Mapping Student Success-Using Student Growth Data to Meet Every Student Where They Are! (PowerPoint) and Reporting Tools Sherry DeSimone, Senior Account Executive for Major Accounts | NWEA.

MAG Assessing the CCS Participants Guide Fall 2011 (.pdf) and Assessing the Common Core Standards Fall 2011 Christina Fritz, Senior Account Manager for Content, Riverside Publishing Company

MAG Clearinghouse(PowerPoint), Pitroff DAADS Overview RttT Projects MAG Presentation, Student Growth, A Look at PARCC & MD CCC Frameworks (PowerPoint) and Educator Effectiveness Maryland State Department of Education

Talking About Nonfiction. Maria Nichols

Thomas Learning Progressions and CCCF (PowerPoint) and Thomas Truths of Data Analysis Ronald Thomas, Towson University

MSA Prediction Models / MSA Monitoring Tools (PowerPoint) Vasuki Rethinam

Portfolios as a Measure of Student Growth (PowerPoint) Roann Tsakalas

TEST ITEM BANK SYSTEM AND COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TEST SYSTEM (PowerPoint) Clayton Best, Local Accountability Coordinator (LAC) Liaison, Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Accountability and Assessment

Overview of Artificial Intelligence and Automated Scoring Technologies: Capabilities Across Subject Areas Tied to the Common Core (PowerPoint) Karen Lochbaum, Pearson

The Breakthrough Center "The Right People, The Right Services, The Right Time" (Powerpoint) Robert Glascock, Executive Director Maryland State Department of Education, and Edward Ryans Ed.D,Turnaround Director Prince Georges County Public Schools

"Instructional Approaches and Strategies to Foster Critical Thinking" (.pdf) and Fostering Critical Thinking Handout (.pdf) Mary Alice Wyatt, M.Ed.; Patricia O’Malley, Ph.D.

Survey of Research on Automated Scoring of Short, Written Responses (PowerPoint) Derrick Higgins, Research Director, Natural Language Processing and Speech Group, Educational Testing Service

Adequate Yearly Progress Grades 3-8.(AYP 101)(PowerPoint) Matt Dammann, Ed.D Maryland State Department of Education

Adequate Yearly Progress Grades High School.(AYP 102)(PowerPoint) Doug Strader, Division of Accountability and Assessment, Maryland State Department of Education

Growth, Value-Added and Teacher Effectiveness Measures (PowerPoint) Philip R. Fletcher, Senior Research Scientist, Pearson