Media-X Systems Inc.

1. Media-X Systems Inc. Assessing Dispositions

2. mVal:Professional Assessing Dispositions

3. Parents, teachers, educators, and researchers agree that effective teaching happens when teachers: • thoroughly know their subjects • have significant teaching skills • possess dispositions that foster growth and learning in students

4. Leave out any one of these and learning which is essential to a productive and meaningful life will not occur.

5. One of the most pressing current problems in the preparation of future educators is defining and measuring the dispositions associated with educator effectiveness That’s why we’re all here !!

6. mVal:Professional is an appraisal system used by 1,000’s of school administrators to assess staff using rubrics and ‘look-fors’ (Performance Indicators), which standardize evaluations. • Knowing what to look for empowers evaluators to make more accurate assessments.

7. Based on the research of Arthur W. Combs and the perceptual instrument described by M. Mark Wasicsko, PhD* in 2002, mVal:Professional can be used to simplify the assessment of teacher (or teacher candidate) dispositions. * College of Education, Eastern Kentucky University

8. All of which are managed in mVal:Professional - the book would be an ideal resource for mVal:Professional - mVal:Professional would be an ideal companion for the book • The ‘Handbook on Teacher Evaluation’ provides: • Domains • Standards • Rubrics • Performance Indicators (Look-fors) • Portfolio guidelines • Improvement Plans

9. mVal:Professional is used to: • Define sets of Standards, Rubrics and Look-fors (Performance indicators) • Create appraisals based on a set of standards • Record observations • Assess based on the observations • Report • Allow students to reflect, provide evidence, make self-assessments and maintain portfolios

10. From the outset, mVal:Professional was designed to record data using a Palm PDA, although you can record the observations on paper or while having access to the Internet.

11. Select a Domain Select a Disposition Example based on the research of M. Mark Wasicsko, PhD

12. Evaluating Dispositions and rating lookfors is organized and simple Many prefer to rate the lookfors first, and later decide the evaluation of the Disposition

13. The advantages of using a handheld are: • Portability • Anywhere-anytime access to data • Inconspicuous recording of observations • SIMPLICITY • Single button transfer of data between Palm and web

14. The combination of web and Palm handheld provides: • A single ‘Desktop’ application that is always current (updates are instantaneous for all users) • Automated Palm updates via the web • Access to evaluations and reports from any web-connected computing device (multi-platform) • The ability for evaluators to share and collaborate • A vehicle for students to maintain portfolios, growth plans, reflections and peer-assessments • Dialogues between students and professors/mentors • Faculty, department, campus, state or even nation-wide access to data

15. Setting yourself up on the web:

16. First, you create your set of assessment tools

18. You can customize all evaluation criteria

19. What follows is an example of using Dr. Comb’s research

20. The perceptual factor for perceptions of subject matter ( I have not added any performance indicators)

21. The performance indicators and perceptual factor for perceptions of people

22. The performance indicators and perceptual factor for perceptions of self

23. An assessment set for evaluating weekly reflections

24. What the student/teacher sees – they then create their anecdote

25. The ‘Reflection’ assignment The respose that is evaluated What the evaluator sees

26. One of several reports

27. Student teachers can log-on and do a self-assessment, Build Improvement and Learning Plans, and maintain Portfolios:

28. Items in a portfolio can be linked to any standard (competency):

29. Learning Plans can be customized for the school/district/campus:

30. Simple checklists can be created Customized Reporting forms can be created Here the evaluator has set the system so the student teacher cannot view the appraisal:

31. Doing an appraisal on-line:

32. Working with Look-fors:

33. Notes made by the student Evaluation made by the student The appraiser can view the self-assessment

34. Numerous reports are available

35. Building your own Rubrics is extremely easy - you simply type them in, or you can even ‘copy- paste’ from a Word or other document.

36. You can create as many checklists as you wish

37. You can customize all screen labels and scoring values

38. Faculty standardized forms can be automatically filled in with pre-defined comments with just a click. Notice that the teacher’s name is automatically inserted to make the note personal.

39. Notice that the teacher’s name is automatically inserted to make the note personal. Thus all the data collected is organized to fill in the Faculty’s reporting form.

40. Using a Palm, you can collect the data for the evaluation conveniently and efficiently.

41. Staff information with you always You can make notes that you won’t misplace Evaluations are quick and simple You can create spontaneous, informal evaluations about anything

42. Evaluations are quick and simple Data from the Palm is moved to the database with a ‘hotsync’ or wirelessly.

43. Select the evaluation

44. Select the area to evaluate

45. Select the competency to evaluate

46. Evaluate …. with just a ‘tap’ on the screen

47. Evaluate …. with just a ‘tap’ on the screen

48. You can indicate evidence And see what to ‘Look For’ in making your decision.

49. You can make notes on any part of the appraisal You can even enter comments automatically

50. Mval:Professional: As soon as appraisals are made with a Palm they can be transferred to the web-based database either with a ‘Hotsync’ or wirelessly : • Over a wireless network with a Tungsten ‘C’ • From anywhere in the field with a Tungsten ‘W’