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Valid and Reliable Assessment of Uncommon Learning

Experiences Kim Carter

kcarter@qedfoundation.org

•  Small learning environments

•  Hands-on learning

•  Real world, relevant learning experiences

Extended Learning Opportunities

Extended Learning Opportunities

•  Safe, structured environments for students outside of the regular school day

•  Offer a range of programming

•  Utilize new and innovative approaches to learning

Group ELO - English Language Arts

•  Poetry Slam Focus

•  English Language Arts , Poetry HQT

•  The Bridge Café, Manchester Community Partner

•  Research Poetry Slam and genre • Write poetry appropriate for presentation •  Public present for audience of peers, staff,

superintendent at Bridge Café Poetry Slam

Goals

•  Students earned English credit, discovered passion for expressive language arts and continue to study poetry.

Result

Glass Artist

Geometry

Origami

This E.L.O. leveraged a relationship with a stained-glass artist who helped the students create “mathematically correct artwork.” The final project was in glass, with design work done in origami, exploring trigonometric functions, polygons and polyhedra .

Can Math BE Art?

ELO Example: Geogami

Individual + Group ELO

1 Credit Geometry

Semester (4 months)

ELO Example: Geogami

Standards targeted included: •  Solve problems involving perimeter, circumference and area of two-

dimensional figures circumference. •  Solves problems on and off the coordinate plane involving distance,

midpoint, perpendicular and parallel lines, or slope. •  Makes and defends conjectures, constructs geometric arguments, uses

geometric properties, or uses theorems to solve problems involving angles, lines, polygons, circles, or right triangle ratios.

Cardiac Surgery ELO MANCHESTER CENTRAL SENIOR

Causes and treatment of congestive heart failure

HQT: Biology teacher COMMUNITY PARTNER: Elliot Hospital GOALS:

1.  cite implications of biotechnology of the medical fields 2.  connect basic anatomy of related physical systems for cardiac

surgery 3. explore career path, including financial needs, aptitudes and

education requirements RESULT:

½ biology credit and deepened passion to pursue medical career in cardiac surgery

Validity and Reliability

•  Validity: The assessment measures what it intends to measure

•  Reliability: The assessment yields consistent results. High reliability is a function of specificity, careful development, and good administration of the assessment, not a function of the form of the assessment.

•  Reliability is a requisite for validity.

Moderation Process

•  Development – Specificity – Quantitative and Qualitative

•  Testing – Consensus Moderation

•  Implementation – Guidelines for consistency

Valid and reliable assessment of uncommon learning

Three Stages for Use of the Process Rubrics

1.  Planning Stage “What’s Expected?”

2.  Along the way (Formative Stage) “Where am I?”

3.  Finally (Summative Stage) “Met? Not Yet?”