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How Proficient am I?. Emily Bryant - emily.bryant@bcsemail.org Enka High School Candler, NC. What are Outcomes?. Outcomes are a work in progress. Make sure your outcomes require a student to demonstrate what they have learned so that you can accurately assess them. .
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How Proficient am I? Emily Bryant - emily.bryant@bcsemail.orgEnka High School Candler, NC
What are Outcomes? • Outcomes are a work in progress. • Make sure your outcomes require a student to demonstrate what they have learned so that you can accurately assess them.
Grading Student Work Daily work, homework, and quizzes Tests • Work on tests is the evidence you should use to decide if students are proficient or not. • Students previous work on homework, classwork and quizzes should contribute to whether they are proficient but the test is their final chance to show you they finally have mastered the material. • I do not keep a student from achieving proficiency because of not completing homework nor can completion of homework show evidence of proficiency. • YELLOW • Contains good solid response but not all of the characteristics of green; • explains less completely; may include minor error of execution but not of understanding • AND/OR • Contains complete response, but explanation is muddled; presents incomplete arguments; Includes diagrams that are inappropriate or unclear, or fails to provide a diagram when it would be appropriate; Indicates some understanding of mathematical ideas, but in an unclear way; • Shows clear evidence of understanding some important ideas while also making one or more fundamental, specific errors. • RED • Omits parts of question and response; has major errors; uses inappropriate strategies • And/or No Response; frivolous or irrelevant response • GREEN • Contains complete response with a clear and concise explanation; • Includes clear and simple diagram, if appropriate; • Communicates the mathematics effectively; shows understanding of mathematical ideas and processes respective to the question • Identifies all important elements of tasks • Includes examples and counterexamples when appropriate • Gives strong supporting arguments
How to Calculate a Student’s Grade using OutcomesWith Powerschool my grading has changed a little bit and we will see how this goes this year. For this first nine weeks of my year long freshman classes my students have not had many outcomes to show proficiency on and therefore I have had to adjust. In Powerschool I entered each outcome as a category and high performance as a category. I assign a 1 if they showed proficiency and a 0 if not. I had to put a 0 in for HP if they did not get the HP correct or it would show they had a 100%. With just one outcome proficient the students show a grade of 83, I did give students either 0, .5, or 1 for high performance. The .5 gave the students a (92) B, the 1 gave the students an (100) A. PROGRESS REPORTS-I really like that printing progress reports is much easier than before.
How can I make an A?What makes a task High Performance? A high performance tasks asks the students to extend their math skills to make connections between mathematics they have learned previously to the current topics or to extend the concepts to a more difficult situation. Here are a few examples of proficient tasks compared to high performance tasks. On some test I offer the either/or option where students can choose to just complete the proficiency task or the high performance for the same concept and then for other tests the students have to do all the targets and the high performance to receive credit. I also consider if the class is Honors or not. I expect my honors students to have a deeper understanding of the concept and therefore be able to explain connections between math concepts previous learned or related to another subject area. On the next two slides are the proficiency and high performance for Math 2 Outcome 1.
What makes a task High Performance?These problems come from Math 2 Examples of Proficiency tasks Examples of High Performance task
What if I am not PROFICIENT • If a student is not proficient after the test they must come before or after school to get help. Then the student can come back in the next day and complete a task similar to the task they were struggling with. • I have also offered chances on future tests for students to show their math skills that were lacking on previous outcomes. Task from the test Recovery Task
STRUGGLE with managing paperwork • Powerschool has definitely helped with an online method for tracking students progress. I can not limit the grades to be an A, B, C or F but most students do not have a D unless they are not completely proficient but got the high performance correct. • I still keep a students portfolio with each students test and recovery work. This really helps when students come to make up work and for me to easily see what they got wrong the first time. • I do allow students to recover after the grading period has ended because we may work on the concept later in the year and if they understand the task now why shouldn’t they be rewarded for that knowledge.
How proficient are you NOW? NEXT STEPS Now it’s time to reflect! Record what you have learned about Outcomes. How are you going to apply what you have learned to your class practices?
