Assessment and Assessment and Accountability: Six Accountability: Six Habits of a Highly Habits of a Highly Effective District Effective District Presented By Assessment Technology Incorporated Jason Feld Vice President Joseph Sassone Assistant Superintendent Ruth McKenna Project Director, LAPDS For ScooksMovingUp Online Event 9/21/05
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Assessment and Assessment and
Accountability: Six Accountability: Six Habits of a Highly Habits of a Highly Effective DistrictEffective District
Presented By
Assessment TechnologyIncorporated
Jason FeldVice President
Joseph Sassone Assistant
Superintendent
Ruth McKenna Project Director,
LAPDS
For ScooksMovingUp Online Event 9/21/05
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Welcome & House KeepingWelcome & House Keeping
Discussion Formats
Quick Polling
Q & A via the Phone
Type messages into chat area
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What is Your Role?What is Your Role?
a. Administratorb. Teacherc. Policy-Makerd. Other
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What is the size of your school What is the size of your school district (by student enrollment)?district (by student enrollment)?
a. 2,000-5,000b. 5,001-10,000c. 10,001-25,000d. > 25,000
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Local Accountability SystemLocal Accountability SystemSix Habits of Effective DistrictsSix Habits of Effective Districts
• Essential Standards• Instruction• Assessments• Using and Reporting Results• Professional Development• Leadership
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Essential Standards Based Essential Standards Based Upon the State AssessmentUpon the State Assessment
• Identify the “Top Twenty” necessary to demonstrate proficiency on the state assessment.
• Re-write the standards in “Student Friendly Language.”
• Identify appropriate instructional resources.• Gather/Develop Model Student Responses to
demonstrate proficient understanding of the standards.
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Instruction for All StudentsInstruction for All Students
• Core, School-wide Strategies from R. Marzano Effective Instructional Practices
• Differentiated Instruction to scaffold grade level standards for all students-special education and English Learners
• Accelerated interventions to move all students up at least one performance level during the year.
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Assessment System: Three Assessment System: Three Levels of TestingLevels of Testing
• NCLB State Assessments• District Benchmark Assessments to
verify that All students have the Opportunity To Learn and can demonstrate Proficient Performance on the standards tested on the State Assessment.
• Classroom Formative Assessments integrated in Standards-Based Lessons with Differentiated Instruction.
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Using and Reporting ResultsUsing and Reporting Results
• Results can be available within minutes on a web-based results reporting site.
• All teachers review the results of their own students and share the results within the grade level team to determine if some classroom strategies were more effective to help more students in targeted subgroups achieve proficient performance.
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More Using and Reporting More Using and Reporting ResultsResults
• Principals and instructional coaches discuss the results of benchmark tests and classroom assessments to monitor the progress of targeted students performing below proficient levels.
• Principals and grade level teams use the results of classroom formative assessments and benchmark assessments to determine intervention services.
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More Using and Reporting More Using and Reporting ResultsResults
• Grade level teams plan daily intervention time to re-teach and enrich student performance to improve their performance by at least one performance level on specific standards.
• Grade level teams evaluate the results of the intervention services based upon student performance results after re-teach/enrich.
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Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development
• Teachers and administrators share responsibility to identify needs for training to improve quality teaching.
• Instructional coaches work with teachers to use student performance results to plan differentiated instruction and suggest training to improve classroom instruction.
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LeadershipLeadership
• Leadership at all levels of the school and district organization help the staff, parents, and students keep the focus on improving student performance.
• Leaders emerge in grade level teams to encourage all members of the team to share student work and agree on model products that clearly define the rigor of proficient work.
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Does your district currently Does your district currently administer district assessments administer district assessments
tied to state standards?tied to state standards?
a. Yesb. No
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If yes, rate the implementation of If yes, rate the implementation of the benchmark assessments in the benchmark assessments in
your district:your district:
a. Outstanding implementation b. Full implementation—Most schoolsc. Partial implementation—Some schoolsd. Poor implementation—Few schools
Where is the Vail School Where is the Vail School District?District?
VAIL
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VUSD ProfileVUSD Profile
• Rapidly growing school district• 7,300 students, project 10,000
students by 2008• Moved from a K-8 to K-12 district in
2001• Added 6 schools since 1999• 60% of our teachers have less than 3
years experience with our school district
• 18% free and reduced lunch• 11% special education population• Modified year round calendar
Number of Schools
Elementary 5Middle 3High 2Alternative High 1Charter 3
Adding an elementary school in July 2006
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“I can only summarize the findings by saying we’ve been stunned… kids are given more coloring assignments than mathematics and writing assignments. I want to repeat that, because I’m not joking, nor am I exaggerating”
Mike Schmoker 2001
Victims of the Victims of the “Crayola Curriculum”“Crayola Curriculum”
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• What do we expect students to learn?
• How will we know what students have learned?
• How will we respond to students who aren’t learning?
• What will you do with students who are meet the standards?
Richard DuFour Richard DuFour
“Getting Started” “Getting Started”
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What we found in our What we found in our classrooms…classrooms…
• Teachers were teaching in isolation• Teachers were using textbooks to guide and
sequence their instruction• Teachers were covering standards not teaching for
learning• Students were not given “an opportunity to learn”• No consistency from classroom to classroom on
what to teach
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Poll: Do you have similar Poll: Do you have similar experiences to what we have experiences to what we have
found?found?a. Yesb. Noc. Other
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Standards Based InstructionStandards Based Instruction
• Essential standards for all grade levels in reading and math.
• Proficiency levels for each standard that are common across grade levels.
• Common standards-based assessments to evaluate student progress toward proficiency.
• A scope and sequence calendar for each subject and grade level to ensure alignment to the Essential Standards.
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Vail Students Performance on Vail Students Performance on AIMS State TestAIMS State Test
• Percent of Vail Students Passing AIMS Math 2005
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High School Scores IncreaseHigh School Scores Increase
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Questions/CommentsQuestions/Comments
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Does your district use technology Does your district use technology for assessment and data for assessment and data
analysis?analysis?
a. Yesb. Noc. Considering
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Do grade level teams prepare a daily program Do grade level teams prepare a daily program of re-teaching/enrichment for all students of re-teaching/enrichment for all students using data from the classroom formative using data from the classroom formative
assessments and benchmark assessments? assessments and benchmark assessments?
a. Yesb. No
Assessment & ReportingAssessment & Reporting
Exploring the Online System Used by Vail Unified School District
Galileo K-12 Online
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ATI ProfileATI Profile
• Founded in 1986 Web-based Technology, Item Response Theory (IRT), Measurement, Standards-Based Benchmark and Formative Assessment, Multi- Level Disaggregation Reporting Engines, Test Forecasting.
• 33 States: Pre-School through K-12, public, private/corporate and State Departments of Education.
The mission of Assessment Technology,
Incorporated (ATI) is to create,
distribute, and support the use of
technology to promote learning.
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Advantages of Using Technology Advantages of Using Technology for Developing Six Habits for Developing Six Habits
• ATI’ s Partnership Model creates collaboration• Galileo’ s Online Implementation Planning helps achieve
District Goals • Use of 3-Parameter IRT measurement model validates
integrity of the assessment
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To Be Highly Effective, To Be Highly Effective, Districts Need Highly Effective Districts Need Highly Effective
Technology ToolsTechnology Tools
• Formative and Benchmark Item Banks• Online Benchmark Planner • Online and Off-line Assessment • Automated Scoring with online data aggregation• Multi-level User Access • Data Import • Filtering for NCLB Variables on reports
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Questions/CommentsQuestions/Comments
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Example: Example: Technology Tools for Technology Tools for Assessment PlanningAssessment Planning
• Galileo Online Benchmark Planner
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Examples: Examples: Data for Decision-MakingData for Decision-Making
• Galileo’s Multi-Test ReportLevel 1
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Examples: Examples: Data for Decision-MakingData for Decision-Making
• Galileo’s Multi-Test ReportLevel 2 & 3
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Examples: Examples: Data for Decision-MakingData for Decision-Making
• Galileo’s Multi-Test Report Level 4 – Drill Down to Class
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Examples: Examples: Data for Decision-MakingData for Decision-Making
• Galileo’s Individual Development Profile
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Examples: Examples: Data for Decision-MakingData for Decision-Making
• NCLB Filtering
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Examples: Examples: Data for Decision-MakingData for Decision-Making
• Detailed Item Analysis ReportLevel 1
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Examples: Examples: Data for Decision-MakingData for Decision-Making
• Detailed Item Analysis ReportLevel 1 – Drill to see Question
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Examples: Examples: Data for Decision-Making Data for Decision-Making
• Detailed Item Analysis ReportLevel 2
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For More InformationFor More Information
• ATIwww.ati-online.com• For a Guided Demonstration of Galileo K-12 Online
contact an ATI Field Services Representative at: 1-877-442-5453 or [email protected]