Using Acuity to Guide Instruction

1. Using Acuity to Guide Instruction Sandra Foster Office of Assessment and Accountability Leatha Williams Office of School Improvement

2. Using Acuity to Target Skills/Objectives • Teacher-Created or Common Assessments • Benchmark Assessments • Instructional Probes • Data Reports on Assessments • Instructional Resources

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7. 532 items available for RLA 4.1.08 Students will interpret and extend the ideas in literary and informational texts to summarize, determine story elements, skim and scan, determine cause and effect, compare and contrast, visualize, paraphrase, infer, sequence, determine fact and opinion, draw conclusions, analyze characterize and provide main idea

8. Common Core Language RI.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

9. WVDE State Authored Benchmark Assessments • WVDE Benchmarks • WV CSOs form the basis of the assessments • Aligned to 21st century CSOs in content and DOK • Similar in style and blueprint to WESTEST 2

10. Using Acuity Data to Improve Student Performance There is a correlation between STUDENT PERFORMANCE on Benchmark 3 and WESTEST 2. Data analysis: • Analyze benchmark data to identify areas of individual student weakness on specific learning targets • Differentiate instruction • Assign Instructional Resources at the appropriate developmental level as a re-teach tool for students • Other instructional resources

12. WVDE Benchmark 1 for WESTEST 2 • check Select Date Range: Jan 4, 2011

16. Instructional Probes • Short pre-made assessments based on spiraling CSOs • CSO specific; based on deconstruction of CSO skills • Available Probes • Math grades 3-8 & Algebra I • RLA grades 3-8 • Utilized by teachers & interventionists

17. Instructional Probe Structure Instructional Probe for Math (Skill: Addition) Probe Contents: 3 questions from MA.5.1.7 3 questions from MA.4.1.7 3 questions from MA.3.1.8 3 Probes for each objective/skill (Form A, B, C) Example: WVDE M 5 1 7 Instructional Probe – Addition, Form A WVDE M 5 1 7 Instructional Probe – Addition, Form B WVDE M 5 1 7 Instructional Probe – Addition, Form C

19. WVDE M M (for math) RLA (for reading/language arts) Select Date Range: Jan 4, 2011

20. 4th Grade Math 57 Instructional Probes

21. From this screen • View or print PDF • Assign to students • View Test Map

22. TEST MAP

23. Reports in Acuity for Assessments • Group Reports: • Summary Report • Classroom Matrix Report • Roster Report • Item Analysis Report • View Distractor Analysis Individual Student Reports: • Student Summary Report • Student Item Analysis Report • View Distractor Analysis

24. Item Analysis Report

30. Using Acuity Instructional Resources • Mini-lessons which include three sections: • Instruction • Guided practice • Mini-quiz

31. 3rd and 4th Grade Math IRs 94

32. 5th and 6th Grade Math IRs 92

33. 3rd and 4th Grade RLA IRs 56

34. 5th and 6th Grade RLA IRs 42

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41. Assigning Instructional Resources from Reports