Conference Schedule
Registration, meals, and all sessions will take place on the 2nd floor of the Modern Languages Building on the campus of Emory University.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
10:30 - 12:30: Registration (Room 201, Modern Languages Building)
11:30 - 12:15: Lunch (included with conference registration)
12:15 - 12:30: Welcome
Session I: Useful Assessment of Study Abroad
12:30 - 12:50: Assessing cultural identification and acculturation to promote cultural sensitivity on a short-term study abroad program.
Jeongyi Lee & Kathy Negrelli (Kennesaw State University)
12:50 - 1:10: Pro Itu ed Reditu: A proposed qualitative assessment of a summer studies abroad program.
Judy Raggi-Moore (Emory University)
1:10 - 1:30: A skype-mediated telecollaboration between the U.S. and Japan: Assessing the outcomes and student perceptions.
Kathy Negrelli (Kennesaw State University)
1:30 - 1:50: Discussion of Session I
1:50 - 2:10: Break
Session II: Programmatic Approaches to Useful Assessment
2:10 - 2:30: Lessons from a quantitative, standardized assessment of evidence-focused first-year-seminars at a liberal arts university.
Tracy Scott (Emory University)
2:30 - 2:50: Critical pedagogy and self-assessment: Powerful tools for empowering learners.
Robert Davis & Claudia Holguin Mendoza (University of Oregon)
2:50 - 3:10: Developing the assessment literacy of university language faculty: The way ahead.
Mary Jo DiBiase-Lubrano (Yale University)
3:10 - 3:30: An examination of high-scoring World Language edTPA portfolios: Using IPAs to assess student learning.
Elizabeth Goulette (Georgia State University)
3:30 - 3:50: Discussion of Session II
4:15 - 5:15: Keynote: Assessment literacy for college language and humanities educators: Getting from ‘why’ to ‘how’.
John Norris (Educational Testing Services)
5:15 - 6:30: Reception (included with conference registration)
Sunday, October 29, 2017
8:30 - 9:00: Breakfast (included with conference registration)
Symposium
9:00 - 10:30: Language and student success: Identifying ways to explain outcomes in the IHE context.
Erin Kearney (University of Buffalo), Meg Malone (ACTFL), Fernando Rubio (University of Utah), Michael Bacon (Portland Public Schools), Cori Crane (Duke University), Ali Moeller (University of Nebraska), Amye Sukapdjo (Independent Consultant), Sylvia Peart (USNA)
10:30 - 10:50: Break
Session III: Useful Assessment and the Learner
10:45 - 11:05: Assessing the language learning activity through Instagram based on learners’ perceptions.
Sujeong Choi (Emory University)
11:05 - 11:25: Embedded L2 assessment: Reading to blog and blogging to read.
Lindsy Myers (University of Missouri-Kansas City) & Stephanie Pellet (Wake Forest University)
11:25 - 11:45: Engaging upper‐level language students in oral proficiency assessment to improve learning.
Christina Agostinelli-Fucile (Northeastern University)
11:45 - 12:05: Assessing transformed practice in literacy-based FL classrooms: The critical role of reflection.
Kristen Michelson (Texas Tech University) & Elyse Petit (Vanderbilt University)
12:05 - 12:30: Discussion of Session III
12:30 - 1:15: Lunch (included with conference registration)
1:15 - 3:00: Business meeting for CUALHE Advisory Board members