Annual Symposium Proceedings

Each year NATD produces an Annual Proceeding. One purpose of these proceedings is to disseminate important information about testing issues to practitioners in schools.  We have a number of back issues available for order. If you want any of the following issues, please send $10 and the year of issue to:
Joe O'Reilly, 549 North Stapley Drive, Mesa AZ 85203.

• 2004 Proceedings: The Achievement Gap: Test Bias or School Structures
• 2003 Proceedings:NCLB One Year Into Implementation
• 2002 Proceedings: What Will Be the Effects on Assessment and Accountability in Local School Districts of the “No Child Left Behind Legislation”?
• 2001 Proceedings: Test Security in a High Stakes Environment: Myth or Reality?
• 2000 Proceedings: Standards – Assessments – Instructional Improvement
  The Golden Triangle of American Education
• 1999 Proceedings: Issues and Trends in Inclusive Assessment Practices
• 1998 Proceedings: Revisiting the Issue of Measuring and Reporting Student Growth in an Era of Standards Based Reform (Coming Soon)
• 1997 Proceedings: The Rasch Tiger Ten Years Later: Using IRT Techniques To Measure Achievement In Schools
• 1996 Proceedings: Current Issues in Test Administration
• 1995 Proceedings: Performance Assessment in the Brave New World of Continuous Quality Improvement: Perspectives from Business, Curriculum Development & Testing
• 1994 Proceedings: Guiding Principles for Performance Assessment
• 1993 Proceedings: (Testing...Testing...) Do we know we are going? Have we been here before? The scoop from P.O.O.P.P's; Objectifying the Subjective: Rubrics, Scoring guides, and Other Ways of Knowing
• 1992 Proceedings: National Assessment in England and Wales; Alternative Assessments in Practice: Perspectives on Issues and Problems
• 1991 Proceedings: More Authentic Assessment: Theory and practice; Measurement Issues in Performance Assessment; Local, State, National and International Indicator Systems: Will we know where we are if we get there?
• 1990 Proceedings: Issues in Large Scale Assessment Programs
• 1989 Proceedings: Beyond the Wall Chart: Indicators and school ranking; Dog-eared Reports are the Best of the Breed: Recognizing and rewarding evaluation utilization; Standardized Tests at the Pre-school Level: Do they tell us the truth about children?
• 1988 Proceedings: Customization of a National Standardized Achievement Test; Multi-layered Testing in the Los Angeles Unified School District
• 1987 Proceedings: Perspectives on Public Reporting of Test Results; Student Achievement Comparison Among States:
  Issues and status; Riding the Rasch Tiger; The Testing Octopus: A tentacle for curriculum, or, How do you dance with a octopus? ; Who's in Charge of Testing Now? or, A system used to consolidate testing throughout a district.
• 1986 Proceedings: Legitimate Ways to Prepare Students for Standardized Tests; Taming the Rasch Tiger: Using item response theory in practical educational measurement.
• 1985 Proceedings: Cheating on Standardized Tests: Issues and Problems in Large City Schools; Guidelines and Principles for National Test Norming Studies

Newsletters

Our library of past newsletters is contained below.  The two most recent newsletters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. See the link below the table to obtain Acrobat if you need it. There are some time gaps so we probably do not have them all. Are there any "collectors" out there who have missing hard copies that we can scan and add?
 

Miscellaneous

Annual Meeting Summary