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Common Core assessment Selection Work Group. May 3, 2013 Oregon Department of Education. Welcome . Significance of this work Importance of impartial evaluation. Objectives. Objectives. Agenda. Expectations: Discussion. Assumptions That you’ve read the fact sheets
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Common Core assessment Selection Work Group May 3, 2013Oregon Department of Education
Welcome • Significance of this work • Importance of impartial evaluation
Expectations: Discussion • Assumptions • That you’ve read the fact sheets • That you’re ready to engage in the discussion with an open mind • Rules of Engagement • Each member of the workgroup will have an opportunity to contribute to the comparison of assessments. • Appropriate :Open mind to all options and discussion • Not Appropriate: Predetermination about which assessment is right for Oregon
Objective I Understand current assessment context and needs
Context:Work Group Task What: Reading, Writing, Mathematics state-wide assessment.
Context: Assessment Costs New assessment will cost more because the following factors, at least: • New level of assessment authenticity – higher quality assessment • Opportunity for comparability across states • Opportunity for assessment system that includes more than just summative data
Context: Assessment Costs • But we will have access to other cost-saving measures, including: • Ability to share resources with other states using same assessment system • Ability to leverage broader base for expertise • Economy of scale for alignment costs, including: • Alignments of state to state comparability • Alignment of assessment to college readiness and college placement
Context: Requirements See hand out: Requirement Table Which assessments should we evaluate?
Context:Reactions and Introductions • Please introduce yourself and say: • Name • Role and district or organization • One challenge you anticipate in this transition • One opportunity this transition presents
Objective II Determine how to weight the features in the Assessment evaluation
Weighting:Process (25 min) • Introduce features and criteria, including rationale (5 min) • Individually review features and criteria (10 min) • Discuss different weights for the features (5 min) • Each person anonymously votes on weight for each feature (5 min) • ODE calculates mean weight for each feature (during break) • Feature weighting finalized (after break)
Weighting:Introduce Features See hand out: Feature Description As a group discuss structure of feature and criteria information. 5 minutes
Weighting:Individual review See hand out: Feature Description Individually review each feature and criteria. 10 minutes
Weighting:Discussion See hand out: Feature Description Discuss how much should each feature be weighted? 5 minutes
Weighting:Voting See hand out: Feature Weight Vote Place your vote for how much should each feature be weighted? 5 minutes
Objective III Begin evaluating the Common Core assessments against the criteria
Evaluating:Process (20 min each) • Each participants individually reviews fact sheet and write notes about which assessment best meets the criteria and why (10 min) • Participants discuss their selections (5 min) • Participants will take additional notes(5min) • Schedule: • Three criteria • Break • Three criteria • Wrap up
Evaluating:Schedule • Evaluate assessments against 2 criteria (including a longer one) • Break • Evaluate assessments against4 criteria • Wrap up
Evaluating:1.1 (First one, 30 min) • Individually review Criteria 1.1 Fact Sheet • Take notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet:Feature 1. Assessment Quality(10 min) • Discuss selections and rationales (15 min) • Take additional notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet(5 min)
Evaluating:1.2 (now, 20 min) • Individually review Criteria 1.2 Fact Sheet • Take notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet:Feature 1. Assessment Quality(10 min) • Discuss selections and rationales (5 min) • Take additional notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet (5 min)
Evaluating:1.3 • Individually review Criteria 1.4 Fact Sheet • Take notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet:Feature 1. Assessment Quality(10 min) • Discuss selections and rationales (5 min) • Take additional notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet(5 min)
Break Please be back by 3:55.
Evaluating:1.4 • Individually review Criteria 1.4 Fact Sheet • Take notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet:Feature 1. Assessment Quality(10 min) • Discuss selections and rationales (5 min) • Take additional notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet(5 min)
Evaluating:2.1 • Individually review Criteria 2.1 Fact Sheet • Take notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet:Feature 2. Accommodations Available (10 min) • Discuss selections and rationales (5 min) • Take additional notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet(5 min)
Evaluating:2.2 • Individually review Criteria 2.2 Fact Sheet • Take notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet:Feature 2. Accommodations Available (10 min) • Discuss selections and rationales (5 min) • Take additional notes on Assessment Evaluation Sheet(5 min)
Wrap Up • Process • Please put all of your material in the envelope on your desk. • Seal the envelope and sign your name across the seal. • Leave the envelope on your desk. • Thank you for your hard work today – see you on May 10th.