2015 MARC Conference

The Fifteenth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference:

Test Fairness in the New Generation of Large-Scale Assessment

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


*Thursday, October 29th, 2015*
Time	Title	Presenter(s)
7:00-8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30-8:45	Welcome and Comments	Hong Jiao (��Ů)
8:45-9:45		Robert Mislevy (ETS)
9:45-10:45		Wim van der Linden (Pacific Metrics)
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00		Patrick Obregon and Ray Yan (FINRA)
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00		Linda Zimmerman, Jan McSorley and Paul Grudnitski(Pearson)
2:00-3:00		Sherral Miller, Michael Walker, Lynn Letukas(College Board)
3:00-3:15	Break
3:15-4:15		Matthias von Davier (ETS)
4:15-5:15		Edynn Sato (Pearson)
*Friday, October 30th, 2015*
7:00-8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:30		Bruno D. Zumbo and Amery D. Wu (University of British Columbia)
9:30-10:30	:	Daniel Bolt, Maritza Dowling, Yu-Shan Shih and Wei-Yin Loh (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:45		Mo Zhang, Neil Dorans, Chen Li and André Rupp (ETS)
11:45-12:45		Christina Schneider, Karla Egan and Brian Gong (Center for Assessment)
12:45-1:00	Closing Comments	Robert Lissitz (��Ů)

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