MISSOURI PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTSAn Overview

Content of the Assessments2

Pre-Service Teacher Assessments Entry Level Exit Level

School Leader Performance Assessment

Librarian Performance Assessment Counselor Performance Assessment

Pre-Service Entry Assessment

Entry Assessment4

Completed by the candidate immediately after acceptance into the teacher preparation program

Content created by the development team based on the Missouri Teacher Standards and Indicators, Mid-Preparation column

Will provide a baseline that will be compared to the results of the exit assessment based on the Candidate Column of the same standards

Developed for program evaluation

Overview of the Pre-Service Exit Assessment

Overview6

Is embedded in the clinical experience Offers four tasks: one formative, three

summative Focuses on the Missouri Teacher Standards

and Indicators (Candidate Column) Is sequential and developmental in approach Contains an observation component Provides a focus on the development of

reflective skills Connects to a Professional Competency

Profile

Commonalities of the Tasks7

Each task will require A written commentary that responds to

a series of prompts, The submission of artifacts, and A rubric that closely connects the

appropriate standards and indicators with the task directions and guiding prompts.

All tasks will be authored and scored within an online environment.

Additional Aspects of the Assessment

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Task responses will show growth over time and will be connected to Direct Observations Reflection Feedback Professional Competency Profile Student Survey

Additional Aspects of the Assessment

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Collaboration between the Educator Preparation Program (EPP) faculty and cooperating teachers

Accessibility to a personal online library to store artifacts

Scheduled window of time to complete each task, with Tasks 2 and 3 being interchangeable

Task 4 completed after the other tasks have been submitted

Task Content

The Task Topics11

Task1: Knowledge of Students and the Learning Environment

Task 2: Assessment and Data Collection to Measure Student Learning

Task 3: Instruction and Technology Task 4: Culminating Activity with a

fifteen-minute video

*The above are topics of the tasks; official names will be determined by the development team

School LeaderLibrarianCounselor

Three Other Assessments

The School Leader Assessment

Tasks14

Task 1: Problem Solving in the Field Task 2: Supporting Teacher

leadership Task 3: School/District-Wide

Professional Development

*The above are topics of the tasks; official names will be determined by the development team

The School Librarian Assessment

Tasks16

Task 1: Promoting Access Task 2: Collaborative Research Task 3: Understanding, Selecting,

and Implementing Technology

*The above are topics of the tasks; official names will be determined by the development team

The School Counselor Assessment

The Tasks18

Task 1: Maintaining and Enhancing the Guidance Program

Task 2: Organizing, Responding and Offering Support

Task 3: Interacting with the Classroom, the Faculty and/or Parent/Guardian

*The above are topics of the tasks; official names will be determined by the development team

Commonalities among the Three Advanced Assessments

Commonalities among the Assessments

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All tasks within each assessment will require A written commentary that responds to

a series of prompts, and The submission of artifacts.

All tasks will be Based on the relevant Missouri

standards. Authored and scored within an online

environment.

Commonalities21

Require a video within one task. Connect the required activities to a

clinical experience. Connect to a professional growth plan. Offer a personal online library for the

collection of artifacts.

The Pre-Service Assessment The Small-Scale Tryout The Pilot Pilot Scoring

How Are You Able to Get Involved?

Your Involvement: May-July 201323

The Tryout: an informal, small-scale “rough draft” response to directions and prompts created by the development team You would only need to respond to one draft

task and complete a feedback survey. Your response would be based on the idea, “If

I were responding to these prompts, this is what I, as a teacher candidate, would do.”

Your response could be in bulleted format. Your response would provide feedback to the

revision process.

Your Involvement for Fall 201324

The Pilot is a more formal, large-scale field test of the tasks and rubrics. We need your help to recruit 250

student teachers. We need diversity in the responses we

receive based on: Geography Ethnicity Content area Developmental level

Your Involvement for Fall 201325

Pilot participants will need to mirror the Pre-Service Assessment process by: Responding to all four tasks in the

appropriate sequence within the online authoring system.

Creating a written commentary that addresses all the guiding prompts.

Providing appropriate artifacts. Providing a fifteen-minute video in

response to Task 4 directions.

Your Involvement for Fall 201326

Participants will need to complete a feedback survey for each completed task.

The development team will provide a Pilot Participant Guide for help in creating the task responses and related activities. This will provide focus for the EPP

instructors, cooperating teachers, and student teachers.

Your Involvement for Fall 201327

DESE/EPPs will be supplied a technical report on the pilot that will outline the process, outcomes, information learned, and feedback from the participant surveys

Pilot participants will not receive scores from the pilot as the pilot is intended to inform the development of the assessment. Participants will receive recognition for their participation

Your Involvement for Spring 201428

Pilot Scoring: Score all participant submissions twice Be trained in the requirements of the tasks Be trained in the scoring process

Participate in the Formative Review process Review the participant feedback surveys Complete a form that provides ideas to the

development team for revision of the task directions, prompts, and rubrics

Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment

Scoring 2015

Scoring 201530

Training and scoring will be online. The training process will be developed

by ETS. Missouri educators will be trained as

raters, scoring leaders, and scoring directors.

Training will include in-depth study of benchmark and training cases.

All raters will be calibrated on a regular basis during the scoring sessions.

Scoring 201531

ETS research and statistics areas will collect data on a regular basis in order to maintain reliability.

Standard setting (establishing of the cut score) will occur in spring 2015.

The Missouri Pre-Service Assessment will be consequential fall of 2015.

Missouri Pre-Service Assessment Timeline

Timeline33

February 25-27: Examination of the characteristics of the teacher candidate and the standards and indicators being assessed

April 15-19: Connection of the standards and indicators to the four tasks. Development of the first draft of each task

May 1 to July 1: Small-scale tryout of the first drafts of the tasks

Timeline34

July 15-19: Review of the tryout responses, revision of the tasks, and the development of the rubrics

September 1, 2013 to January 1, 2014: Large-scale field test (Pilot). Recruitment of raters for Pilot scoring

March 2014: Scoring of Pilot responses Fall 2014: The MO Pre-Service Teacher

Assessment goes operational

Timeline35

Spring 2015: Standard Setting Fall 2015: MO Pre-Service Teacher

Assessment becomes consequential

The School Leader Assessment Timeline

Timeline37

1st Committee Meeting June 2013 2nd Committee Meeting July/August

2013 3rd Committee Meeting November

2013 Pilot – Spring 2014 Fall 2014: The School Leader

Assessment goes operational

The School Librarian and School Counselor Assessment

Timeline’s

Timeline39

1st Committee Meetings January 2014

2nd Committee Meetings March 2014 3rd Committee Meetings June 2014 Pilot – Fall 2014 Fall 2015: The School Librarian and

School Counselor Assessments go operational

Contacts40

Cathy Owens-Oliver Client Relations Director crowens@ets.org 609/683-2324

Ethan Taylor Client Management Director etaylor@ets.org 609/683-2962

Questions41

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