Enhancing Student Work Quality Through Science and ELA Alignment

1. Unit 3: Looking at Student WorkLearning Objectives • Become aware of key components of quality classroom assessment aligned with on CCSS-ELA Literacy in Science. • Learn to backward-design your instruction for quality student work. • Learn a protocol for looking at student work. • Use the analysis of student work to guide instruction and monitor student learning.

2. Prompt Think about your classroom assessments. • What do you believe are elements of quality classroom assessment?

3. CAESLAssessment Knowledge Framework

4. CAESLAssessment Knowledge Framework

5. CAESL Assessment Knowledge Framework

6. CAESL Assessment Knowledge Framework

7. CAESL Assessment-Instruction Cycle

8. CAESL Assessment-Instruction Cycle Backward-Design 5.b

9. Backward-Design for Quality Student Work • What will students learn? • Determine learning goals: science and English-language arts • What will students do to demonstrate their learning? • Determine student work • How will I facilitate their learning? • Determine sequence of learning experiences

10. 1 - Determine Learning Goals • Science content learning goal • Literacy strategy goal • Reading • Writing • Speaking and listening • Language

11. 2 - Determine Student Work • What will the learning look/sound like for science? • What will the learning look/sound like for ELA? • What type of written text will reveal student thinking? • What type of reading text will add/challenge student thinking? • Are speaking and listening part of the student work?

12. 8th GradeExpected Student Work • Student work will indicate student understanding of the science learning goal: there are differences between physical and chemical changes in matter. • Student work will be expressed through the ELA learning goal: Informational writing describing the differences between physical an chemical changes using evidence from the science experiment, reading, writing and discussion.

13. Student Work Example Continued • Find appropriate literacy standards for the student work: Writing, Speaking/ Listening, Reading Informational Text, Language. • Use the grade level example for writing text type. • Work with a partner to determine what other ELA standards might be appropriate for this student work. • Ask participants to share some of their ideas. • Compare with the teacher’s ideas.

14. 8th Grade Example Writing: Text type #2 a-f; #4 clear and coherent; #8 relevant information from a variety of media; #9 draw evidence from text Reading: #1, #2, # 4, #9 informational text Language: #6 Academic language Speaking /listening: None for this student work

15. 3 - Determine the Learning Sequence • Design the types and order of the learning experiences to move students’ science understanding from their prior knowledge to the concept of the lesson. • Use Lesson Sequence Template

16. CAESL Assessment Knowledge Framework

17. CAESL Assessment-Instruction Cycle

18. Scoring Guide, not Grading Rubric • Provides formative feedback for teacher to monitor and adjust instructions • Based on Expected Student Responses (ESRs) enriched by descriptors/characteristics in student work

19. Developing a Scoring Guide for Formative Assessment • Develop Expected Student Responses (ESRs) for high, medium and low level responses in each component being assessed • Read student work • Sort into H, M, L piles • Determine descriptors/characteristics of the piles (are there MH, ML?) • Revise ESRs based on the descriptors/characteristics • Re-score student work using the scoring guide

20. Scoring Guide Components

21. Scoring Guide ERSs

22. Scoring Guide ERSs Continued

23. Modified Scoring Guide

24. Modified Scoring Guide Continued

25. Guide for Instruction • Focus on the trends that describe low level responses. What is the specific instruction needed to move students up to the medium level? Consider both science content and literacy content. • Focus on the trends that describe medium level responses. What is the specific instruction needed to move students up to the high level? Consider both science content and literacy content. • Focus on the trends that describe high level responses. What is the specific instruction needed to extend student understanding. Consider both science content and literacy content.

26. LSW Protocol Review • Identify quality learning goals and assessment tools • Score student work • Identify trends • Specify instructional needs based on trend in data

27. On Your Own Think about a lesson or series of lessons you will be teaching soon. • What is your science learning goal? ELA learning goal? • Determine student work. How will it be expressed? • Review the Literacy in Science Standards to select appropriate standards. • Determine the ESRs for the science and literacy components of the scoring guide. • Plan learning sequence