1. Assessments as an Essential Component of Instruction Board of Education Presentation May 6, 2014

2. How does assessment serve students? Personalized learning environment ◦ re-teaching ◦ extensions ◦ Granite Connection Interventions ◦ Special Education ◦ ESL supports Special programs access ◦ dual immersion language ◦ accelerated learning College, career and life readiness ◦ applications ◦ scholarships ◦ grants

3. How does assessment serve teachers? Differentiated classroom instruction ◦ lesson planning ◦ re-teaching/remediation ◦ extensions ◦ PLC data

4. How does testing serve the Granite School District Community? Provides feedback to parents, schools, and board regarding student and school achievement. Complies with state and federal assessment and accountability requirements.

5. Why so much testing? Granite School District ◦ improve student achievement ◦ inform instruction Utah ◦ develop tests measuring Utah core ◦ replace national norm-referenced tests ◦ demonstrate return on investment (ROI) United States (since 1988) ◦ increase rigor in curriculum ◦ improve student learning compared to international peers

6. How do other districts compare? (See Handout)

7. What changes are coming in Granite School District? (See Handout)

8. What assessments are selected by schools? Common Formative Assessments Teacher selected ◦ end of unit/chapter ◦ formative/summative created by teacher Software based assessments ◦ My Access Unaligned

9. What problems have we experienced in assessment? Technical ◦ problems with the browser ◦ availability of platforms (purchased and self-developed Alignment ◦ content accuracy ◦ consistency with core objectives PLC ◦ availability of time ◦ ability to assemble and disaggregate reports

10. What are we doing right now? Benchmark questions available to teachers Ongoing review and adjustment ELA benchmarks being replaced ◦ teacher committee recruited ◦ replacing benchmarks owned by CTB McGraw-Hill ◦ incorporating protocol  align to Utah core  accuracy ( content, grade appropriate, depth of knowledge)  technically sound (distractor analysis, on-going p-value analysis)