Purposes of Assessment: Building Your Assessment Plan

Purposes of Assessment: Building Your Assessment

PlanCadre 8 Initial Training

10/9/12

• Helped to identify your standards of practice for your core instruction.

Where We’ve Been

• We are now going to help you to understand the purposes of assessment.

Where We’re Going

Targets1. Team members will have a clear

understanding of the four purposes of assessment

1. Screening (formative)2. Progress Monitoring (formative)3. Diagnostic (formative)4. Outcome (summative)

2. District Assessment Plan by the end of day 2

Develop an Assessment Plan

Purpose Assessment Big Idea(s) Tested

Who is Tested

Frequency Who Administers/Types of Reporting

Screening

Progress Monitoring

Diagnostic

Outcome

What assessments are you currently using in your

district?• Take 5 minutes and in your district

teams brainstorm a list of all the different assessments your district is currently using

• Save the list-we will be revisiting it periodically throughout the presentation

Assessment PlanPurpose Assessment Big Idea(s)

TestedWho is Tested

Frequency Who Administers/Types of Reporting

Screening

Progress Monitoring

Diagnostic

Outcome

Screening Targets• Build conceptual understanding

about universal screeners– To develop standards of practice for

universal screening• Determine professional development

needs for universal screening

Universal Screening: Standards of Practice

Universal Screening“The Bang for the Buck”

Universal Screening Tools

Brief & Easy

Sensitive to growth

Frequent Equivalent forms!!!

Indicator of overall health

A universal screener should over-identify students who might need something more!

Basic Skills– Finite

• Phonemic awareness

• Decoding/phonics

• Fluency

Comprehensive Skills– Not finite

• Vocabulary• Comprehension

What are “better” skills to screen?

What are some commonly used screening tools?

ReadingAIMSWEB Reading CBM, Maze

DIBELS NEXT FSF, PSF, NWF, ORF, Daze

easyCBM PSF, LSF, WRF, PRF, MC Reading Comp, Vocab

MathAIMSWEB M – Computation, M – Concepts & Applications, CBM –

Early Numeracy

easyCBM Numbers & Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Algebra

Written LanguageWriting – CBM (Total Words Written, Correct Writing Sequences, Words Spelled Correctly)

What are NOT good screening tools?

Reading

•Quick Phonics Assessment•Report Cards •OAKS

•DRA•Running Records•QRI •Fountas & Pinnell

•Reading curriculum weekly or monthly tests or fluency passages

Math

Curriculum weekly testsTeacher created math probes*

OAKS

Written LanguageWriting rubrics* OAKS

* when not administered and scored in a standardized and reliable way, or checked for consistency of multiple probes

Why give Universal Screeners?

1. To determine the health of the core • Make instructional changes to improve core instruction

2. To identify students who need additional instructional support

– Are staff using the screening data for BOTH these reasons?

1) Are staff using screening data to determine the health of the core?

School-wide (100%) grade level meetings– Fall, winter, spring (following screening)

Outcome: Increase overall achievement

– what to teach– how to teach

Strong core instruction

Weak Core Instruction

Setting Criteria: Schoolwide Meetings

Do you have criteria around how to know if your core instruction is effective?

2) Are staff using screening data to identify students who need interventions?

– How are these decisions made?– Are they unbiased?

Do you have criteria to determine which students need interventions?

Setting Criteria: Identifying Students for

Interventions What data do you use?How many students can be supported?What materials do you have?How many staff have been trained on

the interventions?

Universal Screeners• Elementary• Reading

– DIBELS Next• Math

– AIMSweb • Missing Number (K-1)• Calculations (2-5)

Middle School• Reading

– AIMSweb (Maze)

Additional assessments• Elementary

– Treasures Placement Test

– OAKS• Secondary

– OAKS

Assessments in TTSD

Using screening data to identify students for interventions

Core Program Assessment

OAKS

CBM Screening Assessment

How many students can you support?

50%

20%

30%

20%

Questions to Think About: Screeners

• Who will administer the screeners?• Who will train the screeners?• Who will prepare materials?• Who will organize materials at the school?• Where will the data go?• Who will organize the data and present it to

teaching teams?• How will fidelity of administration be

checked?

Troubleshooting: Screeners

Is the system sustainable over time?• Do staff trust and use the data?

• “it’s all about the numbers”• “it will be used to evaluate my instruction”

• How will you communicate the decisions that you have made about Universal Screeners in your district?

• How will you monitor the decisions you have made?

Screening Purpose Assessment Big Idea(s)

TestedWho is Tested

Frequency Who Administers/Types of Reporting

Screening

Progress Monitoring

Diagnostic

Outcome

Assessment PlanPurpose Assessment Big Idea(s)

TestedWho is Tested

Frequency Who Administers/Types of Reporting

Screening

Progress Monitoring

Diagnostic

Outcome

Progress Monitoring Tools

Brief & Easy

Sensitive to growth

FrequentEquivalent forms!!!

“Indicator”

What are some commonly used progress monitoring tools?

ReadingAIMSWEB Reading CBM, Maze

DIBELS NEXT FSF, PSF, NWF, ORF, Daze

easyCBM PSF, LSF, WRF, PRF, MC Reading Comp, Vocab

MathAIMSWEB M – Computation, M – Concepts & Applications, CBM –

Early Numeracy

easyCBM Numbers & Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Algebra

Written LanguageWriting – CBM (Total Words Written, Correct Writing Sequences, Words Spelled Correctly)

What are NOT good progress monitoring tools?

Reading•Phonic Screeners•Report Cards •OAKS

•DRA•Running Records

•Reading curriculum weekly or monthly tests or fluency passages

MathCurriculum weekly testsTeacher created math probes*

OAKS

Written LanguageWriting rubrics* OAKS

* when not administered and scored in a standardized and reliable way, or checked for consistency of multiple probes

Using the Right Tool

The progress monitoring tool should match the skills being taught.

Additional Progress Monitoring Tools

For more info and a review of available tools, visit

www.rti4success.org (Progress Monitoring Tools Chart)

Reading Curriculum Fluency Passages/Weekly Tests

Progress Monitoring Tools(CBM)VS.

What information does it give you?

Reading Curriculum Fluency Passages/Weekly Tests

Progress Monitoring Tools (CBM)

What information does it give you?

VS.

Reading Curriculum Fluency Passages/Weekly Tests

Progress Monitoring Tools (CBM)VS.

What information does it give you?

Assessment PlanPurpose Assessment Big Idea(s)

TestedWho is Tested

Frequency Who Administers/Types of Reporting

Screening

Progress Monitoring

Diagnostic

Outcome

Diagnostic

Answer the question…Why?

Diagnostic assessments may include:

• Quick Phonics Screener• Survey Level Assessments• Error Analysis or Running Records• Any formal or informal assessment that

answers the question:– Why is the student having a problem?

Diagnostic Assessment Questions

“Why is the student not performing at the expected level?”

“What is the student’s instructional need?”

We do not use diagnostic data…

…for all students

…to monitor progress towards a long-term goal

…to compare students to each other

Assessment PlanPurpose Assessment Big Idea(s)

TestedWho is Tested

Frequency Who Administers/Types of Reporting

Screening

Progress Monitoring

Diagnostic

Outcome

Why use outcome measures?

• To determine how well students are doing at the end of an instructional time period (lesson, unit, year)

Why use outcome measures?

• To determine if a goal was met

Examples of Outcome Measures

• OAKS• End of Unit/Program Assessments• Stanford Achievement Test• DIBELS• EasyCBM• AIMSweb

Final Questions/Comments

• Helped to develop your understanding or the purposes of assessment.

Where We’ve Been

• We are now going to develop your understanding about how to use data to evaluate and make adjustments to core instruction.

Where We’re Going

• Please complete the evaluation for this presentation

• Please write down some things you really want to remember on the “Tools and Take Away” Sheet

Evaluation