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Title: Assessment and the Iowa Core Curriculum


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Assessment and the Iowa Core Curriculum
  • Iowa Association of School Boards
  • Convention
  • November 19, 2009

2
Department of EducationAssessment Advisory
Committee
  • Doug Glackin Superintendent, Woodbury-Central
    Schools
  • Cathy Welch Director, Iowa Testing Programs
  • Colleen Anderson Assessment Specialist, Dept.
    of Education
  • Amy Jurrens Board Member, IASB and
    George-Little Rock Schools
  • Tony VanderZyl Assessment Consultant, Iowa
    School Boards Foundation

3
Roles of the Board/Superintendent Leadership Team
on Assessment
  • Set clear expectations
  • Believe more is possible and communicate high
    expectations
  • Hold the system accountable to the expectations
  • Use data extensively
  • Determine what you will accept as evidence of
    progress
  • Monitor progress regularly
  • Build public will
  • Create awareness of the need
  • Create urgency around the moral purpose of
    improvement

4
Federal NCLB Legislation
  • To ensure that States are able to evaluate
    whether all students are achieving to high
    levels, States will develop a single statewide
    system of high quality assessments.
  • A States assessment system may include only
    statewide assessments or a combination of
    statewide and local assessments.

5
Federal NCLB Legislation
  • The assessments that make up the States
    assessment system may either be
    criterion-referenced or an augmented form of a
    norm-referenced test.

6
Federal NCLB Legislation
  • If the State uses only norm-referenced
    assessments at a particular grade, those
    assessments must be augmented with additional
    items as necessary to measure accurately the
    depth and breadth of the States academic content
    standards.

7
Rule Chapter 12 of Iowa CodeAssessment of
student achievement
  • Each school or school district shall include in
    its comprehensive school improvement plan
    provisions for district-wide assessment of
    student progress for all students.
  • The plan shall identify valid and reliable
    student assessments aligned with local content
    standards, which include the core content
    standards.
  • These assessments are not limited to commercially
    developed measures.

8
To supplement ITBS/ITED, at a minimum, districts
must adopt
  • An assessment of literacy in each grade K-3
  • At least one supplemental assessment of reading,
    math, and science

9
Iowa Core Curriculum (ICC)DE Assessment Advisory
Committee
  • Charge from ICC legislation
  • To work with the Department to make available to
    school districts end of course assessments and
    other assessments that align with the
    expectations included in the Iowa Core
    Curriculum. Model assessments shall be suitable
    to meet the multiple assessment requirements
    specified in federal and state law.

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Committee Recommendation
  • 1. As part of a comprehensive assessment plan,
    each Iowa district will implement assessments
    that adequately measure essential concepts and
    skills in the strands of the Iowa Core Curriculum
    (ICC). The emphasis is on creating a system,
    rather than just a collection, of local
    assessments. Districts should consider creating a
    system that is balanced with multiple formats and
    includes assessments that cover the range of
    cognitive demands found in the strands of the
    ICC.

12
Committee Recommendation
  • 2. Professional development is needed to help
    educators build capacity in appropriate use and
    selection of assessments including skills and
    strategies that will enable staff members to
    choose and/or develop appropriate assessments,
    administer assessments appropriately, analyze
    assessment results, interpret their meaning,
    respond to the results, and apply them in
    teaching and in program evaluation.

13
Committee Recommendation
  • 3. The district comprehensive assessment plan
    should provide for explicit and well-coordinated
    mechanisms to manage data collection, analysis,
    and results reporting. Outcomes should be
    communicated with stakeholders including
    students, teachers, administrators, parents,
    community members, and the Department of
    Education as appropriate.

14
Committee Recommendation
  • 4. The Department of Education is encouraged to
    research and create a sample list of valid and
    reliable assessments noting the strands of the
    ICC assessed by each. This research is intended
    to assist districts in selecting assessments for
    the comprehensive assessment plan. In addition, a
    process to help districts design a comprehensive
    assessment plan should be developed.

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Assessment and the Iowa Core Curriculum
  • Questions
  • and
  • Panel Discussion

17
Panel Question 1
  • From your vantage point, what is the role of
    assessments in the school improvement process?

18
Panel Question 2
  • What are the greatest needs in the area of
    assessment in the state of Iowa and in Iowa
    districts?

19
Panel Question 3
  • What recommendations would you make to Board/Supt
    leadership teams regarding assessment of student
    learning in their districts?

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Assessment and the Iowa Core Curriculum
  • Questions
  • from the
  • Audience
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