3:00–3:30 p.m.

Workshop Check-In

3:30–5:30

Workshop: "Aligning Science Assessment Items to Content Standards"
George DeBoer, Deputy Director, AAAS Project 2061, Washington, D.C.

5:30–6:00

Dinner Check-In and Reception

6:00–7:15

Dinner

7:30–8:15 a.m.

Conference Check-In and Breakfast

8:15–8:30

Welcome

8:30–9:30

Assessment and Classroom Instruction
Dylan Wiliam, Director, Learning and Teaching Research Center, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey

9:30–10:15

Assessment in the Laboratory
Arthur Eisenkraft, Distinguished Professor of Science Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston

10:15–10:30

Break

10:30–11:15

Assessing Special-Needs Students
Libby Cohen, Director, ALLTech, The Spurwink Institute, New Gloucester, Maine

12:00–1:15

Lunch

1:15–2:00

Assessment of Skills for the 21st Century
Amelia Maurizio, Director, World Wide Education Alliances Program, SAP, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

2:00–2:45

Systems for Science Assessments
Meryl Bertenthal, Visiting Director of Research Programs, Center for the Study of Learning, Instruction, and Teacher Development, University of Illinois at Chicago

2:45–3:30

Standards-Based Assessments
Kathy Comfort, Director, Partnership for the Assessment of Standards-Based Science, WestEd, San Francisco, California

3:30–4:00

Audience Q&A: "Talking about Assessment" (all speakers)

4:00–4:15

Wrap-Up