1. BOCES Facilitation of Regionally Created Assessments
Summer 2012

2. Why? To assist districts with the development of:
Local assessments (20% APPR)
Assessments for use in writing Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) (20% APPR)
Interim Assessments for Inquiry Teams

3. Objective Assessments Performance Assessments
Types of Assessment
Objective Assessments
Performance Assessments
Teachers will develop items which will populate a regional item bank
All items will be tagged for content, standards, level of difficulty and other regionally developed tags
Items will be marked as “Secure” or “Non-Secure”
Accessible to building administrators via eDoctrina to create district assessments using regionally created assessment map
Teachers will develop performance tasks and scoring rubrics
Exemplars will be created/collected during course of year to assist with scoring

4. Scoring of Assessments
Administration guidance and scoring materials will be developed by teachers
Scoring must be determined locally to meet the requirements of the use of the assessment (i.e. “no vested interest” rule)

5. Certification of Rigor
Districts will be provided with supporting materials to assist Superintendent with determination of “rigor”
Development methodology
Administration/Scoring Guidance
Alignment to Testing Standards “to the extent practicable”

6. Timeline Performance Assessments Objective Assessments
Special Areas to start Regents week (June 11th) and continue through end of June
Objective Assessments
All content areas/grade levels to begin after July 16th

7. Development Schedule: Objective Assessments
Day 1
Day 2
Development of regional assessment map
Training on writing quality assessment items
Practice assessment writing with feedback
Assignment of items for development
Development and tagging of assessment items
Developing of scoring guides

8. Development Schedule: Performance Assessments
Day 1
Day 2
Development of regional assessment map
Training on performance task development
Training on quality rubric development
Assignment of items for development
Development and tagging of assessment items
Development of scoring rubric

9. Needs Assessment
Needs Assessment will go out via RCC listserve today – will close Friday, April 27
Respond regarding the content area and assessment type needed
If respond with need, should be prepared to send at least one teacher
Other box to indicate other needs you have regarding assessment that we may not have captured