Standards Aligned System Integration Trainer Professional Development Integrating Standards, Assessment, Curriculum Framework, Instruction, Materials & Resources and Interventions Pennsylvania Department of Education Edward G. Rendell, Governor Thomas E. Gluck, Acting Secretary of Education

Fair Assessments Fair Assessments

4 Assessments Summative Assessment Formative Assessment Benchmark Assessment Diagnostic Assessment

SAS: Fair Assessments Assess progress at the end of a defined period of instruction Classroom-based formal and informal assessment tools to shape teaching and learning Assessments administered prior to instruction, to determine each student's strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills Designed to assess and provide feedback about how the student is progressing towards demonstrating proficiency on grade level standards The SAS portal includes tools for these four types of assessment. We will review these on the next several slides. Teachers should utilize all four types of assessments in monitoring student progress. Seek to make an overall judgment of progress at the end of a defined period of instruction… the end of a school level, grade, or course Are administered at certain grades for purposes of state or local accountability  Considered high-stakes assessments Results are often used in conjunction with No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Formative assessments reveal information that when used diagnostically will alter instructional practices and have a direct impact on student learning and achievement… Black and William (1998) Assessments are formative when the information is used to…adapt instructional practices, meet individual student needs, provide individual students corrective feedback, "reach" set goals and targets -Designed to produce clear data on the student's accomplishments at key points in his or her academic career Benchmark assessments answer the question what?  What standards have the students achieved?  What standards have not yet been met?  What standards are not being addressed?  Benchmark assessments are an efficient measure for predicting success on state achievement tests, as well as for screening students for possible placement in remediation programs; Benchmark assessments provide accountability at the classroom level

Summative Assessment Measures overall achievement typically at the end of the year, a course, or a meaningful unit of study Used for statistical estimates of academic growth or projection of performance on future assessments Often used for grading, accountability, and/or research/evaluation Summative assessments are typically used to measure achievement at the end of the year, course or other defined period of instruction. Often times they provide data on student achievement of academic standards. In addition, these assessments provide the data necessary to estimate the academic growth of cohorts of students from year to year and to calculate the probability of success on future assessments via value-added assessment techniques. These data are disaggregated by student groups so that educators can identify any achievement gaps. Typically they are used for grading and other accountability purposes such as AYP. Analysis of these data are also an integral part of the School and District Improvement Planning process. 5

Examples of Summative Assessments PSSA, PSSA-M, PASA PVAAS* W-APT, WIDA Access Placement Test ACCESS for ELLs TerraNova Stanford 10 End of Unit Final Exams-Keystones * analysis of PSSA data Utilizing Random Report Technique, have participants identify examples of summative assessments. Participants need to count off from 1-5. Participants discuss at their table different types of summative assessments. Presenter randomly selects a table and participant from that table (ie, participant #4). Select another table via same process. 6

Examples of Formative Assessment Random reporter Observation Exit tickets Progress Monitoring Questioning techniques Active engagement check-ins response cards traffic lights thumbs-up Think-pair-share These are just a few examples of the types of strategies that may be used to get formative data during instruction. Teacher Matters resource is expected to be available under “Resource” tab on SAS hub. Misconception analysis : Teacher is analyzing gaps in student knowledge and providing corrective feedback. 7

Benchmark Assessments Measures achievement of important grade level content periodically during the year May predict how a group of students would perform if the PSSA were given on that same day Can be used to measure achievement of content taught in the past 6-8 weeks Designed to provide feedback to both the teacher and the student about how the student is progressing towards demonstrating proficiency on grade level standards. Well-designed benchmark assessments and standards-based assessments: measure the degree to which students have mastered a given concept measure concepts, skills, and/or applications are reported by referencing the standards, not other students' performance serve as a test to which teachers want to teach measure performance regularly, not only at a single moment in time 8

Examples of Benchmark Assessment 4Sight DIBELS AIMSweb Riverside Assess2Know Examples of Benchmark include… DIBELS = measures literacy skills AIMSweb = early math and literacy assessment 9

Diagnostic Assessment Measures and identifies specific student strengths, weaknesses, skills and knowledge before and during instruction Used to plan instruction or intervention so that individual student needs are addressed PA will use a Computer-Adaptive testing approach The purpose of diagnostic assessment is to ascertain, prior to and during instruction, each student’s strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills. With this data teachers can target instruction and interventions meet each pupil’s unique needs. Unlike the other types of assessment diagnostic assessments include items that span a wide range of grade level content. PDE is in the process of developing an on-line Diagnostic Assessment tool that will employ a Computer Adaptive Testing approach. This technology adjusts the assessment items based on the responses of the student. For example, if the child answers items correctly, the difficulty of the items will increase. As items are answered incorrectly, the difficulty decreases. This adaptation minimizes frustration and provides the best situation for accuracy in determining a student’s level of achievement in each of the assessed areas. 10

Examples of Diagnostic Assessments DRA --the Developmental Reading Assessment Running Records GRADE G-MADE Examples of Diagnostic – DRA Directed Reading Activity - Running Record GRADE G-Made What else are participants using? Use Random Reporter to elicit feedback from the group… 11