fall visit: year 2 please sit by grade levels within team/departments
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Culture of Continuous ImprovementSTEP #1
Assess Student Performance
Analyzing Achievement
for Struggling, Average, and Succeeding
Students
STEP #2
Assess the Assessment
STEP #3
Assess the Lesson Plans
Identifying Strengths and Concerns in Planning and Instructional Practices
Assessing Student Performance: Using Statistical Analysis
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Using Statistical Analysis
Remember: Numbers are only numbers. Context matters!
Analyzing test scores raises a variety of questions: Are the assessments valid? Did LP instruction move students toward self-reliance? Was formative assessment frequent and effective? Did A&I LPs flow logically and without distraction? Did E&R LPs challenge succeeding students?
Using Statistical Analysis –
Traditional Test
Analyzing Questions Related to Knowledge Types Identify test questions that assessed procedural knowledge versus those that assessed declarative knowledge. (Some questions may assess both.)
On which questions did students have more trouble – procedural or declarative?
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Knowledge Types: A Review
Construct meaning
Organize the knowledge
Store the knowledge
Learn the model
Shape the model
Internalize the model
Declarative Knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Sample Test Questions
Questions that address Declarative Knowledge
Which group would most likely agree with the ideas presented in Common Sense?
A.Patriots
B.Loyalists
C.Dutch sailors
D.Spanish soldiers
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Sample Test Questions
Questions that address Procedural Knowledge
Cause and EffectUsing the graphic organizer, list reasons for and consequences of the Boston Tea Party.
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Boston Tea Party
Using Statistical Analysis –
Traditional Test
Analyzing Questions that assessed the Unit GoalIdentify the questions that assessed the Unit Goal at an unsophisticated level.
Identify the questions that assessed the Unit Goal at a more challenging and sophisticated level.
Did each of these questions assess the Unit Goal at the same Bloom thinking level as the Unit Goal ?
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Sample Test Questions
Unsophisticated Questions that address the Unit Goal
Multiple Choice:Due to the Revolutionary War, the United States no longer traded with ________________.
A. France B. Great Britain C. Spain D. All of the above
Fill in the Blank:
The _______________ led colonists to claim “no taxation without representation.”
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Sample Test Questions
Sophisticated Questions that address the Unit Goal
Short Answer:
Imagine you are a Journalist living during the Revolutionary War. In three complete sentences, explain how the Sugar Act and Boston Massacre impacted your life.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Using Statistical Analysis –
Create an Improvement Plan
Traditional Test Effective Make Changes
Does the TT Challenge all student groups appropriately?
Affirm planning and instructional practice for both types of knowledge?
Ensure that Goal achievement is the basis for TT Grades?
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Using Statistical Analysis –
Create an Improvement Plan
Performance Assessment Effective Make Changes
Did the Performance Assessment assess the Unit Goal at the critical thinking level of the Unit Goal?
Does the Performance Assessment allow for multiple levels of achievement using tiering within the prompt or a tiered rubric?
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Using Statistical Analysis –
An Improvement Plan
The teacher found that her Performance Assessment did not match the Unit Goal and therefore needed to be rewritten to assess student mastery of the Unit Goal.
Unit Concept: American RevolutionUnit Goal: SWBAT explain events in American life that led to the Revolutionary War and the consequences for life in America.
Using Statistical Analysis –
Create an Improvement Plan
A&I Lesson Plans Effective Make Changes
Did LPs
Activate prior knowledge and introduce new ideas and concepts?
Engage multiple learning styles on core concepts?
Enable students to achieve an unsophisticated version of the Unit Goal prior to the Traditional Test?
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Using Statistical Analysis –
Create an Improvement Plan
A&I Lesson Plans
Student Self-reliance Effective Make Changes
Did LPs move students from reliance on the teacher to self-reliance?
Did LPs engage students with the Unit Goal in groups? In pairs? Individually?
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Using Statistical Analysis –
Create and Improvement Plan
A&I Instructional Practice
Declarative Knowledge Effective Make Changes
Procedural Knowledge Effective Make Changes
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Using Statistical Analysis –
Create an Improvement Plan
A&I LPs
Formative Assessments Effective Make Changes
How many formal formative assessments occurred during the unit?
How often did LPs note informal formative assessment?
Did formal formative assessments assess Objectives at the same critical thinking level as the Unit Goal?
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Using Statistical Analysis –
An Improvement Plan Reflect on the Assessments, Instruction, and Unit Cover
Page using the Unit Improvement Plan.
Unit Concept: American RevolutionUnit Goal: SWBAT explain events in American life that led to the Revolutionary War and the consequences for life in America.
Using Statistical Analysis –
An Improvement Plan The Statistics generated by the student data provide a starting point for reflection of potential changes. This teacher ultimately found that her Traditional Test was effective in showing student challenges – her
Acquiring & Integrating Lesson Plans needed to focus more deliberately on Declarative Knowledge.
Unit Concept: American RevolutionUnit Goal: SWBAT explain events in American life that led to the Revolutionary War and the consequences for life in America.
Using Statistical Analysis –
Create an Improvement Plan
E&R Lesson Plans Effective Make Changes
Are the LPs student-centered?
Did the LPs challenge succeeding students to engage with sophisticated instances of the Unit Goal and Concept?
Did the LPs allow failing students to revisit and meet the Unit Goal?
Analyzing Unit Effectiveness:Gr. 5 American Revolution unit
Preparing the Unit Improvement Plan
Using the Unit Improvement Plan as a guide, review your statistics and your unit.
Assessing Course Outcomes
Questions to consider:
What sort of evidence should be compiled showing student achievement of the Course Outcomes?
When should this evidence be gathered? Would this process begin in the 3rd quarter? 4th quarter? Earlier?
Should questions be created to provide evidence? If so, how would these questions be created? Collaboratively online using a Google Doc?
Assessing Team/Department Outcomes
Questions to consider:
What sort of evidence should be compiled showing student achievement of Team/Department Outcomes?
Would the process of evidence gathering begin in the final year of the team? Throughout the three years?
Should questions be created to provide evidence? If so, how would these questions be created? Collaboratively online using a Google Doc?