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GSE Profiles
Staff Contact: Diana Smith
Brent Duckor
Education Researcher
BEAR
Office: 4419 Tolman Hall
Phone: 642-6476
Email: bduckor@berkeley.edu
Website: bearcenter.berkeley.edu/projects/DIAS_page.php
Office: 4606 Tolman Hall, MC 1670
Phone: 510-642-7984
Email: dlsmith@calmail.berkeley.edu
Brent Duckor is currently BEAR co-Director of the "Developing an Integrated Assessment and Support System For Elementary Teacher Education" (DIAS) project, a collaboration between the School of Education at the University of Michigan and the Bear Center at University of California, Berkeley.The DIAS project is a multi-year research collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation. Its goal is to develop, implement, and evaluate a prototype for an integrated assessment system in elementary teacher education. It is currently focusing on mathematics, but plans to also work on English Language arts (ELA). The project focuses on three settings for initial professional development: (a) the subject matter methods course and related field instruction, (b) the student teaching semester and related seminar, and, for assessment purposes only, (c) the initial induction year. The intended users of the data from the assessment system include student teachers, cooperating teachers, field instructors and program faculty at the University of Michigan, School of Education.
The focus of the DIAS project is on measuring both classroom and program level outcomes from an evidence-based perspective. The BEAR center is collaborating with the Michigan team in the development of progress variables, an item bank, a set of scoring procedures and the technical calibration of the prototype assessment system. The expected uses of data derived from the assessment system include: (a) supporting the development of student teachers for teaching mathematics and ELA, (b) supporting the development of the school- and university-based faculty who work with them in analyzing teaching practice and giving feedback, (c) facilitating cooperation (and common understanding) across these different communities of practice, and (d) warranting the quality of the teacher education program and the decisions made about student teachers' readiness-to-teach mathematics and ELA for accountability purposes.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Education, Quantitative Methods and Evaluation
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Education
M.I.A., Columbia University, International Affairs
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, Politics
return to topCentral Park East Secondary School, Teacher and Advisor, Senior Institute (1996-2000)
Language for Eastern European Development Foundation, Executive Vice President and Board Member (1991-1996)
Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary, Lecturer (1990-1991)
Apaczai Nevelesi Kozpont Gimnazium, Pecs, Hungary, Teacher (1989-1990)
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Graduate
Research in Science and Mathematics Education: Assessment and Evaluation (GSI, Stanford University)
Measurement in Education & Social Sciences (GSI, UC Berkeley)
Undergraduate
Psychological Measurement (Lecturer, San Jose State University)Secondary
Democracy, State & SocietyEconomic Theory: From Smith to Keynes
Entrepreneurship
Ancient World Civilizations
Introduction to Western Philosophy: From Plato to Hegel
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BooksDuckor, B., Brown, N. J. S., Draney, K., & Wilson, M. (Eds.), Advances in Rasch Measurement: Volume 2. Maple Grove, MN: JAM Press (forthcoming).
Book Reviews, Comments, etc.Duckor, B. (2004). [Review of William A. Firestone, Roberta Y. Schorr, and Lora Frances Monfils (Eds.), (2004). The ambiguity of teaching to the test: Standards, assessment and educational reform. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.] Teaching Education, 15(4), 420-423.
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InvitedDuckor, B. (2001, November). San Francisco High Tech High: What it could be. Invited address to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, California.
Duckor, B. (2001, September). Designing a high performance embedded assessment system for High Tech High schools. Invited presentation at High Tech High School, San Diego, California.
Duckor, B. (2001, June). Student performance assessments at Central Park East Secondary School. Invited presentation at School Redesign Network Institute, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California.
Duckor, B. (2000, March). Digital entrepreneurs: Lessons from STE2000. Presentation at the Kids Who Know and Do conference, AutoDesk Foundation, San Francisco, California.
Duckor, B. (1999, November). Student as entrepreneur: Another perspective on our common principles. Presentation at the Fall Forum, Coalition of Essential Schools, Atlanta, Georgia.
Duckor, B. (1999, June). Entrepreneurship for all: A portfolio-based approach. Invited presentation at the Research Institute on Secondary Education Reform conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
Duckor, B. (1998, April). STE 2000: The promise of entrepreneurship at Central Park East Secondary School. Invited presentation at the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Kansas.
Duckor, B. (1998, October). Integrating math and economics: A portfolio-driven approach. Invited presentation at the Center for Collaborative Education, New York, New York.
PapersMoss, P., Boerst, T., & Duckor, B. (2008, March). Developing an Integrated Assessment System (DIAS) for Teacher Education: Elementary Mathematics. Paper presented at symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association conference, New York, New York.
Duckor, B. (2008, March). Measuring student proficiency with the Constructing Measures framework. Paper presented at the 14th Biennial International Objective Measurement Workshop, New York, New York.
Fisher, W.P., & Duckor, B. (2008, March). Measures that count, measures that matter. Paper presented at the 14th Biennial International Objective Measurement Workshop, New York, New York.
Moss, P., Boerst, T., & Duckor, B. (2007, September). Developing an integrated assessment system in elementary mathematics teacher education. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the DR K-12 conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Duckor, B. (2007, August). Measuring measuring: An item response theory approach to the study of proficiency in constructing measures. Paper accepted for presentation at the 12th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction conference, Budapest, Hungary.
Bernbaum, D., B. Duckor, B. & Tan, R. (2007, May). Tools for assessing student progress. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning conference, San Jose, California.
Duckor, B. (2007, April). Measuring measuring: An item response theory approach to the study of proficiency in constructing measures. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Duckor, B. (2007, April). Measuring measuring: An item response theory approach to the study of proficiency in constructing measures. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Duckor, B. (2006, April). Wanted dead or alive: Towards a theory of charter school growth and decline. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association conference, San Francisco, California.
Duckor, B. (2006, April). Measuring measuring: An item response theory approach. Paper presented at the 13th Biennial International Objective Measurement Workshop, Berkeley, California.
Duckor, B. (2005, July). The development of teachers as assessment professionals: Novices or experts in the classroom? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Australian Teacher Education Association conference, Gold Coast, Australia.
Duckor, B. & Mayer, D., (2005, July). The teaching professional and classroom assessment. Symposium presented at The International Study Association for Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) conference, Sydney, Australia.
Duckor, B. (2005, May). Thinking about the act of measuring: The development of a theory of the construct. Individual poster presented at the annual meeting of the Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning conference, Santa Rosa, California.
Duckor, B. & Corrigan, S. (2005, February). Lessons from a Work Circle: Six ingredients for successful partnerships. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Duckor, B. & Corrigan, S. (2004, November). Learning and implementing the BEAR system: Continuity and disjuncture. Poster session presented at the Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Center, Berkeley, California.
Duckor, B. (2004, June). Construct mapping: Implications for IRT-based assessment practice. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial International Objective Measurement Workshop, Cairns, Australia.
Duckor, B. & Brown, N. J. S. (2004, June). The development and refinement of construct maps: What we are learning about the BEAR Assessment System in the field. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial International Objective Measurement Workshop, Cairns, Australia.
Duckor, B. (2004, April). Work Circles: Bringing practitioners and theoreticians to the table of assessment reform. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning conference, Carmel, California.
Duckor, B. (2004, February). The Work Circle: Bringing the assessment triangle to life. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Center for Learning and Teaching conference, Washington, D.C.
return to topCo-director, Students to Entrepreneurship 2000 program, supported by U.S. Department of Education and Kauffman Foundation, 1998-2000
return to topNational Science Foundation Fellow, Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning, 2002-2006
Dean's Normative Time Fellow, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley, 2004-2005
Flanders Fellow, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley, 2001-2002
University Fellow, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley, 2000-2001
Education Abroad Program, University of Sussex, 1985-1986
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ConsultanciesHigh Tech High Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Professional ServiceConference Co-organizer, 13th Biennial International Objective Measurement Workshop, Berkeley, CA, 2006
University and GSE ServiceMember, Early College Initiative Committee, 2003 - 2007
return to topAmerican Educational Research Association
National Council on Measurement in Education
International Objective Measurement Workshop
Kensington Hilltop Elementary School Site Council, 2004-2006
United Federation of Teachers, 1998-2000
return to topOther AffiliationsAdvisory Board Member, HarlemLive (New York), 1998-2000
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Assessment and Educational Measurement
High School Reform
Learning
Psychometrics
Qualitative Methods
Quantitative Methods
Reform Issues
Teacher Development
Teacher Education and Certification
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