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Formative Assessments Training for Evaluators January 2013. http ://educatoreffectiveness.weebly.com. For more information, visit: EDFS: http:// eval.mybps.org/ http://educatoreffectiveness.weebly.com Email questions, comments and feedback to:
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http://educatoreffectiveness.weebly.com • For more information, visit: • EDFS: http://eval.mybps.org/ • http://educatoreffectiveness.weebly.com • Email questions, comments and feedback to: • bpsevaluation@boston.k12.ma.us • MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Evaluation Site: • http://www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/
Norms How can we, as a team of adults looking to support and help children learn, work together most effectively today? • Respect diversity of perspectives • Engage in active listening • Assume best intentions • Provide safety and confidentiality • Know that there are “no dumb questions” • Others?
Today’s Agenda • Overview • Formative Assessment: • What is it? What is it not? • What does it look like on EDFS? • Using evidence (observations and artifacts) to roll up into a rating. • Work Time
Your goals for the session • What are you hoping to get out of our time here today?
Overall Ratings Progress on Ratings on Overall Goals 4 Standards Rating Educators are responsible for providing evidence for all standards and goals I. Curriculum, Planning and Assessment II. Teaching All Students III. Family & Community Engagement IV. Professional Culture • Student Learning • Professional Practice • Exemplary • Proficient • Needs Improvement • Unsatisfactory
What is a formative assessment? • A mid-plan check-in -rating on progress towards each goal -rating on each standard • A document that considers all evidence -observations to date -evidence to date • It may be used to change a plan -If there is a significant change in practice, however, this is not mandatory. The plan may continue until the summative.
What isn’t a formative assessment? It is NOT a formal observation and a write up of that observation.
Formative Assessment & Summative Evaluation • Meetings • Upon request of educator or evaluator • Required for ratings of NI or Unsatisfactory • Prescriptions issued for standards rated less than proficient
Steps to Completing the Formative Process • Schedule dates for your Formative Assessments • Spread them out, aim for Feb. 15 • Prioritize people of concern • Inform teachers in writing • As far in advance in possible • Review evidence • Observation, artifacts • Complete in EDFS • Meet with teachers
Today’s Agenda • Overview • Formative Assessment: • What is it? What is it not? • What does it look like on EDFS? • Using evidence (observations and artifacts) to roll up into a rating. • Work Time
Formative Assessment Step 1 Step 2
Formative Assessment: Prescriptions Prescriptions for any standard in which an educator is rated NI or UNSAT.
Formative Assessment: Comments Comments are optional for both the evaluator & the educator
Today’s Agenda • Overview • Formative Assessment: • What is it? What is it not? • What does it look like on EDFS? • Using evidence (observations and artifacts) to roll up into a rating. • Work Time
Overall Ratings Progress on Ratings on Overall Goals 4 Standards Rating Educators are responsible for providing evidence for all standards and goals I. Curriculum, Planning and Assessment II. Teaching All Students III. Family & Community Engagement IV. Professional Culture • Student Learning • Professional Practice • Exemplary • Proficient • Needs Improvement • Unsatisfactory
Evidence: Observations & Artifacts • Ratings on Goals & Standards based on: • Evidence collected in observations • Evidence documented in artifacts • Artifacts can be submitted by the EducatorOR the Evaluator
Activity Examine the artifacts and observations of a BPS teacher, “Ms. Z.” • What claims might we make in the formative assessment? • Do we have enough evidence to make informed ratings for each goal and standard? • Which observations & artifacts are the most informative? The least? Why?
Activity 2: Rating Goals and Writing a Rationale Rationale: What claim can you make and what is the evidence to support it?
Activity 2: Rating Standards & Writing a Rationale Rationale: What claim can you make and what is the evidence to support it?
Formative Assessments: Tips for giving feedback Consider this: Actionable Realistic Specific Growth oriented
Formative Assessments: Tips for giving feedback • How do you personalize feedback for the various educators you work with? • Different levels of experience • Different personalities • Different strengths and needs
Uploading onto EDFS Step 1: Step 2: • Select the “Artifacts” icon • and you will get this screen:
Uploading onto EDFS • When you click “Add Artifacts,” you will get this: Description (what is it?) Rationale (why this?) Tags (which goals & standards?) Choose File & Save
Resources, Support, Questions, and Feedback • For more information, including examples of formative assessments, visit: • EDFS: http://eval.mybps.org/ • http://educatoreffectiveness.weebly.com • Email questions, comments and feedback to: • bpsevaluation@boston.k12.ma.us
http://educatoreffectiveness.weebly.com • For more information, visit: • EDFS: http://eval.mybps.org/ • http://educatoreffectiveness.weebly.com • Email questions, comments and feedback to: • bpsevaluation@boston.k12.ma.us • MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Evaluation Site: • http://www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/
Ross Wilson, Assistant Superintendent for Educator Effectiveness (rwilson@boston.k12.ma.us) Jared Joiner, Implementation Specialist (jjoiner) Emily Kalejs Qazilbash, Implementation Specialist (eqazilbash) Angela Rubenstein, Implementation Specialist (arubenstein) Kris Taylor, ImplementationSpecialist(ktaylor2) Jenna Costin, EDFS On-line System Coordinator (jcostin) Chason Ishino, Consultant (cishino) Office of Educator Effectiveness