Educational Research, Measurement & Evaluation

Lauren Chapman
November 2007 – Dr. Kathy Rhoades, Lauren Chapman and Dr. Joseph Pedulla had a paper accepted at the Hawaii Conference on Education, entitled “E-Learning for Educators: Examining Impacts on High Need Schools.”  Lauren Chapman will be presenting at the conference in January, 2008. 

Lauren Chapman and Maureen Kavanaugh
November 2007 - Lauren Chapman and Maureen Kavanaugh, and Dr. Jeanne Hubelbank presented a poster paper, “Learning about Use and Evaluation,”at the American Evaluation Association's November 2007 Conference.   The paper shares the experiences of teaching and learning about evaluation in ED467, Curriculum and Program Evaluation.  It concentrates on evaluation use and how understanding of it was translated into practical evaluation activities. 

Carolyn Fidelman
April 2007.  AERA Annual Meeting and Exhibition.  (Ph.D. Candidate at time of award) Carolyn Fidelman’s paper, “Impact of Student Disposition Toward Course Evaluations on Course Ratings: A Pilot Study,” won the AERA Survey Research in Education SIG Graduate Student Award. 

Rachel Kay
Will be presenting "Use of Computer-based and Paper-based Test Preparation: A Survey of the Landscape in Massachusetts" at AERA in March, 2008.

Emilie Mitescu and Yves Salomon-Fernandez
April 2007 - NEERO 39th Annual Conference - Emilie Mitescu, Yves Salomon-Fernandez and Sarah Enterline presented at the NEERO Conference in Portsmouth, NH: “Rethinking Teacher Education: From Teacher Learning to Student Learning” Symposium, with Dr. Larry Ludlow.

Yves Salomon-Fernandez
April 2007 - NEERO 39th Annual Conference - Yves Salomon-Fernandez, Sandra McIntosh, Co-Chair of the Work for Quality Network; and Dr. Patrick McQuillan of Boston College, presented “Mixed Methods Investigation into Teachers’ and Administrators’ Perceptions of State Intervention in MA Public Schools” in the Teaching and Learning in Various Environments paper session.

Yves Salomon-Fernandez and Emilie Mitescu
April 2007 - NEERO 39th Annual Conference - Yves Salomon-Fernandez and Emilie Mitescu presented “A Comparative Analysis of Classroom Practices and Pupil Learning for Teachers from Three Pathways into Teaching,” with Dr. Joseph Pedulla.

Wei Tao
April 2007 - NEERO 39th Annual Conference - Wei Tao presented “Using the Score-based Testlet Method to Handle Local Item Dependence.”

Katie Trong
Dr. Ann Kennedy and Katie Trong  presented: “Examining Gender, Early Literacy Activities, and Fourth Graders' Reading Habits and Attitudes in PIRLS 2001” at the 15th European Conference on Reading in Berlin, Germany (August 5-8, 2007).

Yun Xiang
April 2007 - AERA Annual Meeting and Exhibition: Yun Xiang had two presentations at the AERA conference in Chicago 1) “Why Did Teachers Stay, Move or Leave: A Practical Application of Rasch Model in Teacher Professional Satisfaction” and 2) “The Locus of Teacher Professional Development in Two Nationwide Teacher Surveys: A Comparative Study.”

Jessica Yue
April 2007 - NEERO 39th Annual Conference - Jessica Yue presented, “A Rasch Analysis of Fourth Grader’s Measurement Skill.”