2010 14th Ottawa FAME Course Schedule

FAME is intended to be a basic-level course on educational assessment.  The course is one-and-a-half days of plenary and small group sessions on test design, test development, standard setting, and scoring, and attendance at program events most relevant to the participants’ needs.  The FAME course will be conducted May 15 - 18 (Saturday through Tuesday). The course fee is $850 and all participants must be registered for the 14th Ottawa International Conference.

Saturday, May 15

 

9:00

Welcome and Orientation

Jack Boulet, PhD and Ann King, MA

10:00

Theme Plenary: Test Material Development

Dave Swanson, PhD

10:45

Frame Group Discussion: Test Material Development

 

12:15

LUNCH

 

1:00

Theme Plenary: Scoring and Reporting Issues

Andre DeChamplain, PhD

1:45

Frame Group Discussion: Scoring and Reporting (4 Working groups)

 

2:45

Theme Plenary: Standard Setting

Jack Boulet, PhD

3:15

BREAK

 

3:30

Theme Plenary: Validating Test Scores and Decisions

Dale Dauphinee, MD

4:00

Frame Group Discussion: Standard Setting (4 working groups)

 

5:00

Adjourn

 

Sunday, May 16

9:00

Theme Plenary: Program Assessment

Ingrid Philibert, PhD, MBA

9:45

Frame Group Discussion: Validating Test Scores and Decisions

 

10:45

Group Discussion

Jack Boulet, PhD and Ann King, MA

12:00

Adjourn

 

Monday, May 17

12:00

LUNCH and Frame Group Review Discussion

 

1:00

RECESS to AAMC Conference Sessions

 

Tuesday, May 18

12:00

LUNCH and Group Wrap-up Discussion

 

1:00

Adjourn