7th Annual Connecticut Data Conference
April 24th & 25th 2012
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cromwell, CT
Registration Fee: $75.00 per day
Day 1 - April 24th, 2012
7:30 A.M.
Keynote Speaker: Karin Hess
Day 2 - April 25th, 2012
7:30 A.M.
Keynote Speaker: Tony Alpert
Karin Hess
Senior Associate
The National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc.
Registration for the Conference and Data Wall Submissions is closed.
For more information, please contact the EASTCONN Conference Office at
conferenceoffice@eastconn.org or call 860-455-1533.
For more information, please contact the EASTCONN Conference Office at
conferenceoffice@eastconn.org or call 860-455-1533.
Senior Associate
The National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc.
Dr. Karin Hess, Senior Associate at the National Center for Assessment since 2002,
brings to the Center’s work over 30 years of deep experience in curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
She has become a recognized national leader in developing practical approaches for designing and using learning progressions as a foundation for
formative, interim, and performance assessments. Dr. Hess has distinguished herself as a content and curriculum and assessment expert in multiple
content areas and has effectively guided many states in the development of the grade level expectations for both general education and significantly
cognitively disabled students. Dr. Hess’s experiences as a state director of gifted and talented education for New Jersey and as
a district curriculum director, building principal, and classroom teacher enable her to understand the practical implications of her work
while maintaining fidelity to guiding research, technical quality, and established best practices.
In addition to experiences as a classroom teacher (15 years) and school administrator,
Dr. Hess has worked as a program evaluator for the Vermont Mathematics Project; as a content specialist for development of
the Vermont Science assessment; and as the co-developer and editor of Science Exemplars (www.exemplars.com ).
Dr Hess has authored and co-authored numerous books, book chapters, articles, and white papers related to
instructional practices, alignment, cognitive rigor, and assessment. (Some papers can be found at www.nciea.org .)
Keynote: [Tentative title] "Instructional Strategies in Vocabulary Development and Writing in Response to Text"
Tony Alpert
Chief Operating Officer, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Registration for the Conference and Data Wall Submissions is closed.
For more information, please contact the EASTCONN Conference Office at
conferenceoffice@eastconn.org or call 860-455-1533.
For more information, please contact the EASTCONN Conference Office at
conferenceoffice@eastconn.org or call 860-455-1533.
Chief Operating Officer, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Tony Alpert currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the
SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). The SBAC is comprised of 29
member states that are funded by the U.S. Department of Education to
create an assessment that will measure students' career and college
readiness through a balanced approach that includes a summative and
interim computer adaptive test, complex performance tasks and formative
assessment tools and processes. Prior to serving as SBAC's Chief Operating
Officer, Mr. Alpert served as the Director of Assessment and
Accountability for Oregon and oversaw its online computer adaptive test
used for state and federal accountability. In addition, he was a member of
the U.S. Department of Education's Technical Advisory Committee and has
served as a peer reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education's peer
review process.
Keynote: TBD