Workshop on Performance Assessments for Adult Education: Exploring the Measurement Issues

December 12-13, 2001

Robert J. Mislevy (Chair), Professor, Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, University of Maryland at College Park

Judith A. Alamprese, Principal Associate, Abt Associates Inc.

Lyle F. Bachman, Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL, University of California at Los Angeles

Robert Bickerton, Director, Adult and Community Learning Services, Massachusetts Department of Education

John P. Comings, Senior Research Associate Lecturer on Education and Director of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Susan K. Cowles, Instructor, Linn-Benton Community College, Corvallis, Oregon

Neal Schmitt, Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University

Catherine E. Snow, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

Henry Braun, Distinguished Presidential Appointee and Managing Director of Literacy Services, Educational Testing Service

Leah A. Bricker, Senior Program Associate with Project 2061, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Eduardo Cascallar, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research

R. Michael Dean, Staff Member in the Division of Adult Education and Literacy at the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education

Stephen B. Dunbar, Professor of Educational Measurement and Statistics, College of Education, University of Iowa

Ronald K. Hambleton, Distinguished University Professor, Center for Educational Assessment, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Richard K. Hill, Founder and Executive Director, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc.

James Impara, Director, Buros Institute of Assessment Consultation and Outreach

Marcia Invernizzi, Professor of Reading, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

Cheryl Keenan, Director of Adult Education, State of Pennsylvania Myrna Manley, Retired Teacher and Author, El Camino College

Joanne Meier, Assistant Professor, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

Donna Miller-Parker, Director of Essential Skills Programs, Shoreline Community College, Seattle, Washington

Mark Moody, Assistant Superintendent for Planning, Results, and Information Management, Maryland Department of Education

Pamela A. Moss, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan

Mari Pearlman, Vice President, Division of Teaching and Learning, Educational Testing Service

Barbara S. Plake, W.C. Meierhenry Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Oscar and Luella Buros Center for Testing, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Mark D. Reckase, Professor of Measurement and Quantitative Methods, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University

Stephen G. Sireci, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Sondra Stein, Senior Research Associate, National Institute for Literacy

David Thissen, Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fran Tracy-Mumford, State Supervisor for Adult and Community Education, Delaware Department of Public Instruction

Katherine (Kit) A. Viator, Administrator for Student Testing, Massachusetts Department of Education

Wendy M. Yen, Vice President of Research at K-12 Works, Educational Testing Service

Sandra Baxter, National Institute for Literacy

Brenda Bell, Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee Martha Berlin, Westat

Sue Bowers, U.S. Department of Education

Osa Brand, Association of American Geographers

Joyce Campbell, U.S. Department of Education

Alicia Cascallar, Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy

Larry Condelli, American Institutes for Research Anna Critz, ACT, Inc.

Carol D’Amico, U.S. Department of Education

Denise Daniels, District of Columbia Public Schools

Daria Ellis, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Penelope Engel, Educational Testing Service

Michael Fong, U.S. Department of Education

Carol Fuller, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

Brenda Gagne, Maine Department of Education

Elaine Gilby, U.S. Department of Education

Marilyn Gillespie, SRI International

Lynda Ginsburg, National Center on Adult Literacy, University of Pennsylvania

Barbara Goodwin, Maine Department of Education

Sharon Healy, Maryland Department of Education

Eugene Johnson, American Institutes for Research

Michael Jones, U.S. Department of Education

Dorry Kenyon, Center for Applied Linguistics

Andrew Kolstad, U.S. Department of Education

Kristen Kulongoski, Oregon Department of Community Colleges

Mark Kutner, American Institutes for Research

Mariann Lemke, U.S. Department of Education

Mohammed Louguit, Center for Applied Linguistics

Mary Lovell, U.S. Department of Education

Christopher Mazzeo, National Governors Association

Peggy McGuire, National Institute for Literacy

Lennox McLendon, National Adult Education/Professional Development Consortium

Rebecca Moak, U.S. Department of Education

Leyla Mohadjer, Westat

Pat Montalvan, Westat

Sarah Newcomb, U.S. Department of Education

James Parker, U.S. Department of Education

Robert Pasternack, U.S. Department of Education

Kathleen Petrek, National Institute for Literacy

Loretta Petty, U.S. Department of Education

Ron Pugsley, U.S. Department of Education

Sen Qi, American Council on Education

Lynn Reese, Center on Education and Training for Employment, Ohio State University

Laura Roach, Oregon Department of Community Colleges

John Sabatini, National Center on Adult Literacy, University of Pennsylvania

Tanya Shuy, National Institutes of Health

Stephanie Stauffer, Center for Applied Linguistics

Shirley Steele, U.S. Department of Education

Regie Stites, SRI International

Carol Van Duzer, National Center for ESL Literacy Education

Nicole Vartanian, U.S. Department of Education

Sheida White, U.S. Department of Education

Jean Yan, Westat

Cindy Zengler, Ohio Department of Education

Pasquale DeVito, Director, Board on Testing and Assessment

Michael Feuer, Director, Center for Education

Kaeli Knowles, Board on Testing and Assessment

Judith Koenig, Board on Testing and Assessment

Patricia Morison, Center for Education

Nevzer Stacey, Center for Education

Andrew Tompkins, Board on Testing and Assessment