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Goals for March 4-5 Conference. Further community among MSP evaluators Address common issues Provide assistance in analyses Qualitative analyses Quantitative analyses Measurement of teacher content knowledge. Adding Value to the MSP Evaluations Norman Webb, Rob Meyer, and Paula White
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Goals for March 4-5 Conference Further community among MSP evaluators Address common issues Provide assistance in analyses Qualitative analyses Quantitative analyses Measurement of teacher content knowledge
Adding Value to the MSP Evaluations Norman Webb, Rob Meyer, and Paula White Wisconsin Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin-Madison 1025 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706 www.addingvalue.org
Project Goals • Increase the knowledge of MSP evaluators about design, indicators, and conditions needed to successfully measure change in student learning over time. • Develop useful tools and designs for evaluators to attribute outcomes to MSP activities. • Apply techniques for analyzing the relationship between student achievement and MSP project activities to evaluate the success of MSP projects.
Project Principles • Build on what has been learned about evaluating large-scale systemic reform • Develop a learning community among the MSP evaluators
Project Activities • Provide technical assistance to MSP evaluators regarding MSP evaluation challenges. • Two-day semiannual meetings each spring and fall. • Teleconference meetings to identify evaluation needs. • Site visits. • Prototypes for value-added data analyses. • Value-added and an alignment tools.
Web Alignment Tool http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/WAT/index.aspx A process and tool for judging the alignment between standards and assessments.
Agenda Thursday AM Introductions, Round Robin, and Issues Thursday PM Short Courses—Session I Friday AM Short Courses—Session II Friday PM Assessment of Content and Wrap-up