1. Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS President
Assessments for 21st C. Schools
Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS President

2. “Inevitable Surprises” School Forecast (Psst
“Inevitable Surprises” School Forecast (Psst! Customized learning demands customized assessment)
Customized learning in high-tech & high touch schools will become the standard for teaching and learning. Distance learning models increasingly successful at Stanford U, Apex, K-12.com, Virtual High School. Promise of higher productivity, lower cost, and more customization. DoE Study meta-analysis shows that online instruction more effective than face-to-face, and that blended instruction most effective of all.
NAIS data point: See Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class & Tim Fish’s “Teaching in a 2.0 World” in Independent School, Winter, More than 1M high school students enrolled in at least 1 online course in 2008, from 70% of US high schools (ISED-L 06/23/09)
NAIS Strategy: Create an R&D team, led by technology leaders on staff and faculty.

3. Student Outcome Measurements
Newsflash: DoE offering millions of dollars for design of public school value-added assessments

4. Accountability Testing Tools for Schools (beyond SATs, and APs)
SSAT Profiles & Student Expectancy Table
Indiana University’s High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE – the school version of the CSSE, the College Survey of Student Engagement)
NWEA’s Measuring Academic Progress (MAP: Online Value-added Adaptive Testing)
College & Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA - the school version of CLA, the Collegiate Learning Assessment)

5. Sample 1: SSAT Profiles & Student Expectancy Table
Results of an Admission Office study to determine if the school is experiencing grade inflation: SSAT vs. SAT vs. GPA
Sample 1: SSAT Profiles & Student Expectancy Table

6. Sample 1: SSAT Profiles & Student Expectancy Table
Expectancy Tables inform admission decisions and demonstrate value added
Sample 1: SSAT Profiles & Student Expectancy Table

7. Sample 2: HSSE

8. Sample 2

10. Sample 3: Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) www. nwea
Sample 3: Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Sample Adaptive Test Items – Math

11. Sample 3: Adaptive Test Items - Reading

12. Sample 3: Test Items – Language Usage

13. Sample 3 Test Items - Science

14. Sample 4: CWRA Performance Assessment
90-minute real life problems
General directions and context
Need to combine information from different types of documents
A few open-ended questions, no one “right” answer—must explain rationale
Split screen
Right: Document Library
Left: Question and answer block

15. St. Gregory’s Experience

16. Demonstrations of Learning for 21st. C. Schools
Conduct a fluent conversation in a foreign language about of piece of writing in that language.
Write a cogent and persuasive opinion piece on a matter of public importance.
Declaim with passion and from memory a passage that is meaningful, of one’s own or from the culture’s literature or history.
Construct and program a robot capable of performing a difficult physical task.
Exercise leadership.

17. Demonstrations of Learning for 21st. C. Schools
Using statistics, assess if a statement by a public figure is demonstrably true.
Assess media coverage of a global event from various cultural/national perspectives.
Describe a breakthrough for a team on which you participated in which you demonstrated character and contributed to overcoming a human-created obstacle.
Demonstrate a commitment to creating a more sustainable future with means that are scalable.
Produce or perform a work of art.

18. Social Entrepreneurship: Mosquito Nets Challenge 20/20: Montessori School of Denver

19. Teaching Creativity in the Classroom
Smithsonian (Holton Arms & Landon Schools)