Assessment Literacy Tuesday, August 20, 2013 Jennifer Putman, Liaison

Comprehensive Assessment and Data System in GCISD Summative Assessment—1 time per year Data about Learner—2-4 times per year (purchased assessments) District Common Assessments—End of Unit and/or grading period (District Created) Curriculum Based Assessments—1-4 times per month (Teacher/Team created) Formative Classroom Assessments (AFL Strategies) Daily Benchmarks & Cornerstone Tasks MAP, TELPAS, CogAT, DRA2, progress monitoring STAAR, End of Unit, Sem. Exams, ACT/SAT Assessments for Learning

Performance Indexes that determine Accountability: 1.% of students passing state assessment 2.% of students who met progress or exceeded progress (STAAR Level II and III) 3.% of students in performance gap groups passing state assessment 4.Graduation rate/DAP Rate (not applicable to us) Accountability

 What do students learn in the previous two grades to prepare them?  How will students use the learning next year?  Readiness Standards  Supporting Standards  Process Standards TEKS Literacy

 Essential for success in current grade level  Prepares students for success in next grade level  Require in-depth instruction  Addresses broad and deep ideas Readiness Standards

 Introduced OR reinforced in the current grade level  May be emphasized in the previous grade level OR the next grade level  Prepares students for success in the next grade level  Addresses narrow ideas Supporting Standards

Readiness vs. Supporting

 The “process” of how students gain and demonstrate knowledge  Represents strategies students use to access learning  Represents the way a student communicates learning Process Standards

 Levels of Concern  Challenging (red) = < 70%  Moderate (orange) = 70 – 79%  Low-Risk (yellow) = 80 – 100% Heat Maps

1.Analyze data – what percentage change do you notice for each standard? (+ or - ) 2.Find areas of strength – what are we doing that works? Keep doing it! Which kids still need support? 3.Find areas of concern – what do we need to do and learn before we teach this again? Which kids still need support? 4.Determine focus standards (3 lowest standards) 5.Create and implement CBAs 6.Follow up with Data Teams Process in PLCs Data Teams Process

Determining our Focus Standards Vertical Teams: 30 minutes  Reading – Library  Math – Jami’s room  Science – Art room

 Grade Level Teams –discuss and chart 3 focus standards for the year  Be ready to share! Determining our Focus Standards

Quality Assessments Friday, August 23, 2013

  Accessing questions based on standard  Creating tests DMAC

 Grades 3 – 5: in team leader’s room, use DMAC and 3 focus standards (Tuesday) to create a CBA  Grades K – 2: in library with Jennifer and Jami for types of assessments and how to create quality assessments using focus standards (Tuesday) Developing Quality Assessments

 Selected Response – multiple choice, true/false, matching, fill-in the blank with answer choices provided  Constructed Response (Open Ended Response) – open ended questions, fill in the blank with no answer choices provided, students are asked to reason or justify thinking Types of Assessment Responses

IDP – The Intentional Design Process

The student applies mathematical process standards to represent and compare whole numbers, the relative position and magnitude of whole numbers, and relationships within the numeration system related to place value. The student is expected to: (B) use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 120 in more than one way as so many hundreds, so many tens, and so many ones; TEKS 1.2B – Number and Operations

What number does this picture represent? (selected response question) A) 12 B) 39 C) 40 D) 38

True or False? (Selected Response) =

Lisa built the number 42 using the blocks below. Is she correct? How do you know?

 Rubrics for constructed response  Can be scored quickly and results used right away  4-7 questions total Curriculum Based Assessments

 Use focus standards (choose 1)  Use the IDP-short cut to IDP with your team  Create a curriculum based assessment with 3 questions (selected response and constructed response) Curriculum Based Assessment K-2

We can not accomplish all that we need to do without working together. -Bill Richardson Reflection