Each year NATD produces an Annual Proceeding. One purpose of these proceedingsis to disseminate
important information about testing issues to practitioners in schools.We have a number of back issues
available for order. If you want any of the following issues, pleasesend $10 and the year of issue to:
Joe O'Reilly, 549 North Stapley Drive, Mesa AZ 85203.
1999 Proceedings: Issues and Trendsin Inclusive Assessment Practices
1998 Proceedings: Revisiting the Issue of Measuring and Reporting StudentGrowth in an Era of Standards Based Reform (Coming Soon)
1997 Proceedings: The Rasch Tiger Ten Years Later:Using IRT Techniques To Measure Achievement In Schools
1993 Proceedings: (Testing...Testing...) Do we know we are going? Havewe been here before? The scoop from P.O.O.P.P's; Objectifying the Subjective:Rubrics, Scoring guides, and Other Ways of Knowing
1992 Proceedings: National Assessment in England and Wales; AlternativeAssessments in Practice: Perspectives on Issues and Problems
1991 Proceedings: More Authentic Assessment: Theory and practice; MeasurementIssues in Performance Assessment; Local, State, National and InternationalIndicator Systems: Will we know where we are if we get there?
1990 Proceedings: Issues in Large Scale Assessment Programs
1989 Proceedings: Beyond the Wall Chart: Indicators and school ranking;Dog-eared Reports are the Best of the Breed: Recognizing and rewardingevaluation utilization; Standardized Tests at the Pre-school Level: Dothey tell us the truth about children?
1988 Proceedings: Customization of a National Standardized AchievementTest; Multi-layered Testing in the Los Angeles Unified School District
1987 Proceedings: Perspectives on Public Reporting of Test Results; StudentAchievement Comparison Among States:
Issues and status; Riding the Rasch Tiger; The Testing Octopus: A tentaclefor curriculum,or, How do you dance with a octopus? ; Who's in Charge ofTesting Now? or, A system used to consolidate testing throughout a district.
1986 Proceedings: Legitimate Ways to Prepare Students for StandardizedTests; Taming the Rasch Tiger: Using item response theory in practicaleducational measurement.
1985 Proceedings: Cheating on Standardized Tests:Issues and Problems inLarge City Schools; Guidelines and Principles for National Test NormingStudies
Newsletters
Our library of past newsletters is contained below. The two most recent newsletters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. See the link below the table to obtain Acrobat if you need it. There are some time gaps so we probably do not have them all. Are there any "collectors" out there who have missing hard copies that we can scan and add?
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