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Presentation from the April 2012 Independent Curriculum Group conference, "New Directions in Assessment." A quick overview of new assessments and some novel ways to use conventional assessments, based on work by Doug Lyons and Andrew Niblock.
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Heads Up!The Other Kind of
Assessment, and Why It Matters
Peter Gow(with enormous thanks to Doug
Lyons, CAIS-CT, and Andrew Niblock, Hamden Hall CDS)
ICG: New Directions in AssessmentApril 21, 2012
Your Factoid of the Day
Beginning with the current cycle, independent school accreditation in every region will require evidence of data-informed decision making in the area of academic program
Several regions (ISASW, Canada) require school-wide (or regular and broad-based) data-gathering on academic performance as a part of their accreditation process
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The Holy Grail
In an ideal world we would have easy access to
assessments that measure things that our schools claim to value
assessments that have credibility within our wider communities as well as within our walls
assessments that generate data that is easy both to comprehend and to translate into better instruction and programming
assessments that are easy to administerICG April 2012
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Some Pre-Suppositions
The new accreditation requirements are based on some not-necessarily correct assumptions:
1.That schools are familiar with appropriate assessment tools that will provide useful data
2.That schools have the expertise to make the most skillful and informed use of data
3.That tools of the sort we need already existICG April 2012
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New kinds of assessments focused on “21st-century learning capacities”
Performance-task-based:CWRA: College and Work Readiness Assessment (ICG folks know all about this)
C-PAS: College-readiness Performance Assessment System (from the Educational Policy Improvement Center—David Conley)
CBAL: Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning (from Educational Testing Service)
iSkills: Information and Communication Technology skills assessment (from ETS)
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New kinds of assessments focused on “21st-century learning capacities”
Attitudinal/motivational/”habits of mind”-based:HSSSE: The High School Survey of Student Engagement (moribund for the moment, alas)
CSEQ: College Student Experiences Questionnaire
ISHC: Independent School Health Check
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New Ways of Engaging with “International” Assessments
The CAIS TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) question database—create and score your own “TIMMS” assessment
The school-based PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment, from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Search “released items” for real test questions for a host of large-scale assessments (NAEP, state)ICG April 2012
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Squeezing More Data from Commonly Available
AssessmentsUse the EXPLORE-PLAN-ACT sequence
USE that ERB data
Get the fine points from PSAT SOAS (Summary of Answers and Skills) reports
Consider the “School-Day SAT With Enhanced Scoring”—student and item-level data, skill reports
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For a whole lot more information, see Lyons & Niblock, “Measuring What We Value” (NAISAC12):
http://www.caisct.org/RelId/630134/ISvars/default/NAIS_PRESENTATION.htm
