Summary of WIA Assessment Discussion
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WIA Community Conversations on the Assessment Discussion List
February 11 – 15, 2010
Summary of WIA Assessment Discussion
The WIA Community Conversations discussion covered a range of topics focused on the assessment questions below:
• What types of accountability measures are needed to successfully gauge whether adult learners are achieving their goals?
• What do you see as some of the greatest challenges with our present accountability measures? What are some innovative solutions to those challenges?
• How might WIA reauthorization support improving our present accountability measures? What are your hopes?
Subscribers were candid and articulate in expressing their concerns and sharing their experiences with Assistant Secretary Brenda Dann-Messier. Transcripts from each of the discussion threads appear below; due to the unique nature of each discussion thread, some transcripts contain back and forth discussion while others contain a compilation of the posts.
• Welcome and Introduction
• Responses to Questions and Comments
• The GED as a Measure of Achievement
• Educational Gain, NRS Functioning Levels, and Post-Testing
• Student Buy-In
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