So Marie.  Will this new "fully moderated format" require a change-back to a non-html setting I had to have in order to express an opinion about assessment issues?  
   
  I have returned to our former format because the text setting wouldn't even allow me to underline or to type bold ... to say nothing of being able to change the font size or do a spell check.
   
  Nancy Hansen
  Sioux Falls, SD

Marie Cora <marie.cora at hotspurpartners.com> wrote:
        
            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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