1. Assessing Student Outcomes An Analysis of “KELPA”

2.  It is a Language Assessment to measure English Proficiency.  It is part of the assessment program of the Kansas State Board of education and mandated by the Kansas State Legislature.  It produces data to capture trends across the state related to ESL students.  It is the instrument employed by the state to measure progress in meeting the Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAOS) for Title III.  And the data is utilized to base decisions correlated to instructional design for ESL/ELL students.

3. WHAT “TRIGGERS” A KELPA? WHO IS TESTED? HOW ARE STUDENT IDENTIFIED FOR TESTING At enrollment, a home language survey (HLS) is filled out by parents. If on HLS the parents indicate the presences of a language other than English at home a KELPA or a KELPA-P is triggered. Students who have not scored “Fluent” on the KELPA Students new to the district who do not score “Fluent” on KELPA-P A parent can waive language instructional support and programming for their child, however, based on Federal mandates the child must be tested, if the parents have indicated on HLS a language other than English at home.

4. KELPA is a yearly Assessment offered spring to spring (Feb. 6 – Apr. 29, 2011) The KELPA – P is given to students for placement of students during the regular year. The test has been designed by grade bands: K – 1, 2 – 3, 4 – 5, 6 – 8, 9 – 12 The KELPA is administered by using paper pencil forms only.

5. ADMINISTRATION OF TEST K – 1 all components individually administered 2 – 12 Listening, Reading, and Writing are Group administered K – 12 Speaking individually administered Listening items are on audio CD for grades 2 – 12 Total time for Test: 2 hrs If a student cannot answer three question in a row, testing in that domain may be stopped You must, however, begin each domain

6. TEST EXAMINERS Examiners must be English Proficient Examiners must receive prior training They must read manual for test they will administer

7. PRELIMINARY NUMBER OF ESL STUDENTS AT DCMS 2010 - 2011 GradeBeginningIntermediateAdvancedFluent 79589840 85447829 Total1410217869 What does it mean? Beginning – Intermediate – Advanced – Fluent (Handouts)

8. In their book Assessing Student Outcomes (1993), Marzano, Pickering, and McTighe, describe two distinct types of Knowledge: Procedural Knowledge: Can be thought of as skills and strategies. Algorithms which are procedures or steps that must executed in a set order. (Doing three-column addition is a skill) Declarative Knowledge: is information and can be ordered somewhat hierarchically according to its generality. At the bottom of the hierarchy are facts about specific persons, places, things, and events; at the top are concepts and generalizations. “John Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963” is a fact. The statement “People holding high political office put their lives in jeopardy” is a generalization. The phrase “political assassination” is a concept.

9. Listening Reading Declarative 7 Procedural 2 Total Questions 9 Declarative 9 Procedural 20 Total Questions 29

10. ITEM ANALYSIS CONTINUED Writing Speaking Declarative 6 Procedural 11 Total Questions 17 Declarative8 Procedural1 Total Questions9

11. BLOOM’S TAXONOMY AND WEBB’S DOK Levels of Thinking DeclarativeTaskWebb’s DOK ProceduralTaskWebb’s DOK Evaluation3 Predict Assess 2323 Synthesis1arrange 1 Analysis Application Comprehension Knowledge11 Relate Recognize recall 211211 1order 2 Listening

12. BLOOM’S TAXONOMY AND WEBB’S DOK Levels of Thinking DeclarativeTaskWebb’s DOK ProceduralTaskWebb’s DOK Evaluation2 Predict estimate 2222 10 Assess compare 3232 Synthesis Analysis2 Contrast analyze 2424 5 Comp/cont Analysis discriminate 243243 Application1 apply 3 Comprehension2 Classify Identify 2121 Knowledge2 recall1 5 Recall recognize 1111 Reading

13. BLOOM’S TAXONOMY AND WEBB’S DOK Levels of Thinking DeclarativeTaskWebb’s DOK ProceduralTaskWebb’s DOK Evaluation 2Appraise23 2 Synthesis Analysis 1Appraise22Discriminate appraise 2222 Application 2choose2 Comprehension 1recognize1 Knowledge 3Recall22recall1 Writing

14. BLOOM’S TAXONOMY AND WEBB’S DOK Levels of Thinking DeclarativeTaskWebb’s DOK ProceduralTaskWebb’s DOK Evaluation 3predict2 Synthesis 1prepare2 Analysis Application Comprehension Knowledge 5Recall Name describe 112112 Speaking

17. Data ESL Endorsement Bilingual Funding SpeakingListeningReadingwriting Instructional Design Federal Mandate KELPA

18. CONCLUSION Questions