1. Using Student Assessments to Inform Teacher Practice Fred Cohen Nassau BOCES Consultant 516-608-6640 fredcohendata@gmail.com 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 How can New York State Assessment results be used to improve the practice of teaching? Getting the right information into the right hands is the key to success!

2. Using Student Assessments to Inform Teacher Practice is Entirely Different from Using Student Assessments to Measure Teacher Effectiveness 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 Someone recently said that using test scores to measure teacher effectiveness is more akin to informing “on” teacher practice than actually informing teachers on ways to improve the practice of teaching. Today’s presentation makes no judgment about using test scores to evaluate teachers.

3. A brief reminder: A Teacher’s need to be informed about her or his own students— and the teacher’s own instructional practices—was the original purpose of most Instructional Data Warehouses. 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 FC’s first observation

4. What must every teacher know about her or his students? (What FC did not know did indeed hurt him and his students!) 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 The Data Warehouse’s first “report”—the Child Assessment Profile (ChAP) Report Other reports to inform teachers about student performance.

5. 1. Required Information prior to the opening of school—The Child Assessment Profile (ChAP) Report or any other summary of student assessment histories 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

6. 2. On Nov 1, detailed information about each student’s performance on the previous assessments. 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

7. 2B. Information available NOW for 2011-2012 teachers on the current Teacher Interface 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

8. Including Constructed Response Questions 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

9. These analyses inform me how my students performed on last year’s assessments. 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 Compare these reports to other reports on teacher performance. Is a teacher’s HEDI score more or less informative? What other reports are available from a typical data warehouse?

10. 1. A District ELA 4 Gap Report 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

11. 2. Teacher A ELA 4 Gap Report 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

12. 3. Teacher B ELA 4 Gap Report 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

13. Living Env. District Gap Report 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

14. One Teacher’s LE Gap Report 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

15. Wrong Answer Pattern Analysis 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

16. HEDI—Single Evaluative Metric for a Teacher 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 Gap Reports offer 1.Question by question analysis of teacher strengths and weaknesses when compared to a benchmark 2.Opportunity for collaboration with colleagues who display different (or similar) patterns of success 3.Skill by skill or genre by genre analysis of teacher strengths and weaknesses (MC vs CR)

17. Subgroup Analysis Reports 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 Subgroup analyses offer important insights for districts, schools and teachers. How can districts, schools and teachers with many at-risk students compete with districts, schools and teachers that have mainly low-risk populations? Subgroup analysis is the key.

18. District Snapshot 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 Imagine a District Derf in Nehoc County on planet Farfaraway with the following characteristics. There are three population groups on the planet— the Long-ears, the Wide ears, and the No ears. Derf’s LE students outperform county LE; Derf’s WE students outperform county WE; and Derf’s NE students outperform county NE. Yet Derf’s overall performance is well below the County Nehoc’s. Huh?

19. Planet Farfaraway 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

20. District X

27. And finally, do teachers, administrators and counselors encourage participation at the highest level of study? 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 Test one—a more nuanced assessment of Regents results—“percent of enrollment passing” Test two—a more nuanced assessment of Advanced Placement result—“percent of enrollment passing”

28. Regents Participation and Performance 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

29. Regents Participation and Performance 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

30. AP Participation and Performance 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590

31. Using Student Assessments to Inform Teacher Practice Fred Cohen Nassau BOCES Consultant 516-608-6640 fredcohendata@gmail.com 1 Merrick Ave Westbury NY 11590 How can New York State Assessment results be used to improve the practice of teaching? Getting the right information into the right hands is the key to success!