Events
You’ll find the MetaMetrics team presenting at and attending a wide variety of education conferences and seminars — both in the United States and around the world. Here is what is right around the corner:
2017
Presentation: Aligning Research to Reality: The Importance of Early Literacy
CORE Conference
Presenter: Jason Turner
Date: July 26, 2017
Presentation: The Development of an Individual Computer-Based Spanish Vocabulary Assessment for Preschool through Eighth Grade
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Annual Meeting
Presenters: Pelusa Orellana, Melody Kung & Jeff Elmore
Date: July 19, 2017
Presentation: Conceptual Complexity of Vocabulary in Elementary Science Textbooks
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Annual Meeting
Presenter: Jeff Elmore
Date: July 19, 2017
Presentation: Big Data, Big Implications: Shifting What and How We Teach for the Unknown Future
International Center for Leadership in Education Model Schools Conference
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith & Dr. Bill Dagget
Date: June 27, 2017
Presentation: Spotlighting Growth Towards College and Career Readiness Through STAAR and The Lexile Framework
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Rigor, Relevance, Relationships Leadership Conference
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith
Date: June 6, 2017
Presentation: Novel Interpretations of Academic Growth
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
Presenter: Dr. Gary L. Williamson
Date: April 30, 2017
Presentation: Choosing Mathematical Functions for Individual Academic Growth
National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting
Presenter: Dr. Gary L. Williamson
Date: April 29, 2017
Presentation: The Academic Vocabulary of Elementary-Grades Core Disciplinary Textbooks
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
Presenter: Jeff Elmore
Date: April 22, 2017
Presentation: Aligning Research to Reality – Reading at the Core!
MyON Literacy Summit
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith
Date: April 6-7, 2017
Presentation: Aligning Research, Policy and Practice to the Goal of College and Career Readiness
Achieve3000 and Renaissance Learning School of the Future Symposium
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith
Date: March 17, 2017
Presentation: Quantifying Mathematics Growth, Lesson-Difficulty and Readiness for College and Career with a Single Scale
North Carolina Association for Research in Education Annual Meeting
Presenter: Dr. Gary L. Williamson
Date: February 17, 2017
Presentation: Spotlighting Growth Towards College and Career Readiness Through the Lexile Framework
Achieve3000 Hawaii Literacy Leadership Conference
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith
Date: February 6-9, 2017
Presentation: Supporting Differentiated Reading & Math Instruction
Norwalk Public Schools
Presenter: Dr. Malbert Smith
Date: January 18, 2017
2016
Presentations: “A Framework for Automatically Generating Algebra Test Items” & “The Impact of Student Differences When Using Automatic Item Generation to Pre-Calibrate Items”
Conference: International Test Commission Conference (Vancouver, Canada)
Presenter: Audra Kosh
Date: July 1-4, 2016
Presentation: Measuring Reading Comprehension Through Automated Analysis of Students’ Small-Group Discussions
Conference: NCME (Washington, DC)
Presenter: Audra Kosh, Hal Burdick, & Jeff Elmore, Research Engineer
Date: April 9, 2016
Presentation: Panel of journal editors
Conference: American Educational Research Association (Washington, DC)
Presenter: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist
Date: April 1, 2016
Presentation: The Conceptual Complexity of Vocabulary in Elementary-Grades Science Textbooks
Conference: PCRC (San Diego, California)
Presenter: Dr. Jill Fitzgerald, Distinguished Research Scientist & Jeff Elmore, Research Engineer, & Dr. Jack Stenner, Chief Science Officer
Date: February 4, 2016
Plus, we host our own professional learning workshops for educators and staff and sales training workshops for clients where you can learn more about The Lexile® Framework for Reading and The Quantile® Framework for Mathematics as well as our new research and other initiatives.