HumRRO's Recent Experience Related to Race to the Top

Ensuring High-Quality Assessments

National Center for Education Statistics
(2002-present)

Quality Assurance for the National Assessment of Educational Progress

Reports and products are internal to NAEP staff and contractors

Peggy Carr
Associate Commissioner

Florida Department of Education (2001-present)

Perform psychometric processing analyses and special studies related to the statewide assessment, including the construction of a vertical scale for measuring individual student growth.

Kris Ellington
Assistant Deputy Commissioner

Kentucky Department of Education (1997-present)

Assessment quality assurance, validity, and other psychometric studies.

Roger Ervin
System Administrator
Office of Assessment and Accountability

Michigan Department of Education as a subcontractor to Questar Assessment, Inc.
(2009-present)

Assessment quality assurance for the alternate assessment and assessment of English language proficiency

Jeff Slinde
Vice President of Psychometric Services
Questar Assessment, Inc.

Minnesota Department of Education (2006-present)

Assessment quality assurance including AYP computation and growth modeling for the statewide assessment.

Dirk Mattson
Director, Assessment and Testing

Pennsylvania Board of Education (2002-2005) and as a subcontractor to Data Recognition Corporation (2004-present)

Assessment quality assurance and validity studies.

Jim Buckheit
Executive Director
717-787-3787

Shaundra Sand
Senior Director, State Assessment Programs, DRC

North Dakota Department of Public Instruction as a subcontractor to CTB (2004-present)

Assessment quality assurance

Amy Dement-Dorey
Program Manager, CTB

California Department of Education (2000-present)

Evaluation of the California High School Exit Exam

Deb Sigman
Deputy Superintendent, Curriculum, Learning, and Accountability Branch

Kentucky Department of Education and the National Alternate Assessment Center (NAAC) (2008-present)

Several reports related to the impact and validity of KY’s alternate assessment program as part of a General Supervision in Education Grant (GSEG) consortium project—unreleased.

Kevin O’Hair
Division of Assessment Support
Communications Program Consultant

Service on State Technical Advisory Committees

-    Oklahoma Department of Education (chair)

-    Hawaii Department of Education (chair)

-    Rhode Island/New England Common Assessment Program

Meeting notes internal to the departments of education only.

Jennifer Stegman
Assistant Superintendent
Oklahoma Dept. of Education

Cara Tanimura
Planning & Evaluation Director
Hawaii Dept. of Education

Mary Ann Snider
Director of Assessment and Accountability
Rhode Island Dept. of Education

Developing and Aligning Standards

California Department of Education

Development of Performance Level Descriptors (PLDs) for grades 3-8 and high school

Independent alignment reviews of:
California Standardized Tests (CSTs)  

California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) to California content standards

Deborah Sigman
Deputy Superintendent, Curriculum, Learning, and Accountability Branch

Diane Hernandez
Statewide Assessment Division

Council of Chief State School Officers and Oklahoma Department of Education (2003-2006)

Developing a system for vertical alignment of content standards

Phoebe Winter
Independent Evaluator

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (2007 – present)

Independent alignment reviews of Missouri Assessment Program (MAP), Missouri Assessment Program-Alternate (MAP-A), and End-of-Course Assessments (EOC) with Norman Webb

(reports under review by department)

Michael Muenks
Coordinator of Curriculum and Assessment

Minnesota Department of Education (2008)

Independent alignment reviews of Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA), Minnesota Test for Academic Skills (MTAS), and Mathematics Test of English Learners (MTELL) to Minnesota regular and alternate content standards.

Dirk Mattson
Director, Assessment and Testing

Idaho State Board of Education (2004-2005)

Review of technical quality and content alignment of Idaho Standardized Achievement Test (ISAT)

Carissa Moffat Miller
Deputy Superintendent, Assessment

HumRRO Internal Research and Development

(2006-present)

HumRRO funded an internal project to create a public on-line database of PLDs (grades 4, 8, and HS) from 11 states to support state comparisons of what it means for students to be proficient in math, reading, and science.

Sheila Schultz
Program Manager, Educational Policy Impact Center, HumRRO

Monitoring Trends in Student Achievement

Center on Education Policy (2006 – present)

Collection and verification of annual state-level NCLB test results for 50 states, disaggregated for 17 demographic groups; analyses to evaluate state and national trends.

Jack Jennings
President and CEO, Center on Education Policy

Evaluating School Improvement Efforts

California Department of Education (2008-2009)

S4 Evaluation, which examined the effectiveness of the Statewide System of School Support (S4) in helping districts and their Title I schools, especially those Title I schools in Program Improvement.

Julie Baltazar, Administrator
Regional Coordination and Support Office

Kentucky Department of Education (1997-2009)

A series of reports based on site visits to Kentucky public schools and surveys to educators that link instructional practices, school culture and learning environment with students’ state assessment results

Roger Ervin
Office of Assessment and AccountabilitySystem Administrator

Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board (2005-2007)

Two reports related to identifying effective instructional practices in Kentucky middle schools

Steve Clements
Chair, Department of Business, Economics, and Political Science
Asbury College

Educational Program Evaluations

College Board

Program evaluation of the Pacesetter (now Springboard) Program for Math and Reading

Thanos Patelis
Executive Director of Data & Reporting Products

College Board and Florida Department of Education

Florida Partnership for Minority and Underrepresented Students.

Jacqueline Gillie
Associate Director, Florida Partnership, The College Board

Prince Georges County Public Schools

Program evaluations of the County’s Biotechnology, Science and Math programs, Alternative Middle School, and Alternative High School programs.

Shahpar Modaressi
Office of Testing, Research, and Evaluation

Developing Performance Models

Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Support to Director of Competencies and Standards

To design, develop, and implement a 360 Degree Feedback Program of employee assessment

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

Job Analysis of special agent positions and competency model development for Industry Operations Investigations (IOI)

US Dept of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Conduct job analysis and develop competency Models for Intelligence Career Series (ICS) occupations