Becoming Data Wise to Promote Collaborative Inquiry

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Becoming Data Wise to Promote Collaborative
Inquiry

• Office of Teaching and Learning
• Office of Accountability and Assessment

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Desired Outcomes

• Create a framework for collaborative work.
• Begin to develop common language to discuss
  assessment
• Introduce an overview of District-wide
  assessments for the 2009/10 academic year
• Use collaborative inquiry to create an action
  plan that supports the school plan based on data
  wise decision making.

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Agenda

• Welcome
• Icebreaker
• Sample Assessments
• Collaborative Inquiry Video Article
• The Consultancy Protocol
• Connecting Collaborative Work to Assessment
  Literacy
• Understanding Assessment
• A Data Wise District

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Connection to Previous PD

• Share a success you have had in implementing a
  strategy for differentiating instruction.

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Write-Think-Pair-Share

• Review the assessments listed on the Sample
  Assessment grid.
• Check off whether you think each assessment is a
  Predictive, Formative, Diagnostic or Summative
  assessment.
• Discuss your thinking

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Video Collaborative Inquiry

• Christys Dilemma
• Video
• http//www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leade
  rship/feb09/vol66/num05/toc.aspx

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Jigsaw The Collaborative Advantage

• All Groups First five paragraphs
• Ones Becoming Data Wise
• Twos Research Supports Collaboration
• Threes Creating the Right Conditions
• All Groups A Culture of Improvement

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Planning for Collaboration

• Establish group norms
• Use protocols to structure conversations
• Adopt an improvement process
• Lesson Plan for meetings

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Consultancy Protocol

• The Consultancy Protocol is a structured
  process for helping an individual or a team think
  more expansively about a particular, concrete
  dilemma.

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Consultancy Protocol in Action

• Task Cards
• Share a dilemma following the Consultancy
  Protocol

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Data Wise Planning Sequence
Reference Boudett, Kathryn., City, Elizabeth.,
Murnane, Richard., Data Wise., Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Harvard Education Press, 2008.
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A Data Wise District (Necessary Skills)

• Understand, interpret, and use assessment data
  correctly Assessment Literacy
• Use software to access data and create and
  understand graphic displays of assessment results
  SchoolNet
• Participate productively in collaborative group
  conversations and protocols
• Develop, implement, and assess action plans to
  improve instruction School Improvement Plan

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Recapping A.M. Session

• Organized for Collaborative Work
• Viewed Video
• Read Article
• Participated in Protocol

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Enhanced Assessment System Components

• All Schools
• Early warning
• Benchmarks
• End-of-Year Non-PSSA grades

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The Assessment Plan

• Acuity Assessments (developed by CTB/McGraw-Hill)
• Unified assessment plan
• Very similar operationally to this years system
  but with additional instructional resources

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Why an Enhanced Assessment System?

• Kaplan recently announced it was leaving the
  benchmark-test market.
• This was an opportunity to enhance, unify and
  refine our Assessment System.

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Why an Enhanced Assessment System?

• BUT, the results from the enhanced system must be
  integrated into SchoolNet, which is the system
  that our schools use to access student data from
• Benchmarks
• Common Assessments
• EAP

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Benchmark AssessmentStudent-friendly interface
3 8High School coming soon!
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Benchmark Assessments

• Minimal changes
• Schedule /Number of tests/ One class period
• Content
• Delivery
• On-line interface
• Reports
• Under development
• Teacher resources for differentiated instruction.
• Predictive component added to each benchmark
  test.
• New report added to SchoolNet
• Distractor Analysis Report

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For Example Distractor Report
Provides the user with reasons why a student most
likely chose an answer.
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Benchmark Testing

• Same
• Paper/Pencil Testing and Online Testing
• Five benchmark tests for students in grades 3-8
• Four benchmark tests for high school students
• Online Testing
• 7 days to complete testing
• Results in SchoolNet 24 -48 hours
• No test code to input -
• click on an icon to begin test
• Paper and Pencil Testing
• Results in SchoolNet 5 days

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EAP Educational Assistance Program(State funds
for programs like Power Hour, 9th Grade
interventions and Summer programs)

• Required Students must take 3 approved
  predictive assessments, with constructed-response
  items.
• Currently Students in EAP programs take a
  separate test (Acuity) during program time but
  also take the regular benchmark tests.
• Next Year Students are only administered the
  constructed response items during program time,
  with the multiple-choice items now part of the
  regular benchmark test.

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Early Indicator/Predictive Assessment

• New assessment to be administered in September in
  grades 3-11
• Reading/English Language Arts and math assessed
• Assessment will have only multiple- choice items

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Early Indicator/Predictive Assessment

• Provides baseline data earlier in the year
• Diagnose strengths and weaknesses at the
  beginning of the school year so that teachers can
  more precisely target instruction
• Validly predicts performance on the PSSAknow
  earlier in the year which students are likely
  (and not likely) to score proficient

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End-of-Year Assessment

• Provides results data similar to the types of
  results obtained from the PSSA, which can be used
  for summative purposes
• Used to support end of year decision making
• Provides a measure of the degree to which
  students have met grade-level expectations, i.e.,
  if the student had taken the PSSA would he or she
  have scored proficient

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End-of-Year Assessment

• New assessment to be administered in June in
  grades 1,2, 9, 10 (non-PSSA Grades)
• Reading/English Language Arts and math assessed
• TerraNova will no longer be administered in
  grades 1 and 2

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Common Assessments (Comprehensive High Schools)

• Same
• Math and English only
• Grades 9, 10 11
• Friday multiple choice / Quiz format
• Changes
• In English includes a reading passage
• Scored by vendor
• Results loaded into SchoolNet for review

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Action Plan

• Return to Sample Assessment
• When and how are you currently using
  assessments?
• Discuss what will you do differently.

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Today we

• Practiced a using a protocol to move from
  discussion to action
• Learned about the District-wide assessments for
  09/10
• Have begun to develop a common language and
  understanding for some assessments
• Used collaborative inquiry to create an action
  plan about how, when and why we use some
  assessments.

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Evaluations

• Login to Schoolnet PD Planner
• Evaluation _at_ personal profile page

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Thank you for your participation !

• Children Come First !!!