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Greene Named Inaugural Alva Myrdal Guest Professor in Education
Jennifer Greene is currently the first honorary recipient of the Alva Myrdal Guest Professorship in Education and Social Welfare at Malardalen University in Eskilstuna and Västerås, Sweden. In this role, she has participated in numerous seminars and workshops on the social and political role of evaluation in democratic societies. She has also contributed to a Swedish project on building the evaluation capacity of the social and welfare sectors.
Illinois Expert on Bullying in Schools Advises Japan and Korea
Dr. Dorothy Espelage will be a guest of the US Embassy and will visit Japan and South Korea from February 12-24, 2008 to help with bullying problems and what school guidance counselors can do to help. She will be speaking to government officials, journalists, and business people on the topic. Read More...
Professor invited to present at the Royal Society of Edinburgh
On May 28-29, Dr. Kiel Christianson was invited to deliver a paper (co-authored by student Steven Luke) at a Festschrift in honor of Charles E. Clifton, Jr., which was held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The title of the paper was, "When context induces good-enough language processing and interpretation."
Helping Chinese Children Learn to Read
Dr. Richard Anderson has led a research project at Illinois since the early 1990s on the process and psychology of learning to read Chinese. He also is the director of the Center for the Study of Reading at Illinois. read more...
Guidance for Israel's "City Without Violence" Program
Dr. Dorothy Espelage will consult with the Mayor, Mr. Meir Itshak Halevi, and the leading team of "Eilat: A City Without Violence" in Israel on December 27, 2007. She will also be presenting "Applying a Social-Ecological Perspective to Community- and School-Based Violence" at Ben-Gurion University of the Negav on December 28, 2007.
Promoting High Quality Social Science
Thomas A. Schwandt is a member of the Standing Committee on Social Science Evidence for Use for the National Academies, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. This interdisciplinary group is charged with identifying actions aimed at promoting high quality social science with an eye toward evidence-informed decision-making.
Shaping Higher Education in Sweden
Dr. Jennifer Greene is serving on the International Evaluation Advisory Panel for the Swedish Department of Higher Education.
Collaboration With Leading Chinese Testing Company
EdPsych faculty and students have taken leading roles in work with the Tianjin Municipal Educational Admission and Examination Authority (TAEA), one of the best testing companies in China. A May 2006 visit by a TAEA delegation to Champaign, where they signed a contract for UIUC to provide certified training to testing professionals in China, was followed in December by a trip to China by a UIUC delegation led by Hua-Hua Chang (Queries faculty), Lizanne Destefano (Queries faculty) and Larry Hubert (Dept. of Psychology faculty), and including Hongling Sun (Queries). The UIUC group visited TAEA and successfully conducted a joint Psychometric and Evaluation workshop in Tianjin, attended by about 130 testing professionals. Dr. Chang notes that “clearly, there is a potential market for doing certified training in China.”
AEA is responsible for the development and administration of assessments designed for many educational purposes (e.g., entrance examinations for High School and Universities, achievement tests, language proficiency tests). The municipality served by TAEA has over 10 million residents and TAEA has the prospect of networking with similarly large municipalities in P.R. China.