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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Workshop Speakers
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Workshop Speakers
Pages 84-94
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At HumRRO, he is currently directing an evaluation of California's high school graduation test and a project to provide quality assurance for NAEP. Prior to joining HumRRO, he directed research and development on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
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She has been an adjunct instructor at the Baltimore City Community College, Coppin State College, Towson University, and Johns Hopkins University. She has taught courses in early childhood education, elementary education, and educational supervision and leadership.
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Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities study section and is a former member of the NICHD Maternal and Child Health study section. He recently served on the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education and is a member of the NICHD National Advisory Council.
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During a 30-year career in public education, she has maintained a singular focus: developing and supporting professionals and creating institutional environments that develop the potential of all students to achieve high levels of academic excellence, especially those who have been traditionally underserved by the public education system. She has written and lectured widely on issues related to the education of diverse populations, especially in the areas of academic tracking, the power of teacher expectations, and the role of mathematics as a critical factor in opening pathways to success for minority and poor students.
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David Klahr is a professor and former head of the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research focuses on cognitive development, scientific reasoning, and cognitively based instructional interventions in early science education.
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Over the past 10 years, she has worked on a wide variety of education studies at the NRC and has provided assistance for several reports, including Scientific Research in Education, Knowing What Students Know, and the National Science Education Standards. WORKSHOP SPEAKERS Diane August is currently an independent consultant as well as a senior research scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC.
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In the field of special education, he has been involved in programs that improve results for students with disabilities. For the past 26 years, he has held leadership roles in OSEP and is currently responsible for the discretionary grants program, including research, technical assistance and dissemination, personnel preparation, technology, and parent training priorities, national evaluation activities, and other major policy-related studies.
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Hakel is the Ohio Board of Regents eminent scholar in industrial and organizational psychology at Bowling Green State University. His research focuses on leadership development, performance appraisal, job analysis and compensation, and employee selection.
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Within NIH, he has held positions in the Office of Science Policy, the Division of Intramural Research in the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) , the Center for Scientific Review (where he helped implement the reorganization of the study sections that review neuroscience grant applications)
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Department of Education by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. The institute conducts, supports, and disseminates research on education practices that improve academic achievement, statistics on the condition of education in the United States, and evaluations of the effectiveness of federal and other education programs.
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