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Bob CornacchioliCEO – DERO Technical Services
Contractor- PowerDataSolutions
Trainer – Pearson Systems
Evangelist/Process Assistant- Level Data
Marketing- Parkbench Software
Director of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs)PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs)
CURRICULUM/ADMIN & TECHNICAL
Collaborate and learn the constraints
DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND
S T A N D A R D SCHEDULE
C O U R S S
S C L E S
IDENTIFIER
F I N A L G R A D E E N T R YGRADEBOOK
STANDARDS
65 Character Limit
STANDARDS • Create the standards collaboratively- Excel• Teacher Involvement = Ownership• Less is more- 65 character limit• Report Card vs. Curriculum Guide• Core Content vs. Specials• Essential Skills, Effort or Habits of Mind• Assessment Per Term• Changes and Real Estate – Text vs. #• Conversion Scales- Drop Downs for Teachers
Conversion Scales
Habits of Mind/Effort
Proficiency LevelsGrades 1-8 / MCAS
Proficiency LevelsFor K
Homebound Assessment
• Avoid Confusion- Adjust Rubrics and assessments
Sending Home Letter Grades and Percentages will confuse Parents
and Students
STANDARDS by TERM
Final Grade Entry For Teachers
Changing Allow
Assignments is NOT
Recommended… Union Issue!
Unique Course Number Schema
65601First two digits = Content AreaMiddle digit = School IDLast two digits = Grade Level
Highlands = 0Smith = 1Riverside = 2Thorpe = 3Great Oak =4
65000, 65001, 65002, 65003, 65004, 6500565100, 65101, 65102, 65103, 65104, 6510565200, 65201, 65202, 65203, 65204, 6520565300, 65301, 65302, 65303, 65304, 6530565400, 65401, 65402, 65403, 65404, 65405
Can be used for
AM/PM K etc
Importing Standards via Excel
What does Allowassignment do?
TRUE means- Allow Teacher Choice from Pull Down!
Hey Bob, All these standards report on the same course number?
Importing Standards via Excel
What does Includecomment do?
FALSE means- No Comment for that standard allowed!
Importing Standards via Excel
Where do I get these Conversionscale Numbers?
Requires Internal Pearson Number in this Excel Spreadsheet!
Conversion Scale #?
• Gen Table (6)
• Search for “scale”
Next Steps
• Communication with:– Teachers - expectations for comments– Parents – how to interpret 4,3,2,1/your scale(s)
• Create Standards– # of standards per content area per term– Altering Rubrics / Common Assessments
• Create the Conversion Scales• Create Sample Report Cards before EOY
Web Gradebook Record Keeping
Tying Assignments to Standards
Latest version of web gradebook… Assignment grades use grade scalesStandards use conversion scalesGrades associated with an assignment do not transfer to a standard grade. The standards associated with an assignment would also have to be graded. If one or more standards associated with an assignment is graded, you have some choices – average, high etc
Assignments - Standards
Grade Value of Conversions Scales
When teachers assess a standard more than once associated to multiple assignments, PTG averages these scores. Grade Value can’t be ZERO as seen earlier in this presentation.
Depending upon which standard based educator your curriculum folks have read, the concept of AVERAGE isn’t part of the standards movement- YET the Gradebook has to apply some sort equation in order to convert scores to these Grade Labels 4,3,2,1.
As more districts use this new found functionality with the Gradebook and report back to Pearson for modifications- the averaging of standards scores assigned to multiple assignments will be come clearer.
This page is still evolving!!!!
Controlling Web Gradebook
If defined as PT Admin** - School Usage – Site Specific!!
Calculations
Using PT Admin- your district will have to set policy on grading standards. The Gradebook will have to be set per school to look: •Default setting for final grades•Allow teacher modifications OR NOT•Calculations for Most Recent Scores
Training Teachers to Grade
• Final Grade Entry• Specialists vs. HR teachers • 5 mins. with a PPT presentation• Web Gradebook – A bit more time
( JING Movies/Atomic Learning/Mastery in Minutes?)
• Comments- Comments- Comments
Have you thought about Report Cards?
• Parent Portal – access to grades – list form• NOT DYNAMIC – all must be custom made• Object Reports- Visual PST – Report Works• Summative• Multi-page requires duplex printers
• http://schools.shrewsbury-ma.gov/egov/docs/1251933966124.htm
