1. UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing The ABC’s of Communications Ron Dietel CRESST Senior Researchers Meeting Los Angeles, CA - May 3, 2006 If you choose to use this title slide, simply delete the next slide (the two-line title version). This will be slide 1 of your presentation.

2. 2/12 Presentation Do’s and Don’ts 666 Rule 6 bullets max 6 words per bullet 6 information points on graphics

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5. 5/12 Many Words “Specifically, we consider how the ABC could support teachers in assessing and improving their own practice, highlighting features that are directly relevant to use of the ABC for professional development purposes by drawing on what we learned from training educators unfamiliar with the ABC in an intensive Assessment Basic Cognitive Rater Training Program during a pilot study in the spring of 2005.”

6. 6/12 Few Words Does the ABC improve assessment and teaching?

7. 7/12 Long Title “ Form Effects on the Estimation of Students’ Progress in Oral Reading Fluency Using Curriculum-based Measurement”

8. 8/12 Short Title Form Effects on Students’ Reading Fluency

9. 9/12 APA Style Manual “Short words and short sentences are easier to comprehend than long ones.”

10. 10/12 Writing Suggestions Write like a reporter Limit sentence length <25 words Use active voice Simplify your words Ask a non-researcher to read your article

11. 11/12 APA Says… The author who is frugal with words not only writes a more readable manuscript but also increases the chances that the manuscript will be accepted for publication.

12. 12/12 next presentation To adjust the slide numbering, do the following: 1.Go to the VIEW menu, MASTER, and select SLIDE MASTER 2.In the lower right, change the number 28 to your number of slides 3.Do not change the character. It generates the auto-numbers. ©2006 Regents of the University of California