Glastonbury Public Schools brownc@glastonburyus.org

1. Creating Model K-12 AssessmentsChristine Brown Assistant Superintendent, Glastonbury (CT) Public Schools Glastonbury Public Schools brownc@glastonburyus.org

2. Assessments Built on K-12 Curriculum • Teacher Designed or Group Designed • Standards and Benchmark Based • Book Related • Assessed on a Regular Basis • Assessing students and assessing the program

3. Assessment Types • Formative • Summative • Normative

4. Assessment Components • Assessing all standards and benchmarks • Based on mapped curriculum • Related to MAP Assessments and IB assessments • Assessing student performance across a broad range of skills and knowledge • Needs to be an authentic performance or problem based performance

5. Assessment Components Cont. • Graded with a common rubric • Regularly scheduled mini assessments • Common midterms and finals • Electronic portfolio • Regular student feedback

6. Relationship to Improved Performance in English Language • Relationship between all content standards and English language arts • Focus on speaking, listening and literacy • Relationships in languages being learned and students’ language backgrounds

7. Longitudinal Data • Common testing • Portfolio Assessments • Need to publish results • Students and parents need to see progress from grade to grade

8. Constructing Your Own Assessments • Develop alone … • Build a team • Formative and Summative • What content? • How related to broader curriculum?

9. Let’s try • Pick a theme • Choose the domains to be assessed • Choose the venues for delivery • Write the rubric • Create the parts • Backward design for the formative and summative assessments

10. Unit Review • Use of a design rubric to measure unit efficacy • Use of critical friends or colleagues within and across disciplines to guide development • Reflect and revise