North Carolinas Focus on North Carolina s Focus on Formative - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
North Carolinas Focus on North Carolina s Focus on Formative - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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:
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
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
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.
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
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
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)?
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
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
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
Lesson Plans
Search for FA resources
- Find sample
lesson plans, esso p a s, units, resources
- Find Formative
Assessment Strategies and Strategies and Resources
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
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Assessment
- Search for
assessment items/tasks that can be used for used for formative, benchmark, or summative summative purposes
Data Analysis & Reporting
- Multiple Data
Comparisons Comparisons
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
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