Resources
Recent Presentations
Agao, L., Bunn, C., Lagunoff, R. & Marshall, B. (2002, March). California ESL content standards: Building towards student performance measures. Presentation at the 33rd Annual CATESOL Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Farr, B. & Linquanti, R. (2001, August). Evaluating the effects of the implementation of Proposition 227 on the education of English learners: First year report. Presentation at School's In! The State Superintendent's Symposium on Critical Issues for California Schools, Sacramento, CA.
Koelsch, N. (2002, August). Portfolio assessment. Presentation at University of Nevada, Reno, Making a Group and Individual Commitment Institute, Reno, NV.
Lagunoff, R. & Koelsch, N. (2002, February). Promising practices in developing academic language for secondary English learners. Presentation at the meeting of the California Association of Bilingual Educators, , San Jose, CA.
Lagunoff, R., Solano-Flores, G., Sexton, U., & Nelson-Barber, S. (2001, January). English language ability and math and science assessments. Paper presented at the meeting of the California Association for Bilingual Education 2001 Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Linquanti, R. (2002, April). Reclassifying English learners as fluent English proficient: Issues and options. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Linquanti, R. (2002, August). Evaluating English language learner services for accountability and improvement. Presentation at the California Teachers Association/National Education Association Summer Symposium for Schools of Greatest Need, Los Angeles, CA.
Linquanti, R. (2002, August). Improving accountability for English learner success: Reclassification as part of the solution, not part of the problem. Presentation to the California School Boards Association, Sacramento, CA.
Linquanti, R. (2002, August). No English learner left behind: Fostering accountability in the wake of new federal legislation. Presentation to Joint Session of the Utah Coalition of Minorities Advisory Committee and the Utah State Legislature Public Education Interim Committee, Salt Lake City, UT.
Linquanti, R. (2002, February). Issues and options for improving accountability for English learner success. Presentation to the California State Assembly Education Committee, Sacramento, CA.
Linquanti, R. (2002, May). Evaluation of Proposition 227: Overview and findings to date. Presentation at the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute Conference, Berkeley, CA.
Linquanti, R. & Aburto, S. (2002, March). Principles and practices for evaluating English learner services. Presentation at the National Association for Bilingual Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Linquanti, R. & Wilde, J. (2001, February). Reclassifying English learners: Issues and options. Presentation at the meeting of the National Association for Bilingual Education, Phoenix, AZ.
Linquanti, R., Aburto, S., & Riggs, K. (2001, December). Evaluating English learner services for accountability and improvement. Presentation at the California Department of Education Standards-Based Evaluation and Accountability Institute for English Learners and Immigrant Students, Santa Barbara, CA.
Nelson-Barber, S. (2001, April). Documenting learning practice: Videotape analysis as a tool for understanding Yup’ik classrooms. Presentation at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.
Nelson-Barber, S. & Trumbull, E. (2001, July). Teaching in the Content Areas Using Cultural Strengths. Presentation at the Pacific Education Conference, Mangilao, Guam.
Sexton, U. (2001, June). Estado, estructura y función de la materia—States of matter, structure and function: An integrated discovery unit for teaching science in grades 3rd to 5th. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society of Elementary Presidential Awardees, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sexton, U. (2001, March). Teachers' cultural perspectives in assessment: Reflections from a teacher study. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, St. Louis, MO.
Sexton, U. (2001, March). Working with unknowns: Backwards mapping from standards and assessment to instruction. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, St. Louis, MO.
Sexton, U. & Solano-Flores, G. (2001, April). A comparative study of teachers’ cultural perspectives across different cultures. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.
Sexton, U. & Solano-Flores, G. (2002, April). Cultural validity in assessment development: A cross-cultural study on the interpretation of math and science items. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Solano-Flores, G. (2000, July). Assessment can benefit from diversity. Keynote speech at the Assessment Training Institute conference, "Assessment Without Victims: Addressing Diversity with Student-Involved Classroom Assessment", Portland, OR.
Solano-Flores, G. (2000, July). Know thy student. Portland, OR.
Solano-Flores, G. (2000, March). Assessment support for bilingual teachers and teachers of English language learners. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the California Association for Bilingual Education, San Francisco, CA.
Solano-Flores, G. (2000, September). Promoting equitable assessment in science. Paper presented at the Teacher Institute of the Guam Department of Education, Hagátña, Guam.
Solano-Flores, G. (2000, September). Recent advances in science assessment. Keynote speech at the Teacher Institute of the Guam Department of Education, Hagátña, Guam.
Solano-Flores, G. (2001, August). Worldviews and testviews: The relevance of cultural validity. Paper presented at the European Association of Research in Learning and Instruction, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Solano-Flores, G. (2001, February). Assessing the knowledge and skills of limited English proficient students. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Texas Assessment Conference 12th Annual Texas Association of Collegiate Personnel Conference, Austin, TX.
Solano-Flores, G. (2002, April). Cultural validity: A sociocultural perspective in educational measurement. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Solano-Flores, G. (2002, June). Cross-language assessment development for English language learners. Paper presented at the meeting of the Science Assessment for Limited English Proficient Students group of the Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC.
Solano-Flores, G. & López-Freeman, M. A. (2002, January). Development and use of the Spanish version of the California Science Education Standards. Paper presented at the California Association of Bilingual Education 27th Annual Conference, San Jose, CA.
Solano-Flores, G. & Nelson-Barber, S. (2000, April). Cultural validity of assessments and assessment development procedures. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Solano-Flores, G. & Nelson-Barber, S. (2000, January). Attaining assessment cultural validity: The perspective of assessment development. Paper presented at the Relevance of Assessment and Culture in Evaluation meeting organized, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Solano-Flores, G. & Nelson-Barber, S. (2000, July). Same skills, different cultures: Yup’ik and Pacific Islander approaches to promoting mathematics skills. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Pacific Educational Conference, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Solano-Flores, G. & Nelson-Barber, S. (2000, October). Development of hands-on mathematics activities that honor indigenous, traditional Yup’ik knowledge. Paper presented at the National Conference on Aboriginal Education, Winnipeg, Canada.
Solano-Flores, G. & Trumbull, E. (2002, January). Better and more equitable approaches for assessing English language learners. Paper presented at the California Association of Bilingual Education 27th Annual Conference, San Jose, CA.
Solano-Flores, G., Lara, J., & Sexton, U. (2000, April). A comparison of English language learners' responses to science prompts in English and in their first languages. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Solano-Flores, G., Trumbull, E., & Nelson-Barber, S. (2000, April). Evaluation of a model for the concurrent development of two language versions (English and Spanish) of a mathematics assessment in a bilingual program. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Trumbull, E. & Koelsch, N. (2000, January). Developing a performance-based literacy assessment for bilingual students in transition. Paper presented at the Relevance of Assessment and Culture in Evaluation meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Trumbull, E. & Solano-Flores, G. (2001, November). Language, culture, and assessment: New approaches. Paper presented at the California athematics Council-Northern Section Conference, Asilomar, CA.
Trumbull, E., Diaz-Mesa, R., & Hasan, A. (2000, April). Using cultural knowledge to inform literacy practices: Teacher innovations from the Bridging Cultures Project. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Trumbull, E., Hernandez, E., & Rothstein-Fisch, C. (2002, April). Parent involvement—according to whose values? Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Tuss, P. & Linquanti, R. (2001, November). Using evaluation data to improve accountability and instruction for English learners: One district’s work in progress. Presentation at the California Educational Research Association Conference, South Lake Tahoe, CA.