Monday, November 7th, 2011
In This Issue
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Horizons Ahead: Heather Hoerle
Lately I have been thinking a lot about horizons.
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Reflections on Assessment
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Dr. Richard Rovinelli: SSATB's Chief Testing and Technology Officer
SSATB is pleased to announce that a leading psychometrician, Dr. Richard Rovinelli, has joined the organization as Chief Testing and Technology Officer.
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Call for Innovation in Assessment
SSATB is convening a Think Tank on innovation in assessment to address new technologies, philosophies, and methods of assessment in independent school admission.
Board Report
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Call for SSATB Board Nominations
The SSATB Board of Directors has issued a call for nominations for a class of trustees whose term will begin June 2012 and run until June 2016.
Field Report
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SSATB Training on the Web
Eager for SSATB services training but faced with a tight schedule, Jenelle Reis (Brooks School, MA) and SSATB’s Jennifer Eidam Davis discovered the perfect solution.
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Pre-Prep Showcase® Tradition
Member Spotlight
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Spotlight on Lower School Assessment : an interview with Dr. Michael Leatch, Crescent School (ON)
Memberanda interviewed Dr. Michael Leatch, staff psychologist at Crescent School (ON), about the process Crescent uses to assess Lower School applicants and an exciting research project currently underway at the school.
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Doing It Right: School Visits, Cate Style
The Cate School (CA) admission staff has spent considerable time creating a campus visit program that has yielded results.
Services Updates
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Data Helps Predict Student Success,Outcomes, SAT Scores
It is crucial that admission professionals understand what SSAT scores mean relative to the most important group – their own students. Understanding SSAT data in a school’s context not only helps predict first year success, but diving deeper into the relationship between SSAT scores and other student data can help predict some additional and value-added outcomes. Memberanda is pleased to spotlight four schools and their data-driven use of SSAT scores.
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Working Group Tackles the SSAT Writing Prompt
One item mentioned time and again by SSATB members during Heather Hoerle’s Listening Tour was the need for new/different prompts for the SSAT Writing Sample portion of the test.
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Help SSATB pretest our 3-4 exam!
SSATB is looking for member schools willing to pretest the SSAT 3-4 exam with their 3rd and 4th grade students, beginning in April 2012.
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SSAT Booth to Go!
Now available for school fairs: the SSAT Booth to Go!
Annual Meeting
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Conversation, Connection and Change: Can it be that technology is making schools more human?
The three keynote speakers at SSATB’s Annual Meeting in Phoenix braided powerful themes into a resounding message: the openness, access, and transparency engendered by technology have changed the educational landscape in ways that admission professionals must understand and embrace.
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2011 Annual Meeting Materials Online!
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Christine Baker and Marjorie Mitchell Win SSATB Awards
Congratulations to the 2011 SSATB Award recipients!
FYI
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Making Technology Work For You: An Interview with Tim Fish
Tim Fish is the President of FolioNetwork, a new company providing independent schools with cutting-edge tools to build the strongest possible faculty, while engaging the entire school community in the growth process. Tim, the former Assistant Headmaster at the McDonough School in Maryland, lent his knowledge and expertise about technology and independent school admission to this year’s Annual Meeting.
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Integrating the School Community Using iPads
