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Title: Castle Rock Research BC Webbased British Columbia Formative Assessment System Overview


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Castle Rock Research - BC Web-basedBritish
ColumbiaFormative Assessment SystemOverview
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  • Company Background
  • Assessment Language
  • Starting Up the System
  • Schedule an Assessment
  • Assessment Navigation
  • Features and Reporting
  • Contact

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Castlerock Research - Background
  • Headquarters in Edmonton 13 years
  • Print support materials for student learning
    The Key, SNAPs
  • Customization of resources
  • Niche - provincially specific resources matched
    to the curriculum
  • Castlerock BC 6 years
  • Electronic assessment tools
  • SNAPs, KEYs and BC FA System Correlated

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Assessment Language
  • Summative Assessment
  • Assessment of Learning
  • For grading or placement
  • Formative Assessment
  • Assessment for learning
  • Identifies strengths and weaknesses
  • Assessment as learning
  • Learning takes place through the assessment
  • Self assessment

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Formative Assessment Should . . . .
  • Inform the student(s) and the teacher/parent
  • Timely Feedback . . . . Immediately is best!
  • Pinpoint misunderstandings or weaknesses
    accurately
  • Be Low stakes
  • No grading
  • Completed when student and/or teacher is ready
  • Be Flexible and easy to administer

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Formative Assessment Ought to . . . .
  • Be Curriculum Specific - BC
  • Strands/Organizers
  • Authentic
  • Developed and Reviewed by BC Teachers
  • Lead towards Summative Assessments
  • Be the most important form of Assessment
  • Inform instruction and learning

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Formative Assessment Assumptions
  • It is generally agreed that
  • Formative Assessment NEEDS to be ongoing and
    regularly practiced throughout the year
    . . . . . . Vitally
    important!
  • The process can be overwhelming and labour
    intensive
  • Teachers most valuable commodity is . . . . . .
    TIME!

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Formative Assessment Components
  • Valid Assessments/Items - Construction
  • Means valid data
  • Marking
  • Needs to be timely . . . Immediately is best!
  • Teachers already have TONS of marking
  • Data Analysis - Reporting
  • Detailed links to curriculum TIME
  • Critical and Integral to the Formative Assessment
    Process
  • Must be accurate and timely in order to be
    relevant
  • INFORMED instruction
  • Dependent on detailed Data Analysis

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BC Formative Assessments
  • Are 100 BC Curriculum Specific
  • Developed and reviewed by BC teachers
  • Use BC curriculum strands/organizers
  • Questions are problem based (have context)
  • Appropriate reading levels
  • Not used for grading or placement
  • Lead towards Summative Assessments
  • which are used for grading and final evaluations

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BC Formative Assessments
  • Assist students to self evaluate and set their
    own learning goals
  • Guide instruction and learning
  • Are Internet accessible
  • Provide immediate feedback
  • Are easy to use

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  • BC Formative Assessments Website
  • http//bcfa.castlerockresearch.com/

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Set Up New Class
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Add Students to Class
Select All if working on a Mock-up or Grade
if you have students registered.
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Add Students to Class
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Select Courses for the Class
You can select any of these courses for any grade
level.
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Name the Class
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Ready to Schedule an Assessment
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Flexible Scheduling
  • Accessible
  • On Demand
  • Teacher Controlled
  • Who gets access to what and when

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Scheduling Calendar
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Flexible Scheduling
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Science
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Mathematics
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English Language Arts
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Reviewing an Assessment
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BCFA System Features
  • Dynamic, interactive reporting
  • Flexible scheduling
  • One day to many months
  • Customize Student Groups
  • Split classes
  • Varied student groupings
  • Whole grade

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BCFA - Informs
  • Students, teachers, parents, schools and
    districts through reports which
  • give immediate feedback
  • provide detailed item analysis to accurately
    guide learning and instruction
  • pinpoint gaps, deficiencies, misunderstandings or
    weaknesses

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Four Interactive Reporting Forms
  • Class Summary
  • Class Results by Item
  • Student Results on the Total
  • Student Results by Item

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Class Summary Report
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Class Results by Item
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Item 4 - Unit 3
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Student Results by Item
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Link to BC Curriculum
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Student Results by Item
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Individual Student Report
This report is the same one that the student
receives when the assessment is completed. Many
students print and add to their portfolio.
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Real Time Monitoring
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BCFA - Assists Teachers
  • Valid Items/Assessments
  • 7500 items tagged to BC outcomes
  • 20 35 items per assessment based on
    subject/strand
  • 230 Assessments
  • Assessments designed to take 40 minutes
  • Saving time
  • All grade levels and subjects available for any
    student

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BCFA - Assists Teacher
  • Marking
  • Immediately marks the assessments
  • Full item analysis
  • Instant availability to students and teachers
  • Share results with Learning Assistance teachers
  • Correlated to BC Curriculum specific resources
    for remediation and independent student study

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Online Support
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System and Administration Costs
  • 10.00 (plus GST) per student Sep. 1 to Aug 31
  • Added Value
  • District Wide training and support is available
  • Unlimited access and use to all subjects and
    grade levels regardless of students grade level
  • Assessment revisions included
  • All data storage included
  • Basic hardware and browser PC or Mac

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BC Formative Assessment - Implementation
  • Spring 2007 - Consultation with BC educators
  • Assessments Aligned with BC Curriculum
  • Interface Functional and Friendly easy to use
  • Launched
  • Mathematics Fall 2007
  • English Language Arts Winter 2007
  • Sciences Spring 2008
  • Operation
  • Alberta 4th year
  • BC 2nd year
  • Ontario 1st year

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BCFA Administered in 2008
  • 13000 Assessments 5000 students
  • Public Schools
  • SD 23 Central Okangan SD 34 Abbotsford
  • SD 69 Qualicum SD 43 Coquitlam
  • SD 83 Shuswap SD 8 Kootenay Lake
  • SD 5 Southeast Kootenay SD 75 Mission
  • SD 42 Maple Ridge SD 36 Surrey
  • Independent Schools
  • Vancouver Chilliwack Nechako Lakes
  • Surrey Coquitlam
  • Distance Learning Environments

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System Mock-up
  • Is available for
  • Creating classes of fictional students
  • Previewing assessments
  • Take an assessment as a student
  • View reports
  • Contact Castle Rock Research at the following
    numbers -

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Contact Information
  • Dr. Jim Gaskill (Victoria)
  • Ph. (250) 382-2345
  • jgaskill_at_castlerockresearch.com
  • Mike Proch (Kelowna)
  • Ph. 1 (866) 882-8246 or (250) 868-8384
  • Fax (250) 868-9146
  • mproch_at_castlerockresearch.com
    www.castlerockresearch.com
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