Core Progress™ for Math - Renaissance Learning

AcknowledgementsDr. Karin Hess, Senior Associate with the Center for Assessment (NCIEA) since 2002,brings to the Center’s work over 30 years of deep experience in curriculum, instruction,and assessment. Dr. Hess is recognized nationally for her research and work with learningprogressions, text complexity, performance assessment, and cognitive rigor. In additionto experiences as a classroom teacher and school administrator, she has been a programevaluator for the Vermont Mathematics Project; a content specialist for development of theReviewer Vermont Science assessment; and as developer and editor of Science Exemplars K-8performance assessments. Dr. Hess is the principal author of the content specificationsfor assessment of the CCSS ELA and Literacy standards and was a contributor to the mathematics contentspecifications for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.ReviewerDr. R. James Milgram is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Stanford University wherehe has taught since 1970. He is a former member of the National Board for EducationSciences, the NASA Advisory Council, Common Grounds Project, and Achieve MathematicsAdvisory Panel. Dr. Milgram has helped author several states’ standards and recently servedon the Validation Committee for the Common Core State Standards. He has publishedover 100 research papers in mathematics and four books. Dr. Milgram received hisundergraduate and master’s degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago,and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Minnesota.Dr. Amanda M. VanDerHeyden, is a private consultant and researcher who has directedand evaluated numerous school-wide intervention and reform efforts, most often in thearea of mathematics. Dr. VanDerHeyden serves as advisor to the National Center forLearning Disabilities, iSTEEP (a web-based data management system), and is a standingpanel member for the Institute for Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.Dr. VanDerHeyden has published more than 60 scholarly articles and chapters, 5 books, andReviewer has given keynote addresses to state school psychology associations and state departmentsof education in 21 states. She is co-author of the Evidence-Based Mathematics Innovation Configuration for theNational Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality at Vanderbilt University and now the Collaboration forEffective Education Development, Accountability, and Reform at University of Florida.L2791.0713.XX.XMR55248