1. Goals for March 4-5 Conference
Further community among MSP evaluators
Address common issues
Provide assistance in analyses
Qualitative analyses
Quantitative analyses
Measurement of teacher content knowledge

2. Adding Value to the MSP Evaluations
Norman Webb, Rob Meyer, and Paula White
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1025 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706
   

3. Project Goals
Increase the knowledge of MSP evaluators about design, indicators, and conditions needed to successfully measure change in student learning over time.
Develop useful tools and designs for evaluators to attribute outcomes to MSP activities.
Apply techniques for analyzing the relationship between student achievement and MSP project activities to evaluate the success of MSP projects.

4. Project Principles
Build on what has been learned about evaluating large-scale systemic reform
Develop a learning community among the MSP evaluators

5. Project Activities
Provide technical assistance to MSP evaluators regarding MSP evaluation challenges.
Two-day semiannual meetings each spring and fall.
Teleconference meetings to identify evaluation needs.
Site visits.
Prototypes for value-added data analyses.
Value-added and an alignment tools.

7. Web Alignment Tool http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/WAT/index.aspx
A process and tool for judging the alignment between standards and assessments.

9. Agenda Thursday AM Introductions, Round Robin, and Issues Thursday PM
Short Courses—Session I
Friday AM
Short Courses—Session II
Friday PM
Assessment of Content and Wrap-up