The Council for Educational Diagnostic Services

A Division of the Council for Exceptional Children

Related Sites:

|The NCED Website|

|National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing|

|National Center on Educational Outcomes|

|Special Education & Learning Disabilities Resources: A Nationwide Directory|

|SpecialEdLaw.net|

|The National Center on Student Progress Monitoring|

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR CEDS CONFERENCE

CEDS Annual Conference
Assessment: A Key to Independence
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 29-31, 2009

The Council for Educational Diagnostic Services is pleased to announce its annual conference.  The 2009 conference will be held in Philadelphia on October 29-31.

Keynote: "Unlocking Answers to a National Crisis: Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education"

Keynote Speaker: Jack Jorgensen, Ph.D.; Assistant Dean, School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Call for Proposals - WORD format - .pdf format
More information - WORD format - .pdf format

REGISTRATION FORM - WORD format - .pdf format

Chosse this link to reserve a room at the conference hotel: RESERVATIONS

INFORMATION FOR EXHIBITORS - WORD format - .pdf format

PROPOSED CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION

There are a number of proposed changes to the CEDS Constitution:

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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.

Get Instructions

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 has recently published a revised edition of “What Every Special Educator Must Know.” This recent publication contains ethics, standards and guidelines for special educators in addition to new sets of knowledge and skills for special education specialists. Revised standards for educational diagnosticians are included in this new edition. The original set published on the website was compiled by a committee consisting of Nancy Halmhuber, Theresa Montani, Jennifer Goldblatt, Joan Hoffman,Carol Layton and Pat Frawley, Chair. These standards were then sent out for survey to the CEDS membership and approved for publication. Since the set of knowledge and skills for educational diagnosticians is considered an advanced set of skills, the approved set was then aligned with the Advanced Common Core of knowledge and skills standards . This newly aligned set can be downloaded and also viewed in the 2008 edition of “ What Every Special Educator Must Know’.

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

Get the Revised 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)

Please direct questions to: maddux@unr.edu
URL of this document: http://www.unr.edu/educ/ceds/
Last Modified: March 27, 2009