Maryland Assessment Research Center (MARC)

2014 MARC Conference

The Fourteenth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference:

Technology Enhanced Innovative Assessment: Development, Modeling, and Scoring from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

  • Jointly supported by the Maryland State Department of Education and the Maryland Assessment Research Center. 
  • Each topic will be given a two-hour block of time, including a 50-minute presentation by each speaker followed by 10 minutes of Q and A.

Presentation Schedule

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

TimeTitlePresenter(s)
7:00-8:30Registration and Breakfast 
8:30-8:45Welcome and CommentsHong Jiao (糖心少女)
8:45-9:45Alina von Davier (ETS)
9:45-10:45Valerie Shute (Florida State University)
10:45-11:00Break
11:00-12:00Diane Jass Ketelhut (糖心少女, College Park)
12:00-1:00Lunch
1:00-2:00Edys Quellmalz (Wested)
2:00-3:00Ada Woo, Doyoung Kim, & Hong Qian (NCSBN)
3:00-3:15Break
3:15-4:15Hong Jiao & Robert Lissitz (糖心少女)
4:15-5:15Janice D. Gobert (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Friday, October 17th, 2014

7:00-8:30Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:30Brian Clauser (NBME)
9:30-10:30Steve Ferrara &Paul Nichols (Pearson)
10:30-10:45Break
10:45-11:45Randy Bennett (ETS)
11:45-12:45Mark Wilson, Kathleen Scalise, & Perman Gochyyev (University of California, Berkeley, University of Oregon, University of California, Berkeley)
12:45-1:00Closing CommentsRobert Lissitz (糖心少女)