A Seat at the Table With Education Week: Testing & Accountability, featuring Dr.

Lorrie
A. Shepard and Dr. Angela Valenzuela

Friends:

I'm happy to invite you to a conversation that I am honored to be having next week with Dr.
Lorrie A. Shepard on the very important topic of testing and accountability in a conversation
moderated by Peter Dewitt for his online talk show at Education Week. The event is free and
open to the public. It takes place next Wednesday, January 13, 2021, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST.

If you're in Texas, we get going at 1 p.m. CST. Please go to this link to register.

I encourage you to read this recent piece by Dr. Lorrie Shepard beforehand titled, “Testing
Students This Spring Would Be a Mistake.” I also encourage you to sign this National Call to
Suspend High-Stakes Testing in Spring 2021 which now has 5,000+ signatures linked
from FairTest.org where I served for many years as a board member.

EdWeek will record and archive this webinar in case you can’t attend.

Angela
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Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.

Education Policy and Planning
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
The University of Texas at Austin
1912 Speedway D5400, SZB 374H
Austin, TX 78712-1604
Twitter: @vlnzl

The pandemic has disrupted lives and schooling for nearly a year—and some in the education
space—and beyond—worry about lost learning. One way to know what has been lost is through
testing, but is it reasonable to hold students—or their teachers—accountable for one of the most
challenging years in recent memory? This year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress,
or NAEP—often referred to as “the Nation’s Report Card—has been postponed because of the
pandemic. What impact will this decision have on education in this country?
Join Peter DeWitt as he sits down with researcher Lorrie Shepard, past president of the
American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Measurement in
Education, as they discuss this critical topic, especially given the circumstances.

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SPEAKERS

Lorrie A. Shepard

Distinguished Professor and Dean Emerita, University of Colorado Boulder

Lorrie A. Shepard is University Distinguished Professor?at the University of Colorado Boulder in

the?Research and Evaluation Methodology program.? Her research focuses on psychometrics
and the use and misuse of tests in educational settings.? Her technical work has contributed to
validity theory, standard setting, and statistical models for detecting test bias.? Her research
studies on test use have addressed the identification of learning disabilities, readiness
screening for kindergarten, grade retention, teacher testing, effects of high-stakes accountability
testing, and, most recently, the use of classroom assessment to support teaching and learning.

Dr. Shepard is past president of the American Educational Research Association and the
National Council on Measurement in Education.? She was elected to the National Academy of
Education in 1992 and served as president from 2005-2009.
Angela Valenzuela

Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction and the Department of Educational

Leadership and Policy, University of Texas at Austin

Angela Valenzuela is professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and the
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Valenzuela is director of the Texas Center for Education Policy. Previously, she taught in the
Department of Sociology at Rice University in Houston, and she was a visiting scholar at the
Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston. She completed her Ph.D. at
Stanford University. Angela is the award-winning author of the book, Subtractive Schooling:
U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring (1999). Valenzuela serves on the LULAC
National Task Force on Higher Education, and is the executive director of the National Latina/o
Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAPP), a consortium of ten institutions that
enhances teaching for high school youth in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Chicago, New York,
Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

MODERATOR

Peter DeWitt

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Peter DeWitt is a former K-5 public school principal turned author, presenter, and independent
consultant.

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