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Data for Student Success August, 2009
Mission Pointe“It is about focusing on building a culture of quality data
through professional development and web based dynamic inquiries for school improvement.”
Introduction to the Grant
• Federal Title II Part D of the NCLB Act of 2001 Enhancing Education through Technology Grant awarded through CEPI
• Awarded to Calhoun ISD in partnership with Macomb ISD and Shiawassee RESD
• Beginning date: January 1, 2007
Session Goal
• Provide a process to identify essential learning, develop assessments to determine mastery, and use data for differentiation in order to help struggling students achieve the essentials and to help proficient students extend their learning.
Outcomes• Provide a process of prioritizing the
content expectations
• Identify components of an assessment plan
• Develop a process for utilizing formative assessments to improve student learning and inform instruction
Assessment Plan
• Support school mission
• Support school improvement goals
• Contain time frames and responsibility
• Communicate purpose
• Contain both “of” and “for” assessments
• Define use of data
• Contain ongoing review
Safety Net Curriculum
• Read Mike Flanagan’s email
• Read the Safety Net Curriculum by Doug Reeves
• Use Final Word protocol to process
What is a power standard?• School
• Life
• State Test
• What essential understandings and skills do our students need?
• Which standards and/or indicators can be clustered or incorporated into others?
Process for Standards Identification
9th Grade ELA Example
• Identify non-negotiable standards for the course
• Place standards into units (Repetition is ok)
• “Unpack” the power standards– What does mastery look like?– How do we assess it?
Identify Linear Power Standards
• Using Linear expectations from Math MMC, identify the “essential” standards.
• As a group:– Place a green sticker on the essential
expectations– Yellow on the extension expectations
Why assess?
• What are reasons we assess?
• What do we hope to gain?
• What are some of the errors made with assessments?
Why common assessments
Doug Reeves (2004) refers to common assessments as the “gold standard” because they:
• promote consistency in expectations
• provide timely, accurate, and specific feedback to both students and teachers
Assessment Questions
• What evidence do we need to indicate students have met our stated purpose? What kinds of assessment results will tell us with confidence our students are proficient?
• What types of assessments provide that evidence?
• What choices will we offer students to demonstrate their understanding or skills?
Results of Assessments
“You can enhance or destroy students’ desire to succeed in school more quickly and permanently through your use of assessment than with any other tools you have at your disposal.”
Rick Stiggins
A Balanced Assessment Program
AssessmentAssessment
““OF”OF”• SummativeSummative
• Norm Referenced / Norm Referenced / Standardized Standardized
• A snapshot in timeA snapshot in time
Essential Question:Essential Question:
• What have students What have students already learned?already learned?
AssessmentAssessment
““FOR”FOR”• FormativeFormative
• Often teacher-madeOften teacher-made
• A moving pictureA moving picture
Essential Question:Essential Question:
• How can we help How can we help students learn more?students learn more?
Assessment Terms
• Large scale assessments or external
• Small scale or internal
• Norm-referenced
• Criterion referenced
• Selected response
• Constructed response
• Performance assessments
Assessment Design
• Match purpose with design
• Develop collaboratively
• Be fair, reliable, and valid
Depth of Knowledge
• Do assessment items match expectations in their cognitive demand?
– Recall– Skills Concepts– Strategic Thinking– Extended Thinking
Evaluation Process
• Identify assessment types.
• Align and determine frequency.
• Evaluate item quality.
• Plan for revision and administration.
Assessment Types
• Selected response
• Short answer
• Constructed response
• Performance assessment
• Teacher observed
“Unwrapping” the power standards
• Using the Content Expectation Worksheet, “unpack” the power standards.
– Identify what mastery would look like
– Identify possible forms of assessment
Match to Standards
• Align each item to a standard.
• Are the power standards emphasized?
• How many items are matched to each standard?
• Are there any standards not represented?
• Are there standards over-represented?
Assessment Data
• Summary Data – what to look at
• Sample reports
• Look at classroom reports
• Look at individual student reports
Assessment Data Review Math
As a group, identify next possible steps you would need to take as a department or grade level.
Assessment Data Review ELA
• As a table, examine the qualities of the student score on the rubric.
• Identify next steps for advancing student writing based on the rubric.
• Identify next steps for instruction based on student needs.
Formative Assessment
What it is– Progress check
– Non-threatening practice – “Safe dipstick”
– Feedback to the student
– Dictates next steps for instruction
– Pre-test
Formative Assessment
What it is NOT
– Graded Quiz
– Graded homework
– Graded class discussion
– Ignored
Power of Formative Assessment
• Identify student’s current understanding.
• Communicate to student, next steps to reach mastery.
• Indicate student’s progress toward mastery.
• Indicate readiness for summative assessment.
Feedback• Needs to be timely.
• Focuses on objectives
• Specifically identifies student success and actions for improvement.
• Comments focus on closing the gap between current and desired performance.
• Students need time to revise work.
• Occasionally done collaboratively.