Race to the Top

1. Race to the Top Assessment Toolbox

2. RT3 Assessment Initiatives • Purpose • To support teachers in preparing the students for the Common Core Assessment that is to occur in spring 2015 • To provide assessment resources that reflect the rigor of the CCGPS • To balance the use of formative and summative assessments in the classroom

3. RT3 Assessment Initiatives • Development of a three-prong toolkit to support teachers and districts and to promote student learning • An assessment literacy professional learning opportunity that focuses on implementation of formative instruction • A set of benchmarks in ELA, Math, and items for grades for Science and Social Studies • An expansive bank of formative/instructional assessment items/tasks based on CCGPS in ELA and Math as a teacher resource

4. Instructional Assessment • Design • Teach • Re-Design • Teach Common Core State Standards • Re-Design • Teach • Re-Design • Teach

5. Instructional Assessment • Conducted during instruction (lesson, unit, etc.) • Identifies student strengths and weaknesses • Helps teacher determine next steps • Review • Differentiation • Continuation • Supplies information to provide students with detailed feedback • Assessment for the purpose of improving achievement • LOW stakes

6. Assessment Toolbox Components Formative Item Bank (FIB) Interim Benchmark Assessments (IBA) Assessment Literacy Professional Learning

7. Toolbox Assessment Items • Assess students’ conceptual and skill-level understanding • Tasks require students to • Apply the content they know to real world problems • Express logical reasoning by writing, showing their work and/or explaining their answer • Aligned to CCGPS assessments in both content and format

8. Formative Item Bank

9. Purpose of the Formative Item Bank The purpose of the Formative Item Bank is to provide items and tasks for teachers to use in order to assess students’ knowledge while they are learning the curriculum. • To provide an opportunity for students to show what they know and show teachers what students do not understand • To provide teachers good examples of items that assess the rigor of the common core.

10. Formative Item Bank Assessments • Developed by Pearson • Piloted in RT3 classrooms • Approved by Georgia Educators • Teachers and School Leaders • Curriculum Experts • Aligned to CCGPS • Format aligned with Common Core Assessments • Open-ended and constructed response items as well as multiple choice items • Holistic Rubrics • Anchor Papers • Student Exemplars • About 750 Items available in OAS this fall

11. Formative Item Bank • About 1700* Formative Classroom Assessment Items • Grades 3 – High School • Math and ELA • Open-ended • Scaffolded • Extended Responses • Selected Response • DOK • DOK 2; 19% • DOK 3; 41% • DOE 4; 39% *If the items are approved by curriculum experts and teachers

12. Formative Item Bank Availability • All items that pass data review will be uploaded to the Georgia OAS at Level 2. • Formative Item Bank will be ready for use by all Georgia educators Fall 2012.

13. Formative Item Types Multiple Choice (MC) Extended Response (ER) Scaffolded Item (SC)

14. Extended Response Items • Performance-based tasks • May address multiple standards, multiple domains, and/or multiple areas of the curriculum • May allow for multiple correct responses and/or varying methods of arriving at a correct answer • Scored through use of a rubric and associated student exemplars

15. Grade 3: Reading Passage (literary)

16. Grade 3: Reading Passage (Informational) and Item 1

17. Grade 3 Rubric for Item 1

18. Grade 3: Exemplar for Item 1

19. Grade 3 Sample Student Response for Item 1 Student Response Teacher Feedback Rating based upon rubric

20. Grade 3 Sample Student Response for Item 1

21. Grade 3 Sample Student Response for Item 1

22. Grade 3 Sample Student Response for Item 1

23. Grade 3 Sample Student Response for Item 1

24. Grade 3 Sample Student Response for Item 1

25. Grade 3 Sample Student Response for Item 1

26. Grade 3 Sample Student Response for Item 1

27. Grade 3 ELA ItemPerformance Data for Item 1 • Item Type: Extended Response • DOK: 3 • Number of Students in Pilot: 90 • Response Data • 4’s: 1 for 1.11% • 3’s: 6 for 6.67% • 2’s: 27 for 30% • 1’s: 53 for 58.89% • 0’s: 3 for 3.33%

28. Grade 6 Math Item

29. Grade 6Exemplar and Sample Student Response

30. Grade 6 Math Sample Student Responses

31. Grade 6 Math ItemPerformance Data • Item Type: Extended Response • DOK: 3 • Number of Students in Pilot: 87 • Response Data • 4’s: 0 for 0% • 3’s: 5 for 5.75% • 2’s: 34 for 39.08% • 1’s: 39 for 44.83% • 0’s: 9 for 10.34%

32. Scaffolded Items • Include a sequence of items or tasks • Designed to demonstrate deeper understanding • May be multi-standard and multi-domain • May guide a student to mapping out a response to a more extended task • Scored through use of a rubric and associated student exemplars

33. Math Example—Grade 3Scaffolded Item

34. Math Example—Grade 3: Performance Data • Item Type: Scaffolded • DOK: 3 • Number of Students in Pilot: 44 • Response Data • 4’s: 5 for 11.36% • 3’s: 3 for 6.82% • 2’s: 18 for 40.19% • 1’s: 15 for 34.09% • 0’s: 3 for 6.82%

35. Overall ELA Pilot Summary Data

36. Key Findings from Phase I Pilot • Preponderance of score points 1 and 2 • Incomplete responses • Responses hampered by writing skills • Overall performance shortfalls

37. Implications for Phase II Pilot • Clearer directions for students • Writing checklist to assist students in assessing their own responses while taking the assessment • Reinforce instructional recommendations to teachers • Instruction aligned with Common Core content and rigor • Classroom assessments aligned with Common Core State Assessments • Implementation of lessons and assessments that address multiple standards and domains.

38. Overall Math Pilot Summary Data

39. Interim Benchmark Assessment

40. Purpose of the Interim Benchmark Assessments To develop interim benchmark assessments and an expansive bank of items to provide information on students' preparedness for the end-of-the-year assessments

41. Interim Benchmark Assessment Items • Developed by Pearson • Piloted in RT3 classrooms • Approved by Georgia Educators • Teachers and School Leaders • Curriculum Experts • Aligned to CCGPS • Format aligned with Common Core Assessments • Extended Response and Performance Task items as well as Selected Response and Short Answer items • Holistic Rubrics • Anchor Papers • Student Exemplars

42. Interim Benchmark Assessments • 24 Interim Benchmark Assessments • Math Grades 1 – HS (Coordinate Algebra , Analytic Geometry and Analytic Algebra) • ELA Grades 1 – HS (9th Grade Literature, 10th Grade Literature, American Literature) • Mini-summative • Additional Assessment Item Bank (1000+ items) • Math Grades 1 – HS (Coordinate Algebra, Analytic Geometry, Advanced Algebra) • ELA Grades 1 – HS (9th Grade Literature, 10th Grade Literature, American Literature) • Science and Social Studies Grades 3 – HS (Biology and U.S. History)

43. Interim Benchmark Assessment Items • Items will be created in four formats • Multiple Choice • Short Answer • Extended Response • Performance Assessment • Preponderance of DOK 3 and 4 • Phase 1 Pilot to begin in winter 2013 • Items and benchmark assessments will be uploaded to the Georgia OAS at Level 3 beginning of Fall 2013

44. Interim Benchmark Assessment Availability Phase 1—Fall 2013 • Benchmark Assessments • Grades 1 - 3 ELA and Math • Grade 6 – 8 ELA • High School Coordinate Algebra, 10th Grade Literature and U.S. History • Phase I Items • Grades 4 and 5 Social Studies and Science • Grade 8 Science

45. Interim Benchmark Assessment Availability Phase 2—Fall 2014 • Benchmark Assessments • Grades 4 – 5: ELA and Math • Grades 6 – 8: Math • High School: 9th Grade Literature, Biology, 11th Grade Literature, Analytic Geometry, and Advanced Algebra • Phase 2 Items • Grade 3: Social Studies and Science • Grade 6 – 8: Social Studies • Grade 7: Science

46. Where do you Find the Items? rt1234567890 student Future webinars will assist systems’ to begin/extend use of OAS

47. Assessment Literacy Professional Learning • Provides professional learning experiences that help teachers use formative assessment practices to meet students where they are in their learning and better respond to their needs • Pilot will inform roll-out plan • On-line Modules ultimately for use by all Georgia Teachers and Leaders • Background and support materials for school and district leaders and instructional coaches to encourage team learning • Provided by partnership between the Georgia Department of Education and BattelleforKids

48. BattelleforKidsAssessment Literacy Professional Learning • Seven On-Line Modules • Foundations of Formative Instructional Practices • Leading and Coaching Formative Instruction Learning Path • Other Lessons Customized for Georgia • Suggested Blended Delivery Model • Self-Paced, On-Line Learning AND • Cohort Learning

49. Assessment Literacy Modules 1. Introduction to Formative Instructional Practices • Understand what formative instructional practices are • Become familiar with key research findings related to the effects of formative instructional practices on student achievement 2. Clear Learning Targets • Understand the benefits of learning targets • Know how to ensure learning targets are clear to the teacher • Know how to make learning targets clear to students

50. Assessment Literacy Modules 3. Collecting and Documenting Evidence of Student Learning • Know how to collect accurate formative evidence of student learning • Know how to document formative evidence of student learning 4. Analyzing Evidence and Providing Effective Feedback • Know how to use methods of assessment formatively in order to analyze evidence of student learning • Understand what makes feedback effective • Know how to provide effective feedback