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Race to the Top Assessment Competition

Race to the Top Assessment Competition. Public & Expert Input Meetings High School Boston, MA November 13, 2009. Goals of the Assessment Program. Support States in delivering a system of more effective and instructionally useful assessments:

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Race to the Top Assessment Competition

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  1. Race to the TopAssessment Competition Public & Expert Input Meetings High School Boston, MA November 13, 2009

  2. Goals of the Assessment Program • Support States in delivering a system of more effective and instructionally useful assessments: • More accurate information about what students know and can do: • Achievement of standards • Growth • On-track to college and career ready by the time of high school graduation • Reflects and supports good instructional practice • Includes all students, including English language learners and students with disabilities • Usable to inform: • Teaching, learning, and program improvement • Determinations of school effectiveness • Determinations of principal and teacher effectiveness for the purposes of evaluation and support • Determinations of individual student college and career readiness

  3. Other Requirements • Subjects and Grades – at a minimum: • Reading/language arts and mathematics • Grades 3-8 and high school • Summative assessments – at a minimum – but: • Not necessarily end-of-year • Not necessarily once during the year • Not necessarily one test • May replace rather than add to assessments currently in use • Be valid, reliable, and fair

  4. Goals for the Input Meetings • Paint a vision of the what the next generation of assessment systems could and should look like. • Provide concrete expert and public guidance to ED staff, in response to questions asked in the notice. • Help prepare States to develop the highest quality proposals with the greatest likelihood of impact.

  5. Agenda – High School 1:30-1:40 Welcome/Setting the Stage 1:40-3:00 Expert Presentations 3:00-3:45 Round Table Discussion 3:45-4:00 Break (public speakers queue up) 4:00-5:00 Public Speakers

  6. Housekeeping • Submitting your questions • Time keeping • Cell phones on vibrate please • Today’s session will be transcribed and posted to www.ed.gov, together with the presentations • Additional written input may be submitted to racetothetop.assessmentinput@ed.gov

  7. On the Panel Invited Experts • Gene Bottoms, Senior Vice PresidentSouthern Regional Education Board • Linda Darling-Hammond, Professor of EducationStanford University, School of Education • Shelley Loving-Ryder, Assistant SuperintendentVirginia Department of Education • Lauress Wise, Principal ScientistHuman Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) From the U.S. Department of Education • Joanne Weiss, Director of Race to the Top, Office of the Secretary • Ann Whalen, Special Assistant to the Secretary • Judy Wurtzel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development • Amy Laitenen, Office of the Undersecretary (Postsecondary)

  8. Key Questions • How would you demonstrate that high school students are on track to college and career readiness, and at what points throughout high school would you recommend measuring this? • Discuss your recommendations around the use of end-of-course assessments versus comprehensive assessments of college and career readiness.

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