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Measuring Candidate Impact on P-12 Student Learning

Measuring Candidate Impact on P-12 Student Learning. Teacher Work Sample Evidence. What is a Teacher Work Sample?. Provides documentation of a teacher candidate’s ability to plan, deliver, and assess a complete standards-based unit of instruction.

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Measuring Candidate Impact on P-12 Student Learning

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  1. Measuring Candidate Impact on P-12 Student Learning Teacher Work Sample Evidence

  2. What is a Teacher Work Sample? • Provides documentation of a teacher candidate’s ability to plan, deliver, and assess a complete standards-based unit of instruction. • Provides instruction embedded evidence of the impact of teaching on student learning.

  3. Seven TWS Processes • Contextual Factors – how community, classroom, and student factors inform planning • Learning Goals – aligned to state content standards • Assessment Plan – variety of pre, formative, post assessments appropriate for each learning goal • Design for Instruction – variety of instructional methods aligned with goals and informed by contextual factors • Instructional Decision-Making – decisions made based on student responses and/or assessment outcomes • Analysis of Student Learning – demonstrating pre/post student (whole, subgroup, individual) gains as they relate to each learning goal • Reflection & Self Evaluation – reflecting on student progress or lack thereof and ways teacher candidate can develop to improve future student performance

  4. Validity & Reliability Evidence • Processes parallel targeted INTASC and Kentucky Teacher Standards • Experts affirm that processes describe behaviors/skills that are frequent, critical, and necessary for good teaching. • Multi-institutional studies (Denner et al., 2004) show that TWS can be scored reliably • Two WKU studies show between 81-90% inter-rater agreement. An additional showed between 67%-95% agreement (faculty tended to score higher) but some training discrepancies were present.

  5. Impact on Student LearningPreliminary Evidence Student Teacher N = 22, P-12 Student N = 464 Significant Student Gain (Controlling for Student Teacher Effects)

  6. Next Steps • Conducting larger, more precise TWS studies to explore, such as… • The extent to which all TWS scores can be accessed and matched to goals • The quality of the assessments (depth of knowledge, alignment to standards, adaptations to meet diverse needs of students) • The potential for differential impact based on student-teacher program and P-12 student characteristics • Working with state to connect TWS, as well as other program assessments, success to impact on P-12 student learning during teaching internship

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