Barbara Plake, PhD - Director Emeritus Buros Center for Testing

Assessment...with a Touch of Class: Ensuring the Quality of Classroom Assessments (40 min.) LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. Identify six key indicators of high quality classroom assessments. 2. Be able to describe these six indicators in non-technical terms. 3. Explain how assessments can provide accurate information, high quality feedback, and involving students in the assessment process. ABSTRACT: This introductory-level presentation will focus on how the fundamental concepts of testing quality apply to classroom assessment practices. Maintaining testing quality helps ensure that those assessments reach an appropriate level of technical quality and that the results can support teaching and learning. The presentation will also stress that effective classroom assessment practices require cooperation between teachers and education leaders and that student involvement is a critical part of assessment. BIOGRAPHY: 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. American Psychological Association (APA) Buros Center for Testing is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Buros Center for Testing maintains responsibility for this program and its content. National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Buros Center for Testing is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Buros Center for Testing maintains responsibility for this program and its content. There is no known commercial support for this program. For a brief preview of this video, click link below.