Wischnowski, Students Present at Evaluation Conference

The Warner School was well represented at last month's Sixteenth Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), which 2,000 education professionals attended.

Michael Wischnowski, assistant professor, educational leadership program, and seven members of last year's Measurement, Assessment, and Program Evaluation courses made presentations at the conference in Washington, D.C., November 4-10.

Doctoral students Elizabeth M. Bentley and Peter Abas joined Wischnowski in presenting a poster session on the Warner School's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology (PT3) project. Wischnowski, with doctoral students Paul Collins and Bonnie Whitney, presented another poster session, "Co-Teaching as a Means of Implementing Inclusion."

Warner School doctoral student Colleen Coulter and Wischnowski conducted a roundtable on the subject of "Reforming Minority Scholarship Programs." Laurie A. Clayton, also a doctoral student, delivered her paper "Using Stufflebeam's Context, Input, Process and Product (CIPP) Evaluation Approach to Guide Self-Study Evaluation Processes." Doctoral student Jill W. Bloss presented her paper, "High School Predictors of Performance in a Physical Therapy Program," as part of a multi-paper session on the evaluation of special populations of students.

The AEA was incorporated in 1986 with the mission of improving evaluation practices and methods, increasing evaluation use, promoting evaluation as a profession, and supporting the contribution of evaluation in generating educational theory and knowledge. For additional information visit the AEA Web site at www.eval.org.