Books:

• Lissitz, R. W. (Editor, in press) The Concept of Validity: Revisions, New Directions and Applications .  Charlotte: Information Age Publishing Inc.
• Schafer, W. & Lissitz, R.W. (Editors, in press) Assessment for Alternate Achievement Standards: Current Practices and Future Directions .  Baltimore: Brooks Publishing.
• Lissitz, R. W.  (Editor, 2007).  Assessing and Modeling Cognitive Development in School: Intellectual Growth and Standard Setting , Maple Grove: JAM press.
• Lissitz, R. W. (Editor, 2006). Longitudinal and Value Added Modeling of Student Performance , Maple Grove: JAM Press.
• Lissitz, R. W. (Editor, 2005). Value Added Models in Education:  Theory and Applications , Maple Grove: JAM Press.
• Lissitz, R. W. and Schafer W. D. (Editors, 2002) Assessment in Educational Reform: Both Means and Ends .  Allyn and Bacon

Articles & Presentations:

• Lissitz, R. W. and Li, Y. (2008). Reporting aggregated data at the system, school and classroom level. Maryland Assessment Group, Ocean City, Maryland.
• Lissitz, R. W. & Wei, Hua (2008). Consistency of Standard Setting in an Augmented State Testing System. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 27, 2, 46-56.
• Schafer, W. D., Wang, J., and Wang, V. (2008). Validity in action: State assessment validity evidence for compliance with NCLB . Ninth Annual Maryland Assessment Conference: The Concept of Validity: Revisions, New Directions and Applications, College Park, October 9.
• Schafer, W. D., Liu, M. & Wang, H (2007). Content and Grade Trends in State Assessments and NAEP. Practical Assessment Research & Evaluation , 12 (9)
• Lissitz, R.W., & Kroopnick, M.H (2007). An Adaptive Procedure for Standard Setting and A Comparison with Traditional Approaches, Paper presented at the NCME annual meeting in Chicago, IL, April, 2007.
• Lissitz, R. W., & Wei, H (2007). Consistency of Standard Setting in an Augmented State Testing System. Paper presented at the NCME annual meeting in Chicago, IL, April, 2007 .
• Lin, P., Wei, H., & Lissitz, R. W. (2007). Equivalent Test Structure across Grades: A Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach. Paper presented at the AERA annual meeting in Chicago, IL, April, 2007.
• Schafer, W. D., Liu, M., & Wang, H. (2007). Cross-Grade Comparisons among Statewide Assessments and NAEP.Paper presented at the AERA annual meeting in Chicago, IL, April, 2007.
• Hislop, B., Von Secker, C., Bedford, S., & Perakis, S. (2006, Nov). Using Data to Drive Change. MAG Conference, MD.
• Schafer, W. (2006). Growth Scales as Alternative to Vertical Scale.Practical Assessment Research & Evaluation , 11 (4).
• Schafer, W. & Twing, J. (2006). Growth scales and pathways. In Lissitz, R. W. (Ed.), Longitudinal and value-added models of student performance(pp. 321-345) . Maple Grove, MN: JAM Press.
• Lissitz, R., Doran, H., Schafer, W., & Wilhoft, J.(2006). Growth modeling, value added modeling, and linking: An introduction (2006). In Lissitz, R. W. (Ed.), Longitudinal and value-added models of student performance (pp. 1-46. ). Maple Grove, MN: JAM Press.
• Lissitz, R. & Fan, W., et. al. (2006). The Prediction of Performance on the Maryland High School Graduation Exam: Magnitude, Modeling and Reliability of Results. Paper presented at the April, 2006 NCME annual meeting in San Francisco, CA.
• Shafer, W. (2005). Comments on school-level database design and use. Paper presented at National Research Council Symposium on Use of School-Level Data to Evaluate Federal Education Programs, Washington, DC, December,2005.
• Li, Y. & Schafer, W. (2005). Increasing the homogeneity of CAT's item-exposure rates by minimizing or maximizing varied target functions while assempling shadow tests. Journal of Educational Measurement , 42 (3), 245-269.
• Schafer, W. (2005). Technical documentation for alternate assessments (2005). Practical Assessment Research & Evaluation , 10 (10).
• Schafer, W., Papapolydorou, M., Rahman, T. , & Parker. L. (2005). Effects of Test Administrator Characteristics on Achievement Test Scores (2005). Paper presented at the Conference of the National Council on Measurement in Education in Montreal, Canada, April, 2005 .
• Shafer, W., Gagne, P. & Lissitz, R. (2005). Resistance to Confounding Style and Content in Scoring Constructed Response Items. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice , 24 (2), 22-28.

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