ADVISORY/Hoover Institution To Host Symposium On School Assessment.

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Hoover Institution to Host Symposium On School Assessment

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WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN: Leading experts on testing student achievement
     will meet for a symposium at the Hoover Institution, Stanford
     University from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, October 19, 1998.
OPEN TO THE PRESS: At 1:30 p.m. the participants will give a series of
     talks and answer questions from invited members of the public and
     members of the media.
WHY: The Hoover Institution, through its Education Initiative,
     recognized that the question of how to best evaluate what a child
     had learned continues to be a topic of debate in the educational
     community. Hoover research fellow Williamson Evers organized the
     symposium so that experts could talk about everything from
     traditional fill-in-the-bubble tests to the newest trend:
     reviewing "portfolios" or collections of students' work.
     The symposium participants will include: George Cunningham, a
     professor of educational psychology at the University of
     Louisville; Barbara Foorman, director of the Center for Academic
     and Reading Skills at the University of Texas; Sandy Kress,
     designer of the State of Texas's accountability system; Stan
     Metzenberg, a biology professor at California State University,
     Northridge and science consultant to the California State
     Academic Standards Commission; Brian Stecher, a research
     scientist at RAND; and Herbert Walberg, a professor of education
     and psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.