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Today’s Agenda

Today’s Agenda. What is value-added assessment? Annual assessments: dominant but flawed Value-added assessment: the missing piece How can value-added data drive school performance? What ECF has done in Tennessee. The Core Issue.

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Today’s Agenda

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  1. Today’s Agenda • What is value-added assessment? • Annual assessments: dominant but flawed • Value-added assessment: the missing piece • How can value-added data drive school performance? • What ECF has done in Tennessee

  2. The Core Issue • We all say we want great schools – but how do we define “great”? • Two assessment models – two different answers • Annual Assessment: TCAP • Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS

  3. The Annual Assessment: TCAP • TCAP: a measure of grade-level proficiency • Important information to have • Best-known, most widely reported • Considered the most important measure of school quality by the public

  4. The Annual Assessment: TCAP • Issues with annual assessments • Correlation with poverty – 6 year span of preparedness entering kindergarten (Kennewick) • Cut scores • Do not account for rate of growth • Below grade level • Above grade level • Annual assessments measure what the child brings to the school, not what the school brings to the child

  5. The Annual Assessment: TCAP

  6. The Annual Assessment: TCAP NAEP Mathematics, Grade 4 – Students At or Above Proficient Achievement Level Source: Tennessee State Board of Education – 2008 Master Plan

  7. The Annual Assessment: TCAP NAEP Reading, Grade 4 – Students At or Above Proficient Achievement Level Source: Tennessee State Board of Education – 2008 Master Plan

  8. The Annual Assessment: TCAP NAEP score equivalents of states’ proficiency standards for mathematics, grade 4: 2005 Source: Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales, NCES, 2007

  9. The Annual Assessment: TCAP NAEP score equivalents of states’ proficiency standards for reading, grade 4: 2005 Source: Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales, NCES, 2007

  10. The Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS • TVAAS: a measure of the rate of academic growth • Unique student IDs allow the capture and tracking of individual student data • Progress measured against each individual student’s past performance • Aggregated data shows the effectiveness of teachers and schools

  11. The Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS

  12. The Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS • Benefits of Value-Added Assessment • No correlation with poverty • Applicable to all students – special ed, ESL • Eliminates the “bubble effect” • Demonstrates the rate of growth • Identifies problems before it’s too late • Value-added assessments show what the school brings to the child

  13. The Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS

  14. The Ideal: TCAP and TVAAS Combined

  15. Applications of Value-Added Data • Challenges • Virtually unknown among the public • Can be hard to grasp • Can be hard to interpret • Goes against preconceptions • The Tennessee Project - ECF • Awareness • Access • Applications

  16. Applications of Value-Added Data

  17. Applications of Value-Added Data Value-Added Achievement Awards

  18. Applications of Value-Added Data

  19. Applications of Value-Added Data

  20. Applications of Value-Added Data • Community-level outreach • Sumner County • Hardin County • Washington County • Davidson County

  21. For More Information: Brett Pawlowski DeHavilland Associates 704.940.3201 brett@dehavillandassociates.com www.education-consumers.org

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