Monday, November 12, 2012

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED for CREA Conference

[Announcement from SCRA-L]


There's still time! The SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to Friday, NOVEMBER 16th for the CREA Conference.
Access the submission management system from the conference website: http://crea.education.illinois.edu/conference/.

“Repositioning Culture in Evaluation and Assessment”
Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA)
Inaugural Conference, April 21-23, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois
Hosted by the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Call for Submissions
This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of US and international scholars to focus on the role of culture in theory and practices of evaluation and assessment. The CREA conference is unique in its definitive recognition of culture’s centrality to evaluation and assessment and will illuminate the landscape of culturally responsive evaluation and assessment, a space that remains largely uncharted. Join us!

Keynote Speakers
Rodney Hopson (President AEA, Duquesne University)
Eric Jolly (Science Museum of Minnesota President)
Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo (University of Colorado-Denver)

Invited Panelists
Jennifer Greene (University of Illinois)*
Karen Kirkhart (Syracuse University)*
Gloria Ladson-Billings (University of Wisconsin-Madison)**
Carol Lee (Northwestern University)**
William Tate (Washington University, St. Louis)**
*Past- President American Evaluation Association
**Past- President American Educational Research Association

Please visit the conference website (http://crea.education.illinois.edu/conference/) for additional details about the conference themes, session formats and additional information. 

Sent on behalf of the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA)

Stafford Hood, Director        
Thomas Schwandt, Associate Director
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Lauren F. Lichty, Ph.D.
Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment
College of Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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