The Next Generation of Standards, Assessment and Accountability:

General Overview and the Online Writing Instructional System

July 10th, 2009

Accountability and Curriculum Revision EffortAgenda for Today

Overview of the Plan to Revise Standards, Assessment and Accountability

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A New Vision for Writing Instruction in North Carolina

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Demonstration and Exploration of the Writing Instructional System

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Writing Instruction in a 1:to:1 Environment10

NCDPI’s Response to Framework For Change

SBE’s Framework For Change

Blue Ribbon Commission Report

ACRE Accountability and Curriculum Revision Effort

A Simple Vision

Essential Standards

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EOC-EOG

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AssessmentACRE

Built on what is most important for students to learn in the 21st century

Summative (Statewide)

Essential Standards

To Inform Instruction…

o Centralized Benchmarking Tool

o Systematic Formative Assessment PD Modules

To Evaluate Knowledge…

o Transparent

o Appropriately UsedNon-Evaluative District Controlled

• Diagnostic Tools and

Professional Development for Student

Learning

Benchmark (Classroom, School,

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Formative Assessment(Classroom)

Note: This does not mean more sequestered testing like the EOCs or EOGs.

Essential Standards

Benchmark (Classroom, School,

District)

Formative Assessment(Classroom)

Summative (Statewide)

+ GraduationRate

+Future-ReadyCore

+ Readiness

Growth Achievement (EOCs and EOGs)K-12

AccountabilityACRE

Timeline 08-13 2008 - 2009 2009 - 2010 2010 - 2011 2011 - 2012 2012 - 2013

July July July July

Innovative Assessment Team Report (July 09)

Criteria for choosing Constructed Resp. and Portfolio Report (Sept 09)

New Accountability Committee Report (September 09)

Formative PD Modules 1-5 (August – Dec 2009)

Modules 6-13 (Jun 2010)

Online PD Community Launch (June 2010)

Case Studies on Administering 21st Century, Computer-Based Assessments (January 2011)

P1 = Phase I (Math, Science, Eng 10, Information and Tech Skills, Occupational) P2 = Phase I (ELA, Social Studies, Other Subject Areas)

D = Elementary Diagnostic Assessment

P1 Essential Standards

P1 Item Development

P1 Field Test

Essential Stnds. and Assessments Operational

Benchmarking Tool for First Set (P1) of Essential Standards Operational July 2011

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P2 Essential Standards

P2Item Development

P2Field Test

Essential Stnds. and Assessments Operational

Benchmarking Tool for Second Set (P2) of Essential Standards Operational July 2012

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Elementary Diagnostic Assessment Piloted Results in June 2010

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Excellence in Writing Instruction

“21st-century skills, then, are not new, just newly important.”

Excellence in Writing Instruction

~ Elena SilvaMeasuring Skills for 21st-CenturyLearning

Good writing reinforces/requires… Critical Thinking

Creativity and InnovationSelf-Direction

Oral CommunicationInformation Technology Application

Premises:

Writing is Important.

From English 10 Draft Essential Standards…

EII.C.1 Create increasingly complex oral and written responses for a

variety of audiences, purposes, and contexts.

Writing is Hard.

Premises:

Writing is Important.

There is alarming historical data about writing achievement in our state:

In 2007, the average scale score for eighth-grade students in North Carolina was 153.

This was lower than their average score in 2002 (157) and was not significantly different from their average score in 1998 (150).¹

There is alarming current data about writing achievement in our state:

Writing is Hard.

Premises:

Writing is Important.

North Carolina must Improve.

Change the current approach to writing assessment. To elevate the importance of writing throughout the curriculum, the current 4th, 7th, and 10th grade writing assessments are to be replaced with a K-12 writing assessment system that includes authentic and on demand writing assignments, appropriate to each grade level and backmapped from the graduation project. The DPI is to provide rubrics, aligned with the writing rubric used for the graduation project, for LEAs to use in assessing these K-12 writing assignments…….

From the Framework For Change

Your local newspaper is sponsoring a contest titled “Making a Difference.” Students have been encouraged to write an essay on how they can “make a difference” by improving their school or local community. The winning essay will be published in the education section of the newspaper.

Write an essay for the newspaper editor in which you propose a solution to make your school or community a better place.

On-Demand Prompt

Content-Specific Writing Assignments

All teachers in a building must teach and reinforce excellence in writing and take ownership for student writing outcomes.

Continual Practice and Feedback

Students must write and receive feedback on their writing throughout the year to improve significantly.

Writing instruction and practice is more meaningful and likely to develop knowledge and skills in students if they are engaged in authentic writing tasks about subjects that matter to them.

Developing Passions and Interest

Developing a common standard for proficiency in writing throughout the school building.

Rubrics

In the future, the writing system will be a K-12 writing system as

opposed to 4,7,10.

PDWriting Professional Development

Trends and Lessons Learned

Most important positive trend in the feedback:

+Many in the field support a shift from a single, on-demand assessment to a year-long instruction and assessment system.

Most important emerging critical trend in the feedback:

∆Communication about purpose, logistics, and implementation can be improved.

Trends and Lessons Learned

Writing Instruction System DemoRandy Craven

Questions?

Reflection: How does a one-to-one environment allow you to support a cross-content approach to writing?