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