MISSOURI PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS An Overview

Content of the Assessments 2  Pre-Service Teacher Assessments  Entry Level  Exit Level  School Leader Performance Assessment  Librarian Performance Assessment  Counselor Performance Assessment

Pre-Service Entry Assessment

Entry Assessment 4  Completed by the candidate immediately after acceptance into the teacher preparation program  Content created by the development team based on the Missouri Teacher Standards and Indicators, Mid- Preparation column  Will provide a baseline that will be compared to the results of the exit assessment based on the Candidate Column of the same standards  Developed for program evaluation

Overview of the Pre-Service Exit Assessment

Overview 6  Is embedded in the clinical experience  Offers four tasks: one formative, three summative  Focuses on the Missouri Teacher Standards and Indicators (Candidate Column)  Is sequential and developmental in approach  Contains an observation component  Provides a focus on the development of reflective skills  Connects to a Professional Competency Profile

Commonalities of the Tasks 7  Each task will require  A written commentary that responds to a series of prompts,  The submission of artifacts, and  A rubric that closely connects the appropriate standards and indicators with the task directions and guiding prompts.  All tasks will be authored and scored within an online environment.

Additional Aspects of the Assessment 8  Task responses will show growth over time and will be connected to  Direct Observations  Reflection  Feedback  Professional Competency Profile  Student Survey

Additional Aspects of the Assessment 9  Collaboration between the Educator Preparation Program (EPP) faculty and cooperating teachers  Accessibility to a personal online library to store artifacts  Scheduled window of time to complete each task, with Tasks 2 and 3 being interchangeable  Task 4 completed after the other tasks have been submitted

Task Content

The Task Topics 11  Task1: Knowledge of Students and the Learning Environment  Task 2: Assessment and Data Collection to Measure Student Learning  Task 3: Instruction and Technology  Task 4: Culminating Activity with a fifteen-minute video *The above are topics of the tasks; official names will be determined by the development team

School Leader Librarian Counselor Three Other Assessments

The School Leader Assessment

Tasks 14  Task 1: Problem Solving in the Field  Task 2: Supporting Teacher leadership  Task 3: School/District-Wide Professional Development *The above are topics of the tasks; official names will be determined by the development team

The School Librarian Assessment

Tasks 16  Task 1: Promoting Access  Task 2: Collaborative Research  Task 3: Understanding, Selecting, and Implementing Technology *The above are topics of the tasks; official names will be determined by the development team

The School Counselor Assessment

The Tasks 18  Task 1: Maintaining and Enhancing the Guidance Program  Task 2: Organizing, Responding and Offering Support  Task 3: Interacting with the Classroom, the Faculty and/or Parent/Guardian *The above are topics of the tasks; official names will be determined by the development team

Commonalities among the Three Advanced Assessments

Commonalities among the Assessments 20  All tasks within each assessment will require  A written commentary that responds to a series of prompts, and  The submission of artifacts.  All tasks will be  Based on the relevant Missouri standards.  Authored and scored within an online environment.

Commonalities 21  Require a video within one task.  Connect the required activities to a clinical experience.  Connect to a professional growth plan.  Offer a personal online library for the collection of artifacts.

The Pre-Service Assessment The Small-Scale Tryout The Pilot Pilot Scoring How Are You Able to Get Involved?

Your Involvement: May-July  The Tryout: an informal, small-scale “rough draft” response to directions and prompts created by the development team  You would only need to respond to one draft task and complete a feedback survey.  Your response would be based on the idea, “If I were responding to these prompts, this is what I, as a teacher candidate, would do.”  Your response could be in bulleted format.  Your response would provide feedback to the revision process.

Your Involvement for Fall  The Pilot is a more formal, large-scale field test of the tasks and rubrics.  We need your help to recruit 250 student teachers.  We need diversity in the responses we receive based on: Geography Ethnicity Content area Developmental level

Your Involvement for Fall  Pilot participants will need to mirror the Pre-Service Assessment process by: Responding to all four tasks in the appropriate sequence within the online authoring system. Creating a written commentary that addresses all the guiding prompts. Providing appropriate artifacts. Providing a fifteen-minute video in response to Task 4 directions.

Your Involvement for Fall  Participants will need to complete a feedback survey for each completed task.  The development team will provide a Pilot Participant Guide for help in creating the task responses and related activities.  This will provide focus for the EPP instructors, cooperating teachers, and student teachers.

Your Involvement for Fall  DESE/EPPs will be supplied a technical report on the pilot that will outline the process, outcomes, information learned, and feedback from the participant surveys  Pilot participants will not receive scores from the pilot as the pilot is intended to inform the development of the assessment. Participants will receive recognition for their participation

Your Involvement for Spring  Pilot Scoring: Score all participant submissions twice  Be trained in the requirements of the tasks  Be trained in the scoring process  Participate in the Formative Review process  Review the participant feedback surveys  Complete a form that provides ideas to the development team for revision of the task directions, prompts, and rubrics

Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment Scoring 2015

30  Training and scoring will be online.  The training process will be developed by ETS.  Missouri educators will be trained as raters, scoring leaders, and scoring directors.  Training will include in-depth study of benchmark and training cases.  All raters will be calibrated on a regular basis during the scoring sessions.

Scoring  ETS research and statistics areas will collect data on a regular basis in order to maintain reliability.  Standard setting (establishing of the cut score) will occur in spring  The Missouri Pre-Service Assessment will be consequential fall of 2015.

Missouri Pre-Service Assessment Timeline

Timeline 33  February 25-27: Examination of the characteristics of the teacher candidate and the standards and indicators being assessed  April 15-19: Connection of the standards and indicators to the four tasks. Development of the first draft of each task  May 1 to July 1: Small-scale tryout of the first drafts of the tasks

Timeline 34  July 15-19: Review of the tryout responses, revision of the tasks, and the development of the rubrics  September 1, 2013 to January 1, 2014: Large- scale field test (Pilot). Recruitment of raters for Pilot scoring  March 2014: Scoring of Pilot responses  Fall 2014: The MO Pre-Service Teacher Assessment goes operational

Timeline 35  Spring 2015: Standard Setting  Fall 2015: MO Pre-Service Teacher Assessment becomes consequential

The School Leader Assessment Timeline

Timeline 37  1 st Committee Meeting June 2013  2 nd Committee Meeting July/August 2013  3 rd Committee Meeting November 2013  Pilot – Spring 2014  Fall 2014: The School Leader Assessment goes operational

The School Librarian and School Counselor Assessment Timeline’s

Timeline 39  1 st Committee Meetings January 2014  2 nd Committee Meetings March 2014  3 rd Committee Meetings June 2014  Pilot – Fall 2014  Fall 2015: The School Librarian and School Counselor Assessments go operational

Contacts 40  Cathy Owens-Oliver  Client Relations Director   609/  Ethan Taylor  Client Management Director   609/

Questions 41 Thank You!