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A lot of work goes into developing an assessment. At WIDA and the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), teams of language testing experts manage all stages of the test development process, from preparing new test content for field testing to measuring the validity and reliability of test content. (Read our recent article: Everything you’ve ever …
Registration Open Through March 21; Proposals for Breakout Sessions due March 1 Registration is open now through March 21 for the 2024 MSAN Institute, a two-day professional learning conference for K–12 teachers, principals, and school district leaders nationwide who want to learn about current research and district practices that further racial equity in schools. To be held April …
WCER Director Courtney Bell, a UW–Madison School of Education professor of learning sciences, shared insights on standards-based learning in a recent Wisconsin State Journal story about phasing out letter grades in a pilot program underway in some Madison East High School classes. The story explains that instead, students in those classes are being graded on a scale …
Katie Eklund, a professor of educational psychology in UW–Madison’s School of Education, discussed efforts to address the nation’s shortage of school-based mental health professionals in a recent report on the growing issue by PBS Wisconsin that was broadcast nationally on PBS NewsHour. Eklund described how unmet mental health concerns can harm students in school and throughout …
Computer Game Will Use Latest Research to Take Learners to the Furthest Reaches of Space On Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, a small group of select librarians and teachers from across the state will gather with game designers and scientists for a day-long workshop in Madison to develop a new educational computer game that will take learners …
Engineering Professional Societies to Receive New Tools and Resources to Promote DEI Culture Change Driven by the goal of improving the country’s ability to solve complex problems, a partnership led by UW–Madison’s Wei LAB will help engineering societies apply a newly released international standard on diversity and inclusion. It aims to foster STEM disciplinary excellence …
Two WCER Honorees are Among Those Five: Wei LAB’s Shawn Anthony Robinson and MSAN Executive Director Latoya Holiday Madison365’s 2023 list of “Wisconsin’s 51 Most Influential Black Leaders” spotlights five individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education. Those featured are “elected leaders, business leaders, and community leaders, doing difficult, important work, often in …
WIDA MODEL Online Scale Scores Linked to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) WIDA MODEL Online, an English language proficiency assessment for students in grades 1-12, can now be understood on a scale used by educators around the world. In January 2023, WIDA researchers and international educators collaborated to link WIDA MODEL Online scale …
Several Campuses in Universities of Wisconsin System to Adopt Enrollment Change for Next Fall UW–Madison’s Taylor Odle shared his expertise recently on the rise of direct admissions programs in Wisconsin universities and across the nation on WPR’s The Morning Show. Direct admissions is a practice in which colleges proactively offer admission to students based on existing, readily available …
Dozens of High School Students From Across the U.S. Met in Madison for the First Time Since 2019 Nearly 200 high school students and their chaperones/advisors from 19 U.S. school districts were in Madison Nov. 1–4 for the 24th annual MSAN Student Conference, presented by the UW–Madison School of Education (SoE), to develop youth leaders focused on ending …