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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 133-136

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From page 133...
... He is a past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and of the International Language Testing Association and is currently coeditor, with Charles Alderson, of the Cambridge Language Assessment Series. He was the first winner of the TESOL/ Newbury House Award for Outstanding Research, has won the Modern Language Association of Americaís Kenneth Mildenberger Award for outstanding research publication twice, and has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Language Testing Association.
From page 134...
... She has trained staff, teachers, and administrators, both in the South Pacific and the United States, in areas including linking assessment to instruction and intervention; strategies and tactics for effective instruction; curriculum modification for students with disabilities; intervention and teacher assistance teams; authentic and curriculum-based evaluation; instructional environment evaluation; collaborative teaching; strategies for difficult-to-manage students; and accountability and assessment practices. Judith Anderson Koenig is a senior program officer with the NRC's Board on Testing and Assessment and has worked on a number of projects related to NAEP as well as projects on teacher licensing and adult literacy.
From page 135...
... His research focuses on modeling of the interaction of persons and test items; multidimensional models of the persons item interaction; and computer applications to measurement of cognitive skills. He has numerous publications on requirements, values, validity, appropriateness, reliability, computerization, and modeling of assessment.
From page 136...
... During her career, she has been active in various professional organizations and has served as president of the National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education. Her current responsibilities are varied and complex but they all have the goal of insuring that schools in Texas provide appropriate and successful educational programs for students of limited English proficiency.


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