EAGLE Teacher Workshops

EAGLE Teacher Workshops

Louisiana Department of Educationand

Pacific Metrics CorporationAugust/September 2010

Overview of Workshop

What is EAGLE? What is Formative Assessment? Seven Strategies of Formative Assessment EAGLE Content and Item Types High School Courses Targeted EAGLE Item Bank Statistics and Development Schedule EAGLE Test-taking tools Science Periodic Table & Test Scheduling Function Usage Statistics Premade Tests (Pre and Post diagnostic and premade unit tests) 15-minute Break EAGLE Training Site (Using Hands-on Activities) EAGLE Reports for Students and Teachers Support Services Workshop Evaluation and More Practice with Hands-on Activities

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What is EAGLE?

Enhanced Assessment of Grade-level Expectations

EAGLE is an online system for teachers and students that provides detailed feedback about student learning of GLEs.

Teachers and students are involved in assessment FOR learning so that the teaching-learning process can be adjusted at timely intervals.

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How can Teachers use EAGLE?

• Create quizzes with items aligned to GLEs• Use a premade diagnostic test for pre and post assessment• Assign quizzes/tests to entire class or individual students• Communicate with students using the Message Center• Learn to score CR items with the Hand Scoring Tutorial• View immediate results for MC and some SA items• Analyze reports showing class and individual student performance• Link directly to instructional resources aligned to the GLEs• Make timely interventions to adjust instruction and students’ learning

throughout the school year• Use EAGLE as a tool to support formative assessment activities

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• Take quizzes/tests online to measure GLE-based skills

• Receive immediate results for MC and some SA items

• View meaningful reports showing actual performance compared to goal set by teacher

• Communicate with teacher using the Message Center

• Assess mastery of GLEs using the Student Self-assessment Report

• Learn to make adjustments to their own learning of the GLEs

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How can Students use EAGLE?

What is Formative Assessment?

Formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning for the purpose of improving students’ achievement of intended instructional outcomes.*

*Formative Assessment for Students and Teachers (FAST) SCASS meeting in Austin, Texas, Oct 2006. http://www.ccsso.org/projects/scass/projects/formative_assessment_for_students_and_teachers/11541.cfm

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How can EAGLE SupportFormative Assessment

Activities?

Student-friendly GLEs—help teachers communicate goals and expectations with students.

Student Reports—show students how they are progressing on each GLE tested and foster self-assessment.

Teacher Reports—inform teachers how individual students and the class as a whole are progressing on each GLE that has been tested.

Focused Instruction—Teachers may choose individual items to use during instruction as a means of integrating Formative Assessment into the daily learning process.

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Sample of Student Report by Test

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Seven Strategies of Formative Assessment

1. Provide students with a clear and understandable vision of each learning target.

2. Show examples of strong and weak work.3. Offer descriptive feedback on a regular basis.4. Teach students to self-assess and set goals.5. Design lessons to focus on one learning

target or aspect of quality at a time.6. Teach students focused revision.7. Engage students in SELF-REFLECTION, and

allow them to keep track of and share their learning.

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How to create a Student-friendly LEARNING TARGET

GLE 27—Identify and plot points on a coordinate grid in the first quadrant.

GLE Student-friendly version: Plot and name points on a coordinate grid. (Student friendly GLEs are available in EAGLE.)

Word(s) to be defined: ‘coordinate grid’

Definition(s) of word(s) the student may not understand:A coordinate grid has two perpendicular lines, or axes, labeled like number lines. The horizontal line is called the x-axis. The vertical line is called the y-axis. The point where the lines cross is called the origin. (Show the students a picture with the x- and y-axes and origin labeled.)

Student-friendly learning target: Have students use “I am learning to …” statements: “I am learning to plot and name points on an x, y grid.”

Example: Grade 5 Math GLE 27

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Show Students HowScoring Rubrics Work

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Content and Item Types in EAGLE

ELA• Engaging, illustrated passages• Multiple choice: 1 pt.• Short answer: 2 pts.• Extended response: 4 pts. • Writing prompts: 12 pts. • Colorful, interactive items: 3 pts.

MATH• Multiple choice: 1 pt.• Short answer: 1 and 2 pts.• Extended response: 4 pts. • Colorful, interactive items: 3 pts.

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Content and Item Types in EAGLE

Science•Multiple choice: 1 pt.•Short answer: 2 pts.•Extended response: 4 pts.

Social Studies•Multiple choice: 1 pt.•Short answer: 1 and 2 pts.•Extended response: 4 pts.

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High School Content Added in the

2009–2010 School YearScience―May 2010 Science as Inquiry Physical Science Biology Earth Science Chemistry Physics Environmental

Science

Social Studies―May 2010

World Geography Free Enterprise Civics US History World History

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EAGLE Item Bank Statistics

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8,143 Total Items Math: 2,386 ELA: 2,626 Science:1,532 Social

Studies: 1,599

Grade Math ELA    High School Course ScienceSocial Studies

3 269 252   Life Science 248  4 383 428   Environmental Sciences 151  5 194 287   Chemistry 239  6 226 237   Physics 239  7 244 239   Earth and Space Science 155  8 293 266   Physical Science 251  9 346 327 Science as Inquiry 24910 241 300   Free Enterprise   295

11/12 190 290   World Geography   326Total 2386 2626   World History   329

  Civics   312  American History   337

Total 1532 1599

EAGLE Item Development Schedule

Release Date

MATH ELA SCI SS

May 2007 4, 9 4

May 2008 8, 10–12 8–12

May 2009 3, 5, 6, 7 3, 5, 6, 7

May 2010 HS HS

May 2011 1, 2 1, 2 4, 8 4, 8

May 2012 3, 5, 6, 7 3, 5, 6, 7

TOTAL 1–12 1–12 3–8, HS 3–8, HS

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EAGLE Online Test-taking Tools

Rulers (inch and cm) Protractors Math Calculators Science Metric Ruler Scientific Calculator Science Periodic Table

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Science Periodic Chart

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Test Scheduling/Assignment ScreenShowing Option to Display Periodic

Table

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EAGLE Premade TestsELA: 82 tests across grades 3–12Math: 108 tests across grades 3–12Science: 52 tests across HS coursesSocial Studies: 63 tests across HS courses

Designed to be taken in one class period One pretest and one post-test for each subject and grade

level One premade test for each Comprehensive Curriculum

Unit May be saved as a new test with new name and then

modified ELA tests are designed using scaffolding (the ordering of

items from simple to complex)

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EAGLE Premade Tests Screen

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Must say Training in white

Click to request Guest Account

The EAGLE Training site is designed to conduct group trainings and for individuals to practice using EAGLE. The site has limited grade 4 content and user data is retained for only one month.

EAGLE Training Site

Return to Training site

Task 2—Add a Student to a School Roster

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Task 3—Add a Student to the Class Roster from the School Roster

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Task 5—Create a Test by Content Standard

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Task 6—Schedule the Test You Created

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Log out as a teacher by clicking Logout in the upper right corner of the screen. Now log in as a student using the username and password you wrote down in Task 2.

Task 12—Take Test Assigned by Teacher

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Task 12—Take Test Assigned by Teacher

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Self-Assessment Student Worksheet Report

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Student Report by Test

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EAGLE Classroom Reports

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Report by GLE ShowingIndividual Students’

Performance

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Analysis of Test Questions Report

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Instructional Needs byGrade-level Expectation

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EAGLE Support Services

EAGLE Training Site User Guide/Contextual Help Teacher and Student Tutorials System Requirements Document Help Desk:

toll free: 1-866-552-5583 e-mail:

[email protected]

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Questions and Comments

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