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• No Child Left Behind by John Bailey (PowerPoint)
• What Does Scientifically Based Research Mean? by CoSN (PowerPoint)

What Does Scientifically Based Research Mean?
October 16, 2002

The program will consist of three parts: (1) the "facts" about No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its scientifically-based research (SBR) requirements; (2) a specific focus on the relationship between the SBR and technology requirements of NCLB; and (3) a practitioner's perspective on the implications for state and local practice.

Moderator: Doris Redfield, Executive Director, Institute for the Advancement of Research in Education at AEL

Presenters:

• John Bailey, Director of Education Technology, US Department of Education
• Valeria Reyna, PhD, Senior Research Advisor, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, US Department of Education

Responder: Dean Bergman, Administrator Educational Technology, Nebraska Department of Education

Presenters Biographies

John Bailey, Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, advises senior department officials on educational technology policy and helps implement policy throughout department-wide technology programs. Prior to joining the Department of Education, Mr. Bailey served as the director of educational technology for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In this capacity, Mr. Bailey was responsible for technology policy related to that of the agency as well as that of Pennsylvania's education institutions. Mr. Bailey assisted with the design and implementation of former Governor Tom Ridge's acclaimed Link-to-Learn initiative, which promotes effective use of information technology to enhance education, promote community partnerships, and support economic growth in Pennsylvania. In addition, Mr. Bailey helped launch Pennsylvania's Students Achieving Standards program, an education technology initiative that measures technology's impact on teaching and student achievement based on academic standards, and the state's Digital School District program. Bailey received his bachelor's degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.

Dr. Doris Redfield, PhD, serves as Vice President for Research and Director of the Regional Educational Laboratory at AEL. In these capacities, she directs all core research and evaluation work, guiding a professional staff of more than 30 staff in the development and conduct of expertly designed research and evaluation studies.

Previous to her work at AEL, Dr. Redfield served as chief of research, evaluation, and assessment with the Virginia Department of Education. She has also served in key capacities on the national and local levels, including: Consultant to the Council of Chief State School Officers' State Collaboratives on assessment and student standards; visiting scholar at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST); Senior Associate, OERI; Professor of Educational Psychology at Western Kentucky University; School Psychologist; and classroom teacher.

Dr. Redfield has published more than 50 articles, book chapters, and technical reports and made over 100 paper presentations at professional conferences as well as scores of invited presentations/keynote addresses. Redfield also serves as the chair of the American Evaluation Association's Ethics Committee.

Dr. Redfield received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Arizona and completed her undergraduate work at California State University, Fullerton.

Dr. Valerie F. Reyna has been appointed Senior Research Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the United States Department of Education. In that role, she oversees research sponsored by OERI to ensure that it meets high standards of scientific quality, and provides the evidence that is needed to improve the practice of education in the United States. Dr. Reyna also coordinates research activities across the Department of Education and other federal departments and agencies.

Dr. Reyna comes to her new position from the University of Arizona, Tucson, where she served as Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Mexican-American Studies, and Women's Studies. Her many administrative responsibilities at Arizona included being Director, Division of Learning, Technology, and Assessment, Arizona Research Laboratories; Director, Informatics and Decision Making Laboratory, College of Medicine; and Director, Biopsychosocial Core, National Institutes of Health Center, Department of Pediatrics. Her research, which has focused on false memories in children and risky decision-making in youth, has generated numerous publications and millions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and private foundations.

While at Arizona, Dr. Reyna has been President of the Arizona Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, President of the Association of Women Faculty, and a member of the Arizona Governor's Task Force on Educational Reform, among many other services to groups and organizations. At the national level, her service includes membership on the editorial boards of five scientific journals, and permanent membership on study sections of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Reyna received her undergraduate degree from Clark University and her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Rockefeller University.