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Assessments as an Essential Component of Instruction. Board of Education Presentation May 6, 2014. How does assessment serve students?. Personalized learning environment re-teaching extensions Granite Connection Interventions Special Education ESL supports Special programs access
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Assessments as an EssentialComponent of Instruction Board of Education Presentation May 6, 2014
How does assessment serve students? • Personalized learning environment • re-teaching • extensions • Granite Connection • Interventions • Special Education • ESL supports • Special programs access • dual immersion language • accelerated learning • College, career and life readiness • applications • scholarships • grants
How does assessment serve teachers? • Differentiated classroom instruction • lesson planning • re-teaching/remediation • extensions • PLC data
How does testing serve the Granite School District Community? • Provides feedback to parents, schools, and board regarding student and school achievement. • Complies with state and federal assessment and accountability requirements.
Why so much testing? • Granite School District • improve student achievement • inform instruction • Utah • develop tests measuring Utah core • replace national norm-referenced tests • demonstrate return on investment (ROI) • United States (since 1988) • increase rigor in curriculum • improve student learning compared to international peers
How do other districts compare? (See Handout)
What changes are coming in Granite School District? (See Handout)
What assessments are selected by schools? • Common Formative Assessments • Teacher selected • end of unit/chapter • formative/summative created by teacher • Software based assessments • My Access • Unaligned
What problems have we experienced in assessment? • Technical • problems with the browser • availability of platforms (purchased and self-developed • Alignment • content accuracy • consistency with core objectives • PLC • availability of time • ability to assemble and disaggregate reports
What are we doing right now? • Benchmark questions available to teachers • Ongoing review and adjustment • ELA benchmarks being replaced • teacher committee recruited • replacing benchmarks owned by CTB McGraw-Hill • incorporating protocol • align to Utah core • accuracy ( content, grade appropriate, depth of knowledge) • technically sound (distractor analysis, on-going p-value analysis)