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| Director, Institute for Assessment and Evaluation |
| University of Tennessee |
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Dr. Gary Skolits became Director of The University of Tennessee's Institute for Assessment and Evaluation (IAE) on January 1, 2006. Previously, he served as a Senior Research Associate in the Institute for four years. Prior to joining IAE, Gary served for 18 years as Dean of Planning, Research, and Assessment and Assistant Vice President for Academics at Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee. |
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| His work outside the educational sector includes positions with Miami-Dade Metro Government (1977-1980) and Philips Consumer Electronics (1981-1983). Besides directing IAE and several of its evaluation projects at the P-12 and higher education levels, Gary is working with Russ French to apply work sample methodology at the community college level and as a component in federally funded projects requiring evidence of changed instruction and learning outcomes. |
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| Associate Dean for Outreach Alliances, Watson School of Education |
| University of North Carolina,
Wilmington |
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| Karen Wetherill has worked
extensively with university-school
partnerships, providing leadership
to move these collaborative
efforts to higher, more meaningful
standards and to explicitly
address student learning outcomes.
During the 16-year partnership,
which has expanded to include
state agencies, businesses
and other professional organizations,
the Watson School has gained
national prominence for these
collaborative efforts and
for its work with technology
and accountability systems.
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| Dr. Wetherill
has been instrumental in the
development of a technology-enhanced
assessment system to connect
teaching and learning and
provide an effective vehicle
for collecting and assessing
performance evidence that
informs the Watson School,
programs, faculty, students,
and P-12 partners. The use
of Teacher Work Samples has
been integral over the years
in the assessment initiatives
and has been creatively used
to inform teaching and program
decisions. She has been actively
involved in writing and directing
state, federal and private
grants totaling over $7 million.
Many of these grants have
provided significant research
and development initiatives
that are informing regional,
state and national collaborative
efforts to improve education.
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| Senior Program and Policy Director |
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| Academy for Educational Development (AED) |
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Robin White
has worked in the design,
implementation, and evaluation
of education reform and
improvement efforts for
more than 20 years. As senior
program and policy director
for the AED National Institute
for Work and Learning, she
specializes in program evaluation
as well as technical assistance
and capacity building related
to research, evaluation,
and performance measurement.
In the past 10 years, she
has conducted site visits
in more than a dozen states,
providing technical assistance
and leading case study teams
for a variety of research
projects and evaluations.
Ms. White currently directs
AED's technical support
for the 11 post-secondary
institutions selected to
participate in Teachers
for a New Era, a foundation-funded
effort to transform teacher
preparation. She also coordinates
state activities for the
U.S. Department of Education's
Performance Measurement
Initiative, which seeks
to identify the next generation
of secondary and post-secondary
performance measures and
accountability systems.
From 2000 to 2004, Ms.
White served as co-director
and lead author of the National
Assessment of Vocational
Education funding and accountability
study. She also directed
a study of curriculum integration
models for the National
Research Center for Career
and Technical Education.
Previously she led AED's
technical assistance to
the Grantmakers Evaluation
Network, directed AED's
partnership with MPR Associates
on efforts to enhance the
research and evaluation
skills of state and local
educators, and co-authored
the annual analyses of school-to-work
performance measures for
the U.S. departments of
Education and Labor. |
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| Director of Teacher Education |
| American Association of State Colleges and Universities |
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| Mona S. Wineburg is Director of Teacher Education at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) in Washington, D.C. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park in Teacher Education and has experienced education from a variety of vantage points: Director of Teacher Education at American University, teacher education program approval specialist for the Maryland State Department of Education, teacher educator in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park, classroom teacher, and school-wide learning specialist in special education in K-12 schools. |
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AT AASCU, she designs research and development projects, directs the Christa McAuliffe Excellence in Teacher Education Award Program, and works collaboratively with other divisions on teacher education policy and legislation. Dr. Wineburg's most recent project, reported on in the Journal of Teacher Education (January/February 2006) was a survey examining the state of knowledge and practice about how universities provide evidence of the effectiveness of their programs to schools, parents, policy makers, and the public, part of a larger project on evidence and accountability. |
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| Professor of Educational Studies and Teacher Education, University of Cincinnati |
| Research Director, Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership |
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| Robert J. Yinger was Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Educational Psychology at Baylor University from 1998 to 2005. He has published over 80 articles and book chapters in the areas of professional knowledge, teacher cognition, teacher education, and professional standards. His current scholarship focuses on the relationship of the professions to democratic social institutions and to civil society.
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| Dr. Yinger received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1977 and has held appointments as Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Distinguished Scholar at the University of Alberta, Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Noted Scholar and External Examiner at the University of Hong Kong, and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Yinger is past Chair of the Board of Directors for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and past President of the Holmes Partnership. |
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