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North Carolinas Focus on North Carolina s Focus on Formative Assessment Sarah McManus, Director, Instructional Content North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Lets look back to 2006 There was too much emphasis on:


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North Carolina’s Focus on North Carolina s Focus on Formative Assessment

Sarah McManus, Director, Instructional Content

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

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Let’s look back to 2006

There was too much emphasis on:

 “The test” 

The test  State test results  Practice items  Alignment  Alignment  Remediation There was not enough emphasis on:

  • Student learning
  • Developing self-directed learners
  • I

i t d t ti ti

  • Increasing student motivation
  • Delivering quality professional development for teachers
  • content delivery
  • classroom assessment
  • classroom assessment
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State Board and Legislative Directions Directions

 New NC SBE Goals (September 2006) ( p )  Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability (May 2007 - January 2008)  NC SBE Framework for Change (June 2008)  NC SBE Framework for Change (June 2008)  NCDPI Response to the Framework for Change (October 2008)

  • Move to a system that includes formative,

benchmark and summative assessments (EOGs and EOCs) and EOCs)

  • Equip teachers to use formative data and

feedback to align instruction with individual student’s needs student s needs

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Standard IV: Teachers Facilitate Learning For Their Students Teachers use a variety of methods to assess what each student has learned.

 Teachers use multiple indicators, including formative and summative assessments to evaluate student progress and growth. g  Teachers provide opportunities, methods, feedback, and tools for students to assess themselves and each other.  Teachers use 21st Century assessment systems to inform y y instruction and demonstrate evidence of students’ 21st Century knowledge, skills, performance, and dispositions.

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Struggling with the Definition of F ti A t( ) Formative Assessment(s)

  • Process vs. Test?
  • PD vs. Item Bank?
  • CCSSO FAST vs. CCSSO CAS use of FA?
  • Assessment vs. Assessments?
  • In 2007, the state superintendent created agency committee

h i t t l th i d

  • n comprehensive assessment to explore the issue and

develop definitions for formative, interim/benchmark, and summative assessments

  • Committee looked at the work of CCSSO
  • Committee adopted the CCSSO FAST SCASS definition in

2008 2008

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Online Formative Assessment PD

Initial Development and Pilot: October 2008 – June 2010; 2010; Statewide Rollout: July 2010 – June 2012 Inclusion of IHEs: August 2012 - present

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Formative Assessment Model

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FA Plan Example

Grade/Subject: Dual Language/Immersion Program/Math Geometry—Grade 4 Objective: Identify, predict, and describe lines of symmetry and symmetrical plane figures. Learning Target Criteria for Success Collecting Evidence Documenting Evidence

我能认识对称线和对称的图形I can recognize a line of symmetry for a two- dimensional figures and recognize and classify line-

  • 1. 我会把图对称.I will make a

symmetrical picture by matching/adding/drawing

  • bjects, coloring, etc.

Using Smartboard, have students draw symmetrical pictures by matching/adding/drawing

  • bjects coloring etc

Class observations. Students’ formative assessment checklists. recognize and classify line- symmetric figures 2我会分别对称/不对称.I will sort the pictures into symmetrical/non-symmetrical.

  • bjects, coloring, etc.

Using Smartboard, have students sort the pictures into two groups symmetrical and non-symmetrical. Class observations. Students’ formative assessment checklists. 3我会找出对称的图. I will find the pictures that are symmetrical. 4.我会和朋友或者在电脑上玩 对称游戏 I ill l th y Using Smartboard, have students find the pictures that are symmetrical by putting the check marks. Class observations. Students’ formative assessment checklists. Cl b ti St d t ’ 对称游戏. I will play the symmetry game with a partner or on the computer. Using computer, have the students work with a partner to play the online symmetry game. Class observations. Students’ formative assessment checklists. 1 Wh t i ti d thi k t d t i ht h ? 1.What misconceptions do you think students might have? 2.What will you do to address the misconceptions to move learning forward (e.g., how will you adjust instruction, what descriptive feedback will you provide)?

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Integrating FA in State and Federal Initiatives Initiatives

  • Connections to Response to Instruction

S t M t i l f N E ti l St d d

  • Support Materials for New Essential Standards

and Common Core State Standards K 3 Lit

  • K-3 Literacy
  • Race to the Top Grants

T i i t S t th U d t di d – Training to Support the Understanding and Implementation of new standards – Connecting to the new instructional improvement Connecting to the new instructional improvement system – Early Challenge Grant Development for K-3 FA – Governor’s Teachers Network

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Information Instruction

NC’s Home Base Rolled Out in 2013

Information Instruction Assessment Student Information and Learner Profile Instructional Design, Practice & Resources Data Analysis and Reporting Educator Effectiveness:

Evaluation and Professional Development

Profile

Information Integrated Instructional Solution Effectiveness g

OpenClass

Collaboration

Schoolnet

Instructional Tools and Assessment

PowerSchool

Student Information

Truenorthlogic

Evaluation and PD

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Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan Template

  • targets/criteria

for success for success

  • collecting/docum

enting evidence enting evidence

  • teacher

reflection and instructional adjustments t d t lf

  • student self-

reflections and next steps p

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Lesson Plans Upload and Tag FA

Resources Resources

  • Create or

Create or upload a resource (e g (e.g., formative assessment plan) and tag it

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Lesson Plans

Search for FA resources

  • Find sample

lesson plans, esso p a s, units, resources

  • Find Formative

Assessment Strategies and Strategies and Resources

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Sample Home Base FA Resources p

  • http://map.mathshell.org/materials/dow

l d h ?fil id 703 nload.php?fileid=703

  • Assessing 2.G.1
  • Sample NC Common Core Math FA

Plan

  • Sample NC Common Core ELA Plan
  • High Point University presents on FA in

g y the Classroom

  • Sample GTN lesson

p

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Assessment

  • Search for

assessment items/tasks that can be used for used for formative, benchmark, or summative summative purposes

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Data Analysis & Reporting

  • Multiple Data

Comparisons Comparisons

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Fast Forward to 2015

2014-15 SBE Task Force on Summative Assessment

  • Proposes that NC have content standards that satisfy

college and career readiness

  • Proposes having a comprehensive balanced
  • Proposes having a comprehensive balanced

assessment system with three tiers – classroom/formative, benchmark, and statewide summative testing summative testing

– The Task Force references the FA definitions of Black and Wiliam and Cowie in their work but no recommendations about how to support the use in the classroom

NC ill il t th f th h t i

  • NC will pilot the use of through-course assessments in

2015-16 to provide teachers with more immediate feedback

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Questions to Consider

  • Now that formative assessment is “integrated into
  • ther initiatives,” will it get lost?
  • ther initiatives, will it get lost?
  • Without RttT funding and limited state funds, how

will FA be supported? pp

  • Is it considered old news (e.g., “been there, done

that”)?

  • With staff changes, who will be the champion for the

cause?

  • What is needed to have formal policies in place to

sustain the effort?

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Contact Information Contact Information

S h M M Ph D Sarah McManus, Ph.D. Director | Instructional Content NC Department of Public Instruction sarah.mcmanus@dpi.nc.gov [P] 919 807 3776 [P] 919.807.3776