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CETE staffer Angela Stansell attended the ICE Exchange Conference to learn more about digital badges and gain other insights on test development, task analysis, recruitment, and item writing.

Ryan Kapa, a post-doctoral researcher at CETE, attended the annual conference of the Ohio Confederation of Teacher Education Organizations. At this conference he presented work on school security measures and student related outcomes.

CETE Assessment Services attended the fall meeting for Advance CTE in Baltimore Maryland. At the meeting, Perkins V was a focused topic of conversation, along with leveraging storytelling, and improving equity gaps.

CETE staffer Jim Austin attended the OCTA conference to discuss WebXam Tips and Tricks.

On September 26, 2018, CETE celebrated 55 years of bridging research and practical solutions to impact communities, education, and workforce development with an open house. During this open house, clients and outside guests were in attendance get to know the center, its projects and the people behind them.

In September, over 200 adult basic education practitioners attended the two-day Ohio Association of Adult and Continuing Education (OAACE) conference. This statewide conference was a success due in part to the work of CETE.

Each fall and winter, WebXam has a pretesting window to assess students' prior knowledge in a course. In the fall of 2018, WebXam experienced its highest numbers of pretesting.

CETE staffers visit NCTA to learn more about test security, test development, and scoring, all of which is beneficial to the work of the CETE Assessment Services Team.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $4.2 million to Dr. Barbara Boone at (CETE) within the College of Education and Human Ecology for a Statewide Family Engagement Center. This funding from the DOE’s Office of Innovation and Improvement will be used to develop a Statewide Center at The Ohio State University to serve Ohio’s families and schools.

As part of Ohio's Literacy Initiative, CETE staff members developed a set of tools and training called "Partnerships for Literacy"