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Frontiers in Assessment: Instrumentation, Goals & Practices

The conference theme is intended to generate productive dialogues about issues of assessment and to help our field grow by highlighting assessments that go beyond traditional approaches.

The Hixson Lied Auditorium and Ballrooms are located in the Harper Center.

Contributed Posters can be set up starting at about 4:30pm on Wednesday. The posters will be available during breakfast and throughout the day on Thursday. They must be removed by 4:00pm on Thursday.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011
3:00pm - 4:30pm	AAPT/PERC Bridging Session - Hixson Lied Auditorium Presiding: Elizabeth Gire, University of Memphis Assessment Lessons from K-12 Education Research: Knowledge Representation, Learning, and Motivation Lorrie Shepard, University of Colorado at Boulder Complex Interactions Between Formative Assessment, Technology, and Classroom Practices Edward Price, California State University San Marcos Discussion
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Break Contributed posters may be set up in Ballroom A/B
5:00pm - 7:00pm	Banquet and Dinner Speaker - Ballroom C Presiding: Noah Podolefsky, University of Colorado at Boulder Standards-based Grading with Voice: Listening for Students' Understanding Andy Rundquist, Hamline University
7:00pm - 10:00pm	Contributed Poster Session - Ballroom A/B Odd-numbered posters are discussed from 7:30pm – 8:30pm and even-numbered posters are discussed from 8:30pm – 10:00pm

Thursday, August 4, 2011
7:30am - 8:30am	Breakfast - Ballroom A/B Continuing discussions around contributed posters will continue throughout the day.
8:30am - 10:00am	Morning Parallel Sessions Poster Gallery - Room 3023A Formative and Summative Assessment in Upper-Level Physics Organizers: C. Singh and G. Zhu Presenters: B. S. Ambrose, M. Loverude, C. A. Manogue, S. Pollock, C. Singh Poster Gallery - Room 3028 Fostering Computational Thinking Organizer: M. D. Caballero Presenters: M. D. Caballero, M. A. Kohlmyer, M. F. Schatz Round Table - Room 3027 Homework Systems for Learning Organizer: S. Godshall Presenters: S. Godshall, S. Franklin, Y. Lin, R. E. Teodorescu Round Table - Room 3029 Supporting Scientific Reasoning: From Teachers to Materials to Students Organizer: B. R. Patton Presenters: R. Chabay, B. R. Patton, B. A. Pyper Workshop - Room 3023B The Group-Administered-Interactive-Questionnaire: A Cost-Effective Alternative to Individual Interviews Organizer: E. Yerushalmi Co-organizers: C. Henderson, S. Lin, W. Mamudi, C. Singh
10:00am - 10:20am	Coffee Break - Ballroom A/B
10:20am - 12:20pm	Plenary Session - Hixson Lied Auditorium Presiding: David Brookes, Florida International University Research and Development of Enhanced Assessment Tools for Chemistry Education Thomas A. Holme, Iowa State University Defining and Assessing Competence in Science: Lessons Learned the Hard Way James W. Pellegrino, University of Illinois at Chicago Student Engagement in Disciplinary Assessment Co-presenter: Janet E. Coffey, University of Maryland Co-author: David Hammer
12:20pm - 1:50pm	Lunch - Ballroom C
1:50pm - 3:20pm	Afternoon Parallel Sessions Poster Gallery - Room 3027 Multiple Assessments of Multiple-Choice Assessments Organizers: C. Singh and J. Li Presenters: V. Coletta, J. Li, S. Lin, D. E. Meltzer, N. S. Rebello Poster Gallery - Room 3029 Proximal Formative Assessment Organizer: R. E. Scherr Authors: E. W. Close, S. B. McKagan, B. W. Harrer, E. C. Sayre, R. E. Scherr Poster Gallery - Room 3023 Representation Issues: Using Mathematics in Upper-Division Physics Organizers: C. A. Manogue, J. Thompson, and J. Wagner Authors: C. A. Manogue, E. Price, J. R. Thompson, M. C. Wittmann Poster Gallery - Room 3028 Moving Beyond Conceptual Inventories Organizer: B. Thacker Presenters: D. Demaree, E. Etkina, M. M. Haghanikar, P. B. Kohl, B. Thacker Workshop - Room 3023B Redesigning Assessments to Motivate Students for Deeper Learning Organizers: Y. Lin and D. Brookes
3:20pm - 4:00pm	Posters may be removed by authors. All posters should be taken down by 4pm.

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