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Last Date to Register: 10/11/2012 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 10/5/2012 12:01 AM
Agency: CESA 2
Agency Contact: Tracy Elger
Agency Assistant: Sharon Anderson 608-436-0638
Location: CESA 2 - Whitewater
1221 Innovation Drive
Whitewater, WI 53190
Facility: Room 111
Date/Time:
10/8/2012 08:30 AM - 02:00 PM 8:00-registration
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School Psychologists and other interested staff are invited to attend a psychology update with Kathryn Bush, DPI School Psychologist. This will be a fast-paced lecture with slides, handouts, discussion, and activities. Please encourage school psychologists who have never been to one of these network meetings to attend. In a rapidly changing field, professional development is key.

Morning Session: Measuring Growth for RtI and the Wisconsin’s SLD Rule:
Most Wisconsin school psychologists were trained before there were two ways to measure growth in student educational
outcomes. We tend to know and understand Curriculum Based Measures (CBMs) to some extent, but we tend to know little
about Computer Adaptive Testing (CATs), and the underlying Item Response Theory (IRT). Learn how the underlying
assumptions of IRT are vastly different from what we know based on our training in classical test theory. Learn how CATs
and CBMs are used for measuring growth in multi-leveled systems of support, their strengths and weaknesses, and their
potential for use in Wisconsin’s specific learning disabilities rule.
 
Afternoon Session: Advanced Applications of Curriculum Based Measures, Especially Written Language Measures:
We will review commercially available and public domain measures for progress monitoring student academic outcomes.
We will compare and contract measures in six of the eight areas of SLD. We will focus on written expression, learn the
scoring rules for measures of written expression, and achieve inter-rater reliability with another colleague on Words Written
Correctly. We will discuss the possibility of collecting written expression benchmarking data in our districts.
 

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