Dear Discussion List Participants, 
Today, the National Institute for Literacy is moving the Assessment
discussion list to a fully moderated format. Our goal is to enhance
professional development for educators and practitioners through ongoing
opportunities to learn, discuss, and reflect on critical literacy
issues. 
There will not be significant changes in the way you receive your
discussion list mail.  Each list will have a moderator who will
facilitate dialogue about the latest literacy research and its
applications to instructional practice; promising policies and practices
-- in addition to promoting the exchange of ideas, resources, and
experience.  The moderator will review messages posted to the list
daily, prior to releasing it to subscribers.  Please review the
Discussion List Guidelines at
http://dev.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/list_guidelines.html for more
information.  
As subscribers, you can continue to post to the list, the list email
address is: assessment at dev.nifl.gov.
The purpose of the Assessment list is to provide an on-going
professional development forum for practitioners, program
administrators, volunteers, researchers, and policy makers who interact
with Assessment and Evaluation in the field of Adult Literacy. The focus
of this professional development forum is to discuss issues relevant to
multiple forms of Assessment and Evaluation as they relate to Adult
Literacy; to provide the field with information and resources that can
be used to develop, expand, and inform the Adult Literacy field on
Assessment and Evaluation issues; to enrich and improve public policies
related to Assessment and Evaluation by providing an open forum for the
exchange of relevant policy ideas. These discussions can and should
improve policy, practice, and research. Topics may include Assessment
issues such as instruction, curricula, self-assessment, the GED, and the
National Reporting System.  This list is moderated by Marie Cora. 
We encourage discussion list participants to focus your contributions to
the Assessment list. Your comments, suggestions, references, and ideas
posted to the discussion lists continue serve as resources for enhancing
the field's capacity and knowledge base.  We encourage open discourse
and an exchange of information, ideas, and practices among all list
subscribers.  As in the past, differences in perspectives and ideas are
welcome, especially when they are voiced in the spirit of inquiry,
curiosity, and mutual respect.  
Thank you for your dedication to this online community.  We look forward
to sharing and learning with you.   
Sincerely, 
Tanya Shuy and Mary Jo Maralit 
National Institute for Literacy 
 
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