TPA Task 2 Calibration

Claremont Graduate University

Sonja Lopez

What is the role of a TPA assessor?

• The role of an assessor for the TPA is to conduct a fair & equitable assessment of each teacher candidate’s performance using professional judgment in conjunction with a standardized scoring protocol.

What do you remember about:

• Rubrics?

• Qualitative Language?

• TPA Scoring Levels?• The ROE’s format: Evidence,

Interpretation of Evidence & Summary Statement?

How to Conduct a Fair & Equitable Assessment

• Collect good evidence using professional judgment

• Be conscious of ways biases may interfere

• Use standardized scoring protocol

• Base on the preponderance of evidence found in the entire TPA

Good Evidence Is Based on Good Notes & Good Notes Are…

• Factual

• Representative

• Relevant

Good Notes Help Assessors Make Good Scoring Decisions

• A structured scoring process forces assessors to look for certain kinds of evidence that directly relates to the task-specific rubric

• Requires assessors to review their notes as part of the evaluative step

• A critical part of arriving at an objective score is basing it on the evidence recorded

Good Notes Ensure Legal Defensibility

• Assessor notes become part of the permanent record for a teacher candidate, & if there is a challenge to the scoring decision, they are reviewed to evaluate the appropriateness of the score.

Tips to Good Note Taking

• Use the abbreviations list • Know where to find the evidence• Record evidence using sentence

frames• Be specific about each case• Visualize as you follow the format of

the ROE• Refer to the qualitative language list• Add it up

Step 1 - DESCRIBE

• Read & analyze the response• On the LEFT SIDE of the ROE,

record evidence in a descriptive fashion as you encounter it

• Evidence may come from one or more data sources for any one aspect, also note when evidence is missing

• As you take notes, you will make interpretive comments on the right side of the ROE

Step 2 - INTERPRET• Record interpretations on the RIGHT

SIDE of the ROE• Make interpretations of each section as you

go• You should be writing interpretations

throughout, not at the end of the response• Allows each section to be evaluated

independently• At this point you are not making score-

level judgments• Use the evaluative language provided

Step 3 – SCORE• The last part of the scoring process is the holistic

judgment of the performance• Take your time to re-think the response as a whole• This is where you will come to a final score,

thinking about each part of the evidence & all the notes you have made.

• Think in terms of the underlying attributes of the performance, NOT the surface features or your initial reactions.

• Base your answer on the evidence you have documented on the entire ROE

• Write the summary statement which includes score-level language from the holistic statement of the task-specific rubric