The Washington Educational Research Association
is pleased to announce

Pacific Northwesi Research
and Evaluation Conference

EXPO 86 - VANCOUVE
May 8 & 9, 1986
hosted by

B.C.

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The University of British Columbia

Keynote Speaker

John Goodlad. Dr. Goodlad is the recently retired
Dean of the Graduate School at UCLA and currently
is visiting professor at the University of Washington.
His topic will be Contextual Appraisal and the Im-
provement of Schooling.

Research and Evaluation
Conference Highlights

This two-day conference is for district
testing/research staff, inservice coordinators, language
arts specialists, curriculum coordinators, teacher
trainers and any other professionals interested in the
quality and improvement of educational research and
evaluation.

This conference will consist of several tracks that
will provide a detailed look at current important
issues in the field of education. Among issues ten-
tatively planned are:

TOPIC
Technology in Evaluation
PRESENTERS ;
Bob McCormik, National Computer Systems
(NCS)
Tim Hughes, Computer Managed Instruction Soft-
ware, Abacus/Hewlitt Packard
Pat Gallagher, Cognitronics Test Scoring Systems
Fred Forster, Microsystems for Education and
Business
TOPIC .
The Evaluation of Science
PRESENTERS
Northwest Evaluation Association Science Assess-

ment Project
Applications of the Science Assessment project in

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selected districts

TOPIC
A Symposium on Grade 12 Provincewide testing in
British Cokunbia
PRESENTERS
Jerry Massio, B.C. Ministry of Education
Patrick Bell, Administrator, North Vancouver
School District
a Strike, Principal, Lord Byng Secondary
ool
Grace Klemovich, English Teacher, Queen
Elizabeth Secondary School
David Robitaille, University of British Columbia
Jim Cherrill, Moderator

‘TOPIC

The Evaluation of Gifted Eidveatlon

PRESENTERS
Steven Schuman, Vancouver School District
Stanley Blank and Julie Ellis, British Columbia

Plus selected papers

in the areas of:

Sustained Effects: Year Two of the Program
Terry Meckler and Dr. James Vogler, Los Angeles

County Office of Education

Open-Ended Forms in Large-Scale Assessrnent
Thomas O’Shea, Simon Fraser University

Evaluation & Research in the Multicultural Milieu
Sheena Selkirk, Vancouver, BC

Examination of the Role & Position of Program
Evaluators in Washington State Public Schools
Bob Rayborn, Mukilteo School District

Profile Analysis of Analytical Scores in a Statewide
Assessment

Wayne Neuburger, Oregon Department of =
Education