2006-07 CONFERENCES
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
October 26-29, 2006, Portland, Oregon
http://www.podnetwork.org/conferences/2006/index.htm#Overview
2006 POD Conference
This year's conference will offer a wide variety of sessions on instructional development best practices, research, and evaluation. Each session is attached to one or more tracks. These tracks include:
Assessment and Evaluation
Diversity
Faculty and Instructional Development
Graduate Student Professional Development
Learning Theories and Research
Organizational Development
Small Colleges
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
STEM
Technology
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The 2006 Assessment Institute
October 29-31, 2006, Indianapolis, Indiana
http://www.planning.iupui.edu/conferences/national/nationalconf.html
Continuing the traditions, The 2006 Assessment Institute will present sessions with national assessment leaders, the Best Practices Fair, and additional learning opportunities emphasizing:
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The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning
November 17-18, 2006, Bloomington, Minnesota
http://www.collab.org/index.htm
Motivating Students for Better Retention, Learning, and Achievement
Join your colleagues for The Collaboration’s Fall 2006 conference on motivation and retention, taking place November 17-18, 2006, at the Bloomington Sheraton Hotel, Bloomington, Minnesota. This conference will showcase effective strategies that can increase student learning and retention and assist students in becoming self-motivated learners. Watch for the conference brochure in early August.
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Curtin University of Technology - Evaluation and Assessment Conference 2006
November 30 - December 1, 2006, Australia
http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/eac2006/
Enhancing Student Learning
The theme of 'enhancing student learning' is an opportunity to explore how the increased focus on evaluation and assessment is influencing student learning. Participants in the conference are encouraged to explore the substantive changes that have been made through evaluation and assessment, and to find evidence that they are indeed making a difference to students' learning outcomes.
Integrating learning, teaching and assessment
Assessment to promote student learning
Discipline based practices in evaluation and assessment
Innovations through technology
Evaluating outcomes at the course or program level
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Texas Assessment Conference
December 10-13, 2006, Austin, TX
http://www.tasanet.org/conferences/eventsdetail.cfm?ItemNumber=1126&snItemNumber=674
At a new time and place, December 11–14 at the Austin Hilton Hotel, the Texas Assessment Conference celebrates its 20th year. It remains the only statewide conference in Texas specially dedicated to assessment and testing in education. The conference brings together a unique combination of teachers, counselors, school administrators, assessment coordinators, college-level personnel, and testing specialists, along with staff from the Texas Education Agency and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Conference topics cover a broad spectrum of assessment issues, accountability issues, the latest information on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), alternative assessment systems for special education and limited-English-proficient (LEP) students, college/university testing issues, best practices from districts, and more.
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Association of American Colleges and Universities
January 17-20, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm
THE REAL TEST: Liberal Education and Democracy’s Big Questions
Efforts to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast continue to raise questions that test our ability and commitment to put into practice the outcomes of a liberal education. How do we learn from past experiences, identify problems and opportunities, and implement credible solutions? How should we direct our efforts to prepare students to be responsible citizens and leaders in times both of crisis and relative tranquility? How do we apply the lessons of Katrina and Rita to the complex contexts of our own local communities and institutional missions?
As AAC&U’s Board of Directors noted last year, “New Orleans represents a valuable opportunity for the nation—and its colleges and universities—to reflect on the root issues that make many Americans especially vulnerable in times of catastrophe.” As David Brooks put it, "Floods wash away the surface of society. . . .They expose the underlying power structures . . . and the unacknowledged inequalities."
The society we are creating represents the real test—of our democratic aspirations, our educational effectiveness, and our core commitments.
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The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning
February 16-17, 2007, Bloomington, Minnesota
http://www.collab.org/index.htm
Conference on the Changing Global Context for Learning
As the world we live, study, and work in becomes ever more globally integrated, and competition for students intensifies in reaction to changing demographics, higher education institutions are facing new challenges to their identities and strategic goals. This conference will explore the implications of these changes and other factors affecting colleges and universities, including current trends in study abroad, language acquisition and cross-cultural competencies, and implications of new immigrant populations. The Call for Proposals will be available in August; proposal deadline September 22.
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Texas A&M Assessment Conference
February 22-23, 2007, College Station, Texas
http://www.tamu.edu/qep/test/conference/
The 7th annual Texas A&M Assessment Conference will be held February 22 and 23, 2007 in College Station, Texas. The theme of the conference, which will be of interest to anyone involved in assessment in higher education, is Building Assessment Capacity: Foundation to Fruition.
Nationally known invited speakers and presenters include:
* Linda Suskie, Executive Associate Director, Middle States Commission on Higher Education
* Stephen Spangehl, Director, Academic Quality Improvement Program, North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, The Higher Learning Commission
* Geri Malandra, Associate Vice Chancellor, Institutional Planning and Accountability, University of Texas System
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Network for Academic Renewal Conference
March 1-3, 2007, Miami, Florida
http://www.aacu-edu.org/meetings/generaleducation/index.cfm
General Education and Assessment will address issues central to creating and assessing a coherent general education curriculum that fosters increasingly sophisticated learning outcomes and integrates learning across the disciplines and majors. It will provide participants with recent research on student learning outcomes and their value in opening doors beyond college. It will also explore the most promising practices in general education, including those related to the educational change process, pedagogy, curriculum design, assessment, and transfer and articulation.
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American Educational Research Association (AERA)
April 19-13. 2007, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.aera.net/annualmeeting/?id=1399
The World of Education Quality
The theme highlights the importance of attending to educational systems and education research outside the United States. There are efforts around the globe, in both developed and developing nations, to reform educational systems, improve equity of access and opportunity, and strengthen student learning. Many of the reform attempts show similarities to recent initiatives in the United States, but others are quite distinctive. Some of reform accomplishments-in improving literacy and educational mobility, for example-have been dramatic. Knowledge gained in one nation or setting may have implications for policy and practice in many others, and researchers and policymakers increasingly recognize the importance of a comparative perspective on education and education research. This Call for Proposals encourages work that looks beyond our own borders.
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Association of American Colleges and Universities
April 19-21, 2007, Long Beach, California
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/undergraduate_research/index.cfm
The Student as Scholar: Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice
This working conference will examine strategies for developing effective undergraduate research programs that foster in students sophisticated skills in analysis, discovery, and problem-solving. The meeting will present a variety of approaches to undergraduate education that embrace and educate our students as scholars – preparing them not only to be active members in the campus community of scholars, but also preparing students to be informed, engaged citizens and successful professionals in an increasingly complex and diverse world.
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Association for Institutional Research
June 2-6, 2007, Kansas City, Missouri
http://airweb.org/p.asp?page=4
Choice/Chance: Driving Change in Higher Education
Higher education, long recognized as a leader in the creation and dissemination of knowledge and its innovative application, is now challenged by its own success to remain competitive, to remain creative, to be accountable, and to be responsive to emerging public demands. Successfully meeting these expectations means change. Change that at times is driven by choice motivated to reinvent the institution, and at other times, by chance and the desire to minimize its risk or capitalize on its opportunity.
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