BEAR Events Calandar

Fall 2003

Sept 2

(Tue)

BEAR Expose Part I
Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning (CAESL)

Professor Maryl Gearhart, UC Berkeley
Nathaniel Brown, Brent Duckor, Lydia Liu, Cheryl Schwab,
and Sevan Tutunciyan

CAESL partners have been working on applied research with the goal of increasing knowledge and developing practices that maximize the positive effects of assessment on student learning and understanding. Another goal is to improve the use of educational technology to enhance assessment.  Partners include BEAR staff and students in collaboration with the National Center for Research on Education Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, Stanford University, the Lawrence Hall of Science, and WestEd.

Sept 16 

(Tue)

BEAR Expose, Part II--BEAR Projects

BEAR Projects featured include: 

Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI)
Combining Generalizability Theory with Item Response Modeling (GIRM)
Assessing Science Knowledge (ASK)
Evaluating the Validity of Teacher Licensure Decisions (EVTLD) 
Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP)
GradeMAP

Oct 7

(Tue)

Evaluating the Effects of Proposition 227 on the Education of K-12 English Learners : findings to date from a 5-year study. 

Presenter:

Robert Linquanti

Project Director for English Learner Evaluation and Senior Research Associate at WestEd

Abstract:

Presentation will include findings from the first two years of the study, specifically addressing the language proficiency and academic achievement of California's English Learners, as well as results from surveys of California teachers and school and district administratrors.  Methodological challenges and strategies, study implications, recommendations and next steps will be discussed.

Oct 21

(Tue)

Evaluation of a Transitional Bilingual Education Program: Findings, issues and next steps.

Dr Carolyn Hofstetter, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

Alice Miano, Doctoral Candidate LL/SC, UC Berkeley

This 3-year study examines a transitional Spanish/English bilingual education program in enhancing K-5 students' English language proficiency and their English performance in academic subject areas, in comparison with an English Immersion process.  Findings, theoretical and methodological issues, and implications for future research will be featured.

Nov 4

(Tue)

Nov 18

(Tue)

Evaluation of the Delivery of Mental Health Services in San Francisco Child Care Settings

Thomas Bleecker, PhD. Clinical and Research Psychologist and Health Care Analyst, San Francisco Dept. of Public Health

The Child, Youth and Family System of Care of San Franciscoís Department of Public Health has funded the High quality Child Care Mental Health Consultation Initiative to improve child care quality.  The initiative supports community-based agencies to provide on-site mental health consultation to child care sites. The Initiative users 8CBOís to provide services to over 80 child care centers.  Rather than following a single model of mental health consultation, models evolve from the interaction of centers and mental health providers.  The multiplicity of consultation models presents a challenge for the Departmentís internal evaluation unit, which is charged with assessing the efficacy of the services provided.  Dr. Bleeker will discuss how the evaluation team arrived at a set of outcomes shared across all sites, and how we found and created instrumentation to assess these outcomes.

San Francisco Child Care Mental Health Screening Project

Yueh-Wen Chang, Ed.D. Project Coordinator-Mental Health Screening and School Readiness Evaluation Projects, San Francisco Dept. of Public Health

The Child, Youth and Family System of Care in the City and County of San Francisco is working to adapt tools for screening and assessing children birth to 5 in child care settings for early signs of behavioral or emotional problems. The evaluation team will present the process and challenges in creating and piloting the screening tools.  They will also share their experiences working in the governmental evaluation unit.

Dec 02

(Tue)

An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Oakland Unified School District's New Small Autonomous Schools Policy (2000-2003)

Jean Yonemura Wing PhD. Graduated from the Social and Cultural Studies program, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley.

In May 2000, the Oakland Board of Education unanimously passed a New Small Autonomous Schools (NSAS) District Policy calling for the creation of new, small, redesigned schools in the densely populated flatlands neighborhoods, home to most of Oakland's low income families.  The policy was the result of a parent-led movement organized by Oakland Community Organizations (OCO), and inspired by gains in student achievement over the past two decades by small automous schools in New York.  The Oakland Unified School District, Oakland Community Organizations (OCO), and the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools (BayCES) became partners in the implementation of the NSAS district policy.  The evaluation report, written by Judith Warren Little and Jean Wing, covers the first nine small autonomous schools.  Jean Wing will discuss the process and results of this evaluation of the district policy implementation, including an evaluation of parent and teacher satisfaction, as well as student satisfaction and achievement outcome.