Making Evidence Based Claims about Your Teaching

TPA BootcampLisa Borgerding and Joanne Caniglia

Task III Assessment

Which Tasks Require You to Make Claims?

You are expected to analyze your students thinking and learning in edTPA Task 3.

You must support your explanations by citing specific evidence from video clips and/or student work samples.

Which is more convincing?

A. Most of my students did well on the project

B. As shown in the pie chart, 70% of the students attained Level 3 or 4 scores on the project.

YOU NEED EVIDENCE

Types of Assessment

Pre Assessment Ideas KWL Charts Graphic Organizers Pre-test Response Cards Student Discussions/ Think/Pair/Share Show of hands/EPR (Every Pupil Response) Standardized Test Data Teacher Observation Writing Prompts Writing Samples

Formative Assessment

Cooperative Learning Activities Exit Cards Concept Maps Interviews KWLs Questioning Oral Presentations Learning Logs

Summative Assessment Benchmark Test Chapter Test Unit Test Performance Task Product/Exhibit Demonstration Portfolio Review

Look for Themes

Item Analysis Pre/Post

Rubrics

Take questions from parents. Ask parents to fill out a questionnaire

about their child. Have them describe areas in which they

would like to see their child improve. Have them describe their child's

personality, interests, and talents.

Rubrics

Rubrics must match objectives

Make sure your claims are based on the rubric..

Representing Your Data

Using Numbers

When you have class scores to report, be sure to use appropriate & relevant statistics Average Standard deviation Range of scores

Using Graphs/Charts

When do you use a…

Bar graph

Pie chart

Narrative

• Use direct quotations from students’ papers and from video

• Be sure to reference where in the video/assessments you obtained quotes.

• Do NOT identify students

• Be SPECIFIC ABOUT EXAMPLES

Tips and Tricks for the TPA

Outline your writing – what are your major claims about your students’ performance for each rubric? What evidence do you have to support your claims?

More edTPA Tips Make it obvious

for your reviewers which aspects of the TPA rubrics you are addressing. To do this:

(1) Use the same language used in the TPA handbook.

(2) Refer to specific elements present in the rubrics.

Tips for TPA

Report for the whole target class as well as the 3 focus students.

3-2-1

Turn to a person and tell them:

3 types of assessment 2 ways to use evidence in

your TPA 1 thing that you learned

that you’ll use this semester.