Papers for AERA 2004 Symposium "Measuring the Principles of Learning in Schools and Classrooms: Development of the Instructional Quality Assessment (IQA) Toolkit."

Following are the drafts of our papers for the symposium on 4/13 (10:35-12:05) at AERA.

The title of our symposium is "Measuring the Principles of Learning in Schools and Classrooms: Development of the Instructional Quality Assessment (IQA) Toolkit."

There'll be five papers presented as follows:

1. Overview of the Instructional Quality Assessment (pdf)
2. Classroom talk for rigorous reading comprehension instruction (pdf)
3. Assessing the quality of reading comprehension assignments and student work (pdf)
4. Using the IQA toolkit to assess academic rigor in mathematics lessons and assignments (pdf)
5. The Instructional Quality Assessment as a Professional Development Tool (email)

If you have any problem in opening the attached files (They're all PDF files), please let me know.

We're all looking forward to seeing you in SD next week.

Thank you again for being our discussants.

[The website is maintained by Brian Junker (brian@stat.cmu.edu; 412 268 8874); please contact him if you have difficulties with these files.]

Sincerely,

Mikyung

Mikyung Kim Wolf, Ph. D.
Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC)
University of Pittsburgh
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