K-3 Formative AssessmentSummer Leadership

Conference

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning

June 2014

Welcome & Introductions

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Audience Pulse

Today’s Goals & Agenda

Part One• John Pruette, Director of the Office of Early

Learning• Vision of K-3 Formative Assessment Process

Part Two• Introduction to support tools for formative

assessment process

Part Three • NC KEA Pilot information

Questions?

John Pruette

Vision for the K-3 Formative Assessment Process

KEAK-3

Formative Assessment

NC Vision

ChildSocial/Emotional

Development

Approaches to Learning

Health and Physical

Development

Cognitive Development

Language Development

and Communication

• Formative Assessment– A process used by teachers and students

during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievement of intended instructional outcomes.

– CCSSO, 2006

Formative Assessment

Questions & Discussions Observations Embedded Tasks

What is essential?

How do we measure

this?

How do we implement for sustainability?

THINK TANK

Outlines a vision for K-3 formative assessment and establishes claims about the knowledge, abilities, and approaches to learning that are most essential for children to develop in the early grades.

ASSESSMENT DESIGN TEAM

Translates the vision into an assessment process, through designing, piloting, feedback, and multiple iterations in schools across North Carolina.

IMPLEMENTATION DESIGN TEAM

Plans and supports the scaling up for the K-3 formative assessment process in a manner that is sustainable.

Claim Construct Construct Progression

Performance Descriptor

Situations and Tasks

CCSS and NC Essential Standards

Assessment Design

Claim Construct Construct Progression

Performance

Descriptor

Situations and Tasks

CCSS and NC Essential Standards

Assessment Process

K-3 Formative Assessment Process Proposed Timeline

Task TimelineKEA Design & Development Spring 2013 – Summer 2014

KEA in 50% of LEAs Fall 2014

KEA in 100% of LEAs Fall 2015

K-3 Assessment Design & Development Summer 2014 – Winter 2014

K-3 Assessment Implementation Begins Fall 2015

Take into consideration the “whole child” (5 Domains of development and learning)

Approaches to Learning

Cognitive Development

Language Development

& Communication

Health &Physical

Development

Emotional-Social

Development

NC KEA ConstructsDomain Construct

Approaches to Learning Engagement

Cognitive Object Counting

Emotional-Social Emotional Literacy

Language & Communication

Letter Naming

Book & Print Awareness

Following Directions

Health & Physical Fine Motor

Formative Assessment Analogy

““The Basic Idea

Kids learn. They start out by being able to do little, and over time they know and can do more, lots more. Their thinking becomes more and more sophisticated as they respond to instruction and experience in and outside of the school setting.

– (Mosher, 2011, p.2)

Construct Progression

Understandings

• Identifies the major

concepts within a

particular construct

Skills

• Identifies competencies, ranging from

simple to complex

Performance Descriptors• Paints a picture of

performance, providing examples

Describes the understandings and skills regarding a particular construct, identifying how students’ learning of important concepts and skills in a domain develops over a period of time.

Formative Assessment Means

Multiple means by which a teacher and student elicit evidence of learning

Formative Assessment Means

Situations: General

• MOST of the

KEA constructs

Situations: Specific

• SOME of the

KEA constructs

Tasks

• TWO of the

KEA constructs

NC KEA

NC KEA Pilot

Selection

Training

NC KEA Pilot DistrictsRegion 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4

BeaufortBertie

CurrituckDare

MartinPasquotank

PittTyrrell

 

CarteretJones

New HanoverPamlicoPender

FranklinNash/Rocky Mount

VanceWake

WarrenWeldon City

BladenColumbus

HarnettHokeMoore

Richmond

Region 5 Region 6 Region 7 Region 8Alamance-Burlington

AsheboroGuilford

LexingtonOrangePerson

RockinghamStokes

Thomasville 

AnsonCharlotte-Mecklenburg

StanlyUnion

 

AlexanderCaldwell

Iredell-Statesville Mount Airy City

Newton Conover City 

CherokeeClay

HaywoodJackson

McDowellMitchellSwain

Transylvania 

Providing Support – KEA Pilot

NC KEA Pilot

Purpose:

• To gain an understanding of the classroom application of the NC KEA

• To inform the continued development of the NC KEA

• To inform the revision of training and support

NC KEA Pilot

• NC KEA begins on the first student day.

• NC KEA process will be implemented during the first 60 days.

• Teachers have the option to continue using the KEA process after 60 days.

Opportunities for Learning

• Webinars

• LiveBinders – 5 Domains of Learning and

Development

– Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Opportunities for Input

• KEA Pilot

• Focus Groups

• Reviewers

• Conference Sessions

NCDPI K-3 Assessment Wiki

Questions?