1. Formative Assessment: A Process to Support Teaching and Learning Thursday December 9, 2010 4:00 PM Eastern Time Conference Call Logistics  Your phones are muted by the WebEx system  If you get disconnected from the teleconference, please click on the WebEx Info tab for the call-in number and access code  If you want to pose a question or comment for our speakers, look for the docked panel on the lower right and click on the question mark

2. Formative Assessment: A Process to Support Teaching and Learning Presenter: Margaret Heritage Commentator: Joan Herman In the invitational webinar series Performance Assessment for the Next Generation of State Assessment Programs Hosted by CTB/McGraw-Hill December 9, 2010

3. One hour session  45 minutes for presentation and commentary  15 minutes for questions, comments, and responses  Please use the chat function in WebEx to send questions and comments to me  I’ll pose your questions and comments to the speakers in the Q&A session at the end

4. Introductions  Margaret Heritage, Assistant Director for Professional Development at CRESST Schools in the UK and US; University of Warwick, England, Stanford, and UCLA Focus: practice and effectiveness of classroom formative assessment, assessment for learning Latest book, Formative Assessment: Making It Happen in the Classroom (2010), Corwin Press  Joan Herman, Director, CRESST Hundreds of presentations and participation on expert panels. Publications on a range of topics in assessment for learning. Recent highlights: – Herman et al. (in review). Capturing quality in formative assessment practice: Measurement challenges. Assessment in Education. – Herman, J. L. & Baker, E.L. (2009) Assessment policy: Making sense of the Babel. In D. Plank, G. Sykes, & B. Schneider (eds) AERA Handbook on Education Policy. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE publications.

5. Reminder  Please use the chat function in WebEx to send questions and comments to me  I’ll pose your questions and comments to the speakers in the Q&A session at the end

6. Q&A

7. This was the final session in the Next Generation series You can download slides and view all nine sessions at ctb.com Please stay tuned for follow-up activities Possibilities under discussion: Synthesis and next steps discussion meeting Topic-specific white papers If you have requests or ideas, please email me: steve_ferrara@ctb.com And thanks so much for joining us!