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K-3 Formative Assessment: Assessment for Learning and Development

Supporting the Success of our Youngest Students. K-3 Formative Assessment: Assessment for Learning and Development. Wake County Schools Principals North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning March 2014. Today’s Goals & Agenda. Why K-3 Formative Assessment?

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K-3 Formative Assessment: Assessment for Learning and Development

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  1. Supporting the Success of our Youngest Students K-3 Formative Assessment:Assessment for Learning and Development Wake County Schools Principals North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning March 2014

  2. Today’s Goals & Agenda Why K-3 Formative Assessment? How is it being developed? Connections: KIA/KEA What can we do now to build readiness? Your input.

  3. NC Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grant NC Excellent Public Schools Act

  4. Alignment and Connections

  5. What is working? What could be? What is essential? How do we implement for sustainability? How do we measure this?

  6. Think Tank Report K-3 is a pivotal period to meet students’ developmental needs and close achievement gaps.

  7. Think Tank Report Researchers report that using a formative assessment process optimizes student learning.

  8. Think Tank Report NC teachers are willing and able and will need support.

  9. K-3 Formative Assessment Vision The purpose is… • to inform teaching and learning and • meet the needs of all children.

  10. Formative Assessment A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievement of intended instructional outcomes. NC Department of Public Instruction CCSSO 2006

  11. Formative Assessment Questions & Discussions Observations Embedded Tasks

  12. 5 Domains of Learning and Development Approaches to Learning Cognitive Development Emotional- Social Development Language Development & Communication Health & Physical Development

  13. Next Step in progress… Charge from the Think Tank: A Design Team should be established to craft learning progressions, performance descriptors, assessment targets, and assessment means to transform the Think Tank’s claims into an assessment that will be a usable instructional and learning resource. The ADT’s work is underway to develop learning progressions and performance tasks.

  14. K-3 Formative Assessment

  15. KEA Pilot • Selection Initial Implementation/Pilot in schools in 50% of State- Fall 2014 • Timeline Statewide Implementation- Fall 2015 • Training Summer institute

  16. From Session Law 2012-142 • 115C-83.1E. Developmental screening and kindergarten entry assessment. • Completed within 60 days of enrollment • Developmental Screening of early language, literacy & math within 30 days • Shall address the five domains of readiness • Administered at the classroom level • Aligned to ELDS and NCSCOS • Reliable, valid and appropriate • Shall be used to inform entry status, instruction, reduction in achievement gap, and the early childhood system

  17. KIA/KEA

  18. Our Proposed Timeline

  19. What can be done NOW? • Formative Assessment • 5 Domains of Learning

  20. NCDPI K-3 Assessment Wiki

  21. Future Opportunities • Focus Groups • Reviewers • Surveys • Conference Sessions • Webinars • http://tinyurl.com/PrincipalDistrict

  22. What Questions Do You Have?

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