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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. Develop assessment literacy knowledge and skills to

effectively differentiate instruction. Understand, explore and discuss various types of

assessments teachers use to modify and differentiate instruction to support all students.

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 Continuum of 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 Continuum of Assessment grid.

Check off whether you think each assessment is a Placement, Formative, Diagnostic or Summative assessment.

In small groups, use Part 2 of the grid to respond to each listed assignment.

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Video: Collaborative Inquiry

Christy’s DilemmaVideo

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/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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Datawise Planning Sequence

Reference: Boudett, Kathryn., City, Elizebeth., 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 Acuity

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

Displays the components of the District’s current assessments for 2008-2009

Displays the components of the District’s Enhanced Assessment System for 2009-2010

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The Assessment Plan

CTB/Acuity Assessments Unified assessment plan

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Schoolnet Update

No separate log in for Acuity Process to create teacher made materials is

shorter compared to Kaplan

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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.

BUT, the results from the enhanced system must be integrated into SchoolNet, which is the system that our schools use to access student data.

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Benchmark Testing (Acuity)- “No codes to enter.”

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Benchmark Assessments

Minimal changes– Schedule /Number of tests– Content– Delivery– On-line interface– Reports

New – Teacher resources for differentiated instruction.– Predictive component added to each benchmark test.– New report added to Schoolnet

Distractor Analysis Report

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The 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– Four benchmark tests for 2009-2010 school year– 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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Benchmark Testing

Changes– Online Testing

Will require a password– Distribution of passwords - to be determined

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EAP Educational Assistance Program

Required: Students must take 3 approved predictive assessments

Currently: Students take a separate test (Acuity)

Next Year: Students take only the constructed response portion – Predictive approved with the use of predictive items on Benchmark assessments (Acuity)

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Early Indicator/Predictive Assessment

New Assessment Given in September Provides Baseline Data All multiple choice Predictive to PSSA

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End-of-Year Assessment

Non-PSSA Grades 1,2, 9, & 10 Given in June To provide summative data similar to PSSA Used to support end of year decision making

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Common Assessments (Comprehensive High Schools)

Same– Math and English only– Grades 9, 10 & 11– Friday multiple choice / Quiz format

Changes– New text for English– Graded by vendor – Results provided every Tuesday

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Action Plan

Apply processes to existing practices Review Enhanced Assessment System Complete the Action Plan

Work together to create an action plan for your school using the Enhanced Assessment System document

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Today we:

Created a framework for collaborative work. Developed assessment literacy knowledge and skills

to effectively differentiate instruction. Gained an Understanding of, explored and

discussed various types of assessments teachers use to modify and differentiate instruction to support all students.

Used collaborative inquiry to create an action plan that supports the school plan based on “data wise” decision making.

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Fast Forward 2014

Educators use focused collaborative inquiry to reflect on instructional practice

Student work and data is analyzed using Enhanced Assessment Systems

School Improvement is achieved using the Data Wise Planning Sequence

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Evaluations

Insert website for the evaluation process

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Thank you for your participation !

Children Come First !!!