Assessment LEARN Workshop

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Tuesday September 16, 2014
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM	Registration
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM	Opening Remarks Missouri Room Beth Mackey, Senior Lead for Language Testing, National Cryptologic School Daniel Scott, Deputy ADNI/Human Capital, ODNI
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Speaking Workshop 1: DLI Missouri Room
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Speaking Workshop 2: FBI Missouri Room
Wednesday September 17, 2014
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Registration
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Speaking Workshop 3: FSI Missouri Room
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Speaking Workshop 4: ILI Missouri Room
Thursday September 18, 2014
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM	Registration
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM	Welcome and Introduction Missouri Room Mark Wolkow, Director of Academic Outreach, Associate Directorate for Education and Training, NSA
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Plenary: The History of the ILR Missouri Room Dr. Maria Brau, Chief, Language Testing and Assessment Unit, FBI Dr. Pardee Lowe, (DoD, Retired)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Break
10:45 AM - 11:20 AM	What Does It Mean to be a Level Four Speaker? Missouri Room Dr. James Bernhardt, Foreign Service Institute	The Importance and Implications of Online Diagnostic Assessment Anderson Room Osama Helmy, Assistant Professor/ODA Arabic Coordinator, Defense Language Institute, Curriculum Development Division
11:20 AM - 11:50 AM	Self-Assessment: An Empowering Tool of Oral Proficiency Enhancement Missouri Room Dr. Salem Elfiky, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center	Development and Validation of New Analyst Assessments Anderson Room Dr. Shonna Waters, National Security Agency Dr. Matt Allen, National Security Agency
11:50 AM - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:35 PM	Mapping ILR Skill Level Descriptions to an Assessment Metric for the DLPT5 Missouri Room Heeyeon Dennison, DLIFLC	Interactive Papers Anderson Room Tilting at Scales Beth Mackey, DoD Dr. Laura Murray, NCS A Quantitative Study of Comparing the Effects of Curriculum Reform on Student Performance in Defense Language Institute Aziz Popal, DLI Students’ Language Learning Experience in a Study Abroad (OCONUS) Program in Korea Jean Ryu Interpreter Qualifications DoD Assessment Strategies in Basic Language Program at DLIFLC Svetlana Pavlov, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Diagnostics and Mentoring to Improve Translation Performance Stephanie Stauffer, FBI Using Translation to Assess Reading Joel Koeth, DoD
1:35 PM - 2:05 PM	Realistically Evaluating Arabic on the Interagency Language Roundtable Scale Missouri Room Dr. Mohsen Fahmy, Professor, OPI Education Specialist, DLIFLC
2:05 PM - 2:30 PM	Break
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Testing Arabic Speaking and the Dialect/MSA Shift Panel Missouri Room
Friday September 19, 2014
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Registration
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Welcome and Introduction Missouri Room
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM	Plenary Session: Using Program Evaluation for Understanding and Improving Language Education Missouri Room Dr. John M. Norris, Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, Georgetown University
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Assessing Task-Based Instruction Missouri Room Irene Krasner, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center	Workshop: Assessing Translation Skills in Accordance with the ILR Skill Level Descriptions (includes lunch break) Anderson Room Dr. Maria Brau, Chief, Language Testing and Assessment Unit, FBI
11:00 AM - 11:35 AM	Assessing Students’ Language Ability Based on Authentic Tasks Missouri Room ILI
11:35 AM - 12:55 PM	Lunch
12:55 PM - 1:30 PM	Task Based Assessment and the ALERT Course Missouri Room Tanya Matar, FSI
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM	How Do We Engage and Prepare Learners to Perform Authentic Tasks Successfully Missouri Room ILI
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Break
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM	Assessing English Panel Missouri Room
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM	Closing Missouri Room

Assessment LEARN Workshop

Sep 16-19, 2014 National 4-H Youth Conference Center Chevy Chase, MD

Agenda

Sep 16-19, 2014
National 4-H Youth Conference Center
Chevy Chase, MD