Unless otherwise specified, events
take place from 2-4 PM at:
UC
Berkeley
Graduate School of Education
Tolman Hall
Room
2515
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September 2
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BEAR
Expose Part I
Center
for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning
(CAESL)
Professor Maryl Gearhart, UC Berkeley
Nathaniel
Brown, Brent Duckor, Lydia Liu, Cheryl Schwab,
and Sevan
Tutunciyan
CAESL partners have been working on applied
research with the goal of increasing knowledge and developing practices
that maximize the positive effects of assessment on student learning
and understanding. Another goal is to improve the use of educational
technology to enhance assessment. Partners include BEAR staff
and students in collaboration with the National Center for Research on
Education Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, Stanford
University, the Lawrence Hall of Science, and WestEd.
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September
16
(Tue)
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BEAR
Expose, Part II--BEAR Projects
BEAR
Projects featured include:
Principled
Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI)
Combining Generalizability Theory
with Item Response Modeling (GIRM)
Assessing Science Knowledge
(ASK)
Evaluating the Validity of Teacher Licensure Decisions
(EVTLD)
Desired Results Developmental Profile
(DRDP)
GradeMAP
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October
7
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Evaluating the Effects of Proposition 227 on the
Education of K-12 English Learners : findings to date from a 5-year
study.
Presenter:
Robert
Linquanti
Project Director for
English Learner Evaluation and Senior Research Associate at
WestEd
Abstract:
Presentation will
include findings from the first two years of the study, specifically
addressing the language proficiency and academic achievement of
California's English Learners, as well as results from surveys of
California teachers and school and district administratrors.
Methodological challenges and strategies, study implications,
recommendations and next steps will be discussed.
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October
21
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Evaluation of a Transitional Bilingual Education
Program: Findings, issues and next steps.
Dr Carolyn Hofstetter, Assistant Professor, UC
Berkeley
Alice Miano, Doctoral Candidate LL/SC, UC
Berkeley
This 3-year study examines a transitional
Spanish/English bilingual education program in enhancing K-5 students'
English language proficiency and their English performance in academic
subject areas, in comparison with an English Immersion process.
Findings, theoretical and methodological issues, and implications for
future research will be featured.
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Nov
4
(Tue)
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No BEAR Seminar on Nov
4 |
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Nov
18
(Tue)
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Evaluation of the Delivery of Mental Health
Services in San Francisco Child Care
Settings
Thomas Bleecker, PhD. Clinical and Research
Psychologist and Health Care Analyst, San Francisco Dept. of Public
Health
The Child, Youth and Family System of
Care of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health has funded the High
quality Child Care Mental Health Consultation Initiative to improve child
care quality. The initiative
supports community-based agencies to provide on-site mental health
consultation to child care sites. The Initiative users 8CBO’s to provide
services to over 80 child care centers. Rather than following a single
model of mental health consultation, models evolve from the interaction of
centers and mental health providers.
The multiplicity of consultation models presents a challenge for
the Department’s internal evaluation unit, which is charged with assessing
the efficacy of the services provided. Dr. Bleeker will discuss how the
evaluation team arrived at a set of outcomes shared across all sites, and
how we found and created instrumentation to assess these outcomes.
San Francisco Child Care Mental Health Screening
Project
Yueh-Wen Chang, Ed.D. Project Coordinator-Mental
Health Screening and School Readiness Evaluation Projects, San Francisco
Dept. of Public Health
The Child, Youth and Family System of
Care in the City and County of San Francisco is working to adapt tools for
screening and assessing children birth to 5 in child care settings for
early signs of behavioral or emotional problems. The evaluation team will
present the process and challenges in creating and piloting the screening
tools. They will also share
their experiences working in the governmental evaluation
unit.
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December
02
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An
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Oakland Unified School District's New
Small Autonomous Schools Policy
(2000-2003)
Jean Yonemura Wing
PhD. Graduated from the Social and Cultural Studies program, Graduate
School of Education, UC Berkeley.
In May 2000, the Oakland Board of
Education unanimously passed a New Small Autonomous Schools (NSAS)
District Policy calling for the creation of new, small, redesigned schools
in the densely populated flatlands neighborhoods, home to most of
Oakland's low income families. The policy was the result of a
parent-led movement organized by Oakland Community Organizations (OCO),
and inspired by gains in student achievement over the past two decades
by small automous schools in New York. The Oakland Unified
School District, Oakland Community Organizations (OCO), and the Bay Area
Coalition for Equitable Schools (BayCES) became partners in the
implementation of the NSAS district policy. The evaluation report,
written by Judith Warren Little and Jean Wing, covers the first nine small
autonomous schools. Jean Wing will discuss the process and results
of this evaluation of the district policy implementation, including an
evaluation of parent and teacher satisfaction, as well as student
satisfaction and achievement
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