1. 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

2. Fair Assessments
Fair Assessments

3. 4 Assessments Summative Assessment Formative Assessment
Benchmark Assessment
Diagnostic Assessment

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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