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Title: Students and Teachers Measuring Growth Astrategy to focus learning and support student success


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Students and Teachers Measuring GrowthAstrategy
to focus learning and support student success
Poway Unified School District Dr. John
Collins Ray Wilson
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Agenda
  • Implementing Change at a District Level
  • Measuring Growth
  • Elements of a Benchmark Assessment
  • Supporting Change at the Classroom Level

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Why Growth Trumps Status?
  • Growth or Valued Added Strategies
  • Increase Accountability
  • Every 10-12 weeks
  • Individualized for every student
  • Refocuses teachers and students on learning
  • Increase Motivation
  • Engages students and teachers in meaningful
  • dialog
  • Allows for real-time adjustments

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Who had a Better Year?
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Does this Change Your Mind?
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Why Growth Before Status?
  • Growth or Valued Added Measures
  • Level the Playing Field between higher and lower
    performing students and schools
  • Provide a Leading Indictor of
  • future status

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Poways Journey
4 Rebuild
3 Agree to Stop Doing
2 Culture and Policy
1 Beliefs and Attitudes
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Step 1 Change Beliefs and Attitudes
  • Develop Guiding Principles of
  • Assessment
  • Guiding Question
  • Why do we assess student
  • learning?

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Guiding Principle 1
  • The primary purpose of assessment is to
    accelerate student learning
  • Corollaries
  • Meaningful to the student
  • Aligned to what is being taught
  • Timely (immediate) feedback
  • Descriptive not evaluative
  • Co-managed by the student and
  • teacher

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Guiding Principle 2
  • Assessments must provide a comprehensive
    picture of student achievement
  • Corollaries
  • Multiple types
  • Multiple opportunities
  • Comprehensive
  • (knowledge, skills and concepts)

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Guiding Principle 3
  • Assessments must show growth over time
  • Corollaries
  • Consistent from year-to-year
  • Constant (regular intervals)
  • Scalable over multiple administrations
  • Aligned to standards
  • Understood throughout the organization

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Guiding Principle 4
  • Assessments must be valid and reliable
  • Corollaries
  • Provide replicable results
  • Aligned to standards
  • Administered appropriately
  • Unbiased

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Guiding Principle 5
  • Assessment data must be responsibly and
    efficiently collected, managed and shared
  • Corollaries
  • Clearly defined purpose
  • Responded to
  • Shared in confidence
  • Administered appropriately
  • Integrated into classroom instruction

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Step 2 Change Culture and Policy
  • The most powerful force in any organization is
    the system already in place.
  • Larry Lazotte

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Step 2 Culture and Policy
  • Formed a joint committee of teachers, the
    teachers union and administrators to
  • Study the research
  • Evaluate current conditions
  • Make recommendations

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Study Team Recommendations
  • Establish a comprehensive, coherent and
    continuous assessment system based upon research
  • Provide related professional development
  • Integrate technology
  • Provide continuous review
  • Rebuild the PUSD assessment system

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Bottom Line
  • Balance formative and summative
  • Priorities feedback to those
  • inside the classroom is just as
  • important as feedback
  • to those outside the
  • classroom

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Step 2 Culture andPolicy
  • Board policy embodies the elements of the Guiding
    Principles
  • Improved student learning is the Primary goal
  • of any assessment
  • The Board acknowledges that a balanced
  • assessment system employs two types of
  • assessment that must work in concert.
  • Board Policy

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In order to rebuild the PUSD Assessment System
Step 3 Stop What We Were Doing
  • all District mandated assessments are
    suspended for the 2003-2004 school year.

teachers will determine what works best to
support and monitor student learning
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Step 4 Rebuild
  • Create a simple understandable
  • model
  • Implement procedures for
  • annual review and continuous
  • updating of the system
  • Implement training

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Poways Assessment Model
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Characteristics of Our Growth Measure
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Elements of A Benchmark
  • Aligns with state tests/standards
  • Predicts results on state tests
  • Measures growth over months years
  • Provides discreet feedback on the
    sub-elements of the standards
  • Yields both local and national growth norms

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Our Benchmark Is Our Key
  • NWEAs Measures of Academic Progress a.k.a. MAP
  • NWEA - http//www.nwea.org/

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Poways Assessment Model
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Problems and Practical Solutions
Implementation
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Problem
  • Students achieve normal growth, but slip in AYP
    status
  • Motivational problems
  • Public Relations Problems

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Solution
  • Two growth expectations
  • Expected or normal growth
  • Optimal Growth
  • Growth needed to achieve proficiency in three
    years
  • Growth needed to maintain Proficient or
    Advanced status next year

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Expected and Optimal Growth Targets
MAP Winter Achievement Report
Percentage of class on track to meet or exceed
Expected Growth 78 Percentage on track to
meet of exceed Optimal Growth 67 Fall Mean
RIT 185 Winter Mean RIT 197
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Alignment allows us to establish and clearly
communicate expectations
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Problem
  • Engaging students, teachers and parents in
    conversations about reasonable, achievable
    learning objectives

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Solution
  • Move from numerical scores to specific learning
    objectives
  • Provide curriculum-based objectives
  • Provide tools
  • Provide processes

Goal Setting
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Teachable Objectives
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Well Designed Reports
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Share Responsibility for Learning with students
  • Individual and Class Goals

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Goals-Setting Tools
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Class Goals
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Templates, Elementary
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Templates, Middle School
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Reflection
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Individual Goal-Setting
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  • Results
  • API up 6 years
  • No Schools in PI
  • School Bond Passage
  • Motivated Students

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