The Buros Center for Testing is hosting a lecture by Dr. Barbara Plake on Thursday, April 9, 2015 from 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will be held in Teachers College Hall, room 105.
Plake’s lecture, titled “Assessment…with a Touch of Class,” focuses on how the fundamental concepts of testing quality apply to classroom assessment practices. It focuses on ensuring the classroom assessments reach an appropriate level of technical quality so that classroom assessment results can support teaching and learning. It stresses that effective classroom assessment practices require cooperation between teachers and education leaders and necessarily involve students.
Dr. Plake is also presenting the first webinar in Buros’ Decoding the Standards webinar series the day after her lecture, April 10, 2015 from 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. CDT. The webinar is titled “Overview of 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.” More info about the webinar series can be found here: buros.org/decoding-standards-webinar-series.
Barbara Plake served as co-chair (with Lauress Wise) of the Joint Committee for the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Statistics and Measurement in 1976 from the University of Iowa. She worked as a Research Associate for American College Testing before joining the faculty in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977. In 1988 she become the Director of the Buros Center for Testing. While at the University of Nebraska, she received the University-wide Foundations Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1985 and received the W.C. Meierhenry Distinguished University Professorship in 1991. She is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Test Publishers and the Career Award from the National Council on Measurement. She is a Fellow of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. She retired from UNL in 2006 and now serves as an independent consultant for many organizations, states, and federal programs.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/p92v