The Council for Educational Diagnostic Services

The Council for Educational Diagnostic Services is pleased to announce its annual conference. The 2008 conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 23-25.

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CEDS Call for Proposals

ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO JOURNAL FOR CEDS MEMBERS

As one of your benefits of CEDS membership, you are able to access the electronic version of Assessment for Effective Intervention online. However, new members must wait to receive their first print issue then apply for electronic access. Once you get access, you will be able to view and search issues back to 1999. Choose the following link to access full directions in WORD format.

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Important, Related Links

[Texas Educational Diagnosticians' Association]
[Commission on No Child Left Behind]
     [ May 9th session at Saint Joseph College in Connecticut] - "Testing: Making It Work for
     Children and Schools."
           Choose this link for the Webcast of the Hearings - CEDS testimony is delivered by Joan Hofmann
           at 2:43 (2 hours and 43 minutes into the session).

New Standards for Educational Diagnosticians

CEC is in the process of validating a new set of knowledge and skills. The set for Educational Diagnosticians is considered an Advanced Set and as such will be in the Advanced Common Core to be published in 2008. As CEDS Professional Standards Committee Chair, Pat Frawley has been chairing a committee whose goal is to update and validate present standards and align existing materials with current and emerging practices. Committee members who have worked toward this goal include Nancy Halmhuber, Theresa Montani, Jennifer Goldblatt, Joan Hoffman and Carol Layton. The standards for Educational Diagnosticians are being prepared for final survey this coming fall. Please review the content of the standards, which can be downloaded below, and contact Pat Frawley at patquilt@comcast.net with any suggestions. We welcome your feedback.

Get the Standards (WORD format) Get the Standards (.pdf format)

CEDS Professional Activities

1. High Stakes Assessment - CEDS views (WORD format)
2. CEDS Testimony to Commission on No Child Left Behind (WORD format)
3. Summary of Performance Template - a tool for students leaving special education (WORD format)
4. Summary of Performance Template - (.pdf format)

University of Nevada, Reno
Please direct questions to: maddux@unr.edu
URL of this document: http://www.unr.edu/educ/ceds/
Last Modified: February 15, 2008