COVID's Impact on Assessments Webinars

COVID’s Impact on Assessments

2020 is a unique year. Not only is COVID-19 impacting our everyday lives in many ways, it is also leading to some short-term and potentially long-term changes to assessment practices and the measurement field. In this NCME webinar series, practitioners and researchers will discuss the assessment challenges associated with the pandemic and identify best practice solutions to them. We encourage all measurement and assessment professionals to participate!

All webinars are offered on Thursdays, 3:30‒5:00 pm EST, beginning January 14, 2021.

January 2021

Date	Types of Assessment	Facilitator	Session Title	Speakers
January 14	K–12	Ellen Forte	Test Design, Score Use, and Interpretations: Implications of the Pandemic (Watch on YouTube)	Allison Timberlake, Georgia Department of Education Vince Verges, Florida Department of Education Jennifer Dunn, Questar Assessment, Inc.
January 21	K–12 Licensure/Certification	Ye Tong	Unmasking Equating Challenges (Watch on YouTube)	Bob Lee, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Jen Beimers & Sarah Quesen, Pearson Amanda Wolkowitz, Alpine Testing Solutions Mike Kolen, University of Iowa
January 28	K–12	Marianne Perie	When Standard Setting Must Go On… (Watch on YouTube)	Casey Haugner, Tennessee Department of Education Marianne Perie, Measurement in Practice, LLC Eric Moyer, Pearson Karla Egan, EdMetric LLC

February 2021

Date	Types of Assessment	Facilitator	Session Title	Speakers
February 4	K–12	Susan Davis-Becker	Are we ready for Remote Administration and Proctoring with K–12 Students? (Watch on YouTube)	Jennifer Dugan, Minnesota Department of Education Viji Somasundaram, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Jennifer Judkins, Maryland State Department of Education Ye Tong, Pearson
February 11	K–12	Marianne Perie	Interim Assessment in the COVID World (Watch on YouTube)	Maria Harris, Oklahoma Department of Education Patrick Meyer, NWEA Kristen Huff, Curriculum Associates Marianne Perie, Measurement in Practice, LLC
February 18	K–12	Ellen Forte	K–12 Assessments for Special Populations in the Time of COVID (Watch on YouTube)	Audra Ahumada Arizona Department of Education Toni Wheeler, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Molly Faulkner-Bond, WestEd Sheryl Lazarus, The TIES Center and the National Center on Educational Outcomes at the University of Minnesota
February 25	Licensure/Certification	Susan Davis-Becker	Remote Administration and Proctoring in Credentialing Exams: Opportunities and Challenges. (Watch on YouTube)	Jim Wollack, University of Wisconsin – Madison Kimberly Swygert, NBME Liberty Munson, Microsoft Worldwide Learning Amin Saiar, PSI Services

March 2021

Date	Types of Assessment	Facilitator	Session Title	Speakers
March 4	Licensure/Certification	Susan Davis-Becker	In Response to a Pandemic: COVID’s Impact on Credentialing Policies and Designs (Watch on YouTube)	Phil Dickison, National Council of State Boards of Nursing Judith Gundersen, National Conference of Bar Examiners Pooja Shivraj, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
March 11	Other Exams	Marianne Perie	Other Assessments: How Has the Pandemic Affected Them? (Watch on YouTube)	Dianne Henderson, ACT Alina von Davier, Duolingo April Zenisky, University of Massachusetts Kadriye Ercikan, ETS
March 18	All Assessments	Ye Tong	Assessments in the Near and Far Future (Watch on YouTube)	Jennifer Randall, University of Massachusetts Lorrie Shepard, University of Colorado Andrew Ho, Harvard University

COVID's Impact on Assessments Webinars