, visit the web site.
Letters were mailed to members a week ago to update contact information and request your dues payment for 2011. Please update you address and membership status if you have made a change over the year. If you did not get a form in the mail, you can fill out the form here on our WWW site and put it along with your 2011 payment into the mail to make certain that you get the newsletter and updates on the 2011 New Orleans meeting. The Board of Directors has held the line on dues which will be only TWENTY DOLLARS for 2011.