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Common Assessments

1 Assessment Literacy - Combining our expertise

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Student Work

Common Assessments: Purpose and Decisions

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Agenda

Common Assessment Development in pairs

5 Tuning Protocol

What do we understand about

assessment?• Experience

• Research• Training• Teaching

“Because a test is not a direct measure of a student’s degree of master of an entire

domain, any conclusion you reach about proficiency…is

based on an inference about proficiency from

a smaller sample.”

Datawise p. 37

Sampling Principal

“An item that discriminates is … more likely to be

answered correctly by students with a

higher level of proficiency”

Discrimination

Datawise p. 38

“Inconsistencies in scores across various

instances of measurement” due to different sample items or variance in student

behavior

Datawise p. 38-39

Reliability

“Increases in scores that do not

indicate a commensurate

increase in actual proficiency”

Score Inflation

Datawise p. 39

Her Majesty’s Inspector of

Schools

Looking at Student Writing

What comes up protocol

Purpose: Gain insight from previous

assessments to plan for the new

1. Presentation2. What insight can we

gain from this work?

3. Round of Response – no interruptions

4. Conversation5. Record Learnings

The Power of Protocols p. 78-80

What Comes Up?

Purpose of Common

Assessments

• Identify students who are struggling and need extension

• Identify program/curriculum changes

• Inform P.D. that is offered

Spanish 1 1a 1b 2012-2013

Writing Score distribution – Level 3

Below Standard / No Evidence

Emerging Skills Meets Standard Exceeds Standard0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Black n=39 Asian n=274 Latino n=58 Multi-ethnic n=59Native American n=3 Pacific Islander n=1 White n=514

Spanish 1, 2, 3 - 2012-2013

Student Performance by Mode

Writing

Reading

Interpersonal Speaking

Presentational Speaking

0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0

2.7

2.6

2.8

2.4

2.5

2.6

2.8

2.7

2.8

2.6

2.6

2.5

2.7

2.7

2.9

2.3

3.0

Spanish 3 Spanish 2 Spanish 1b Spanish 1a Spanish 1

Spanish 1, 1a, 1b, 2, 3 2012-2013

Well Below Standard

Emerging Performance

On Standard

Above Standard

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

11%

44%

32%

13%

8%

45%

32%

15%

7%

27%

32%

33%

10%

34%

41%

15%

11%

44%

36%

8%

Performance distribution by ethnicity

African American n=36 Asian n=381 Hispanic n=84Multi Ethnic n=105 White n=817

How do we connect common

assessments to teachers and

students’ reality?

Connecting

Quotes

Common Assessment Decisions