new directions in assessment: professional development and teacher evaluation maurice hauck, phd...

New Directions in Assessment: Professional Development and

Teacher Evaluation

Maurice Hauck, PhDStrategic Advisor, Assessment Division

Educational Testing [email protected]

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Educational Testing Service

• A not-for-profit educational institution founded in 1947• Develops, administers, and scores more than 50

million tests annually at more than 9,000 locations in over 180 countries

• ETS-branded assessments include…– TOEFL www.toeflgoanywhere.org– TOEIC www.ets.org.toeic– GRE General and Subject Tests www.ets.gre– The Praxis family www.ets.org.praxis

• As well as dozens of assessment programs for clients including the College Board, PISA, NAGB, California Department of Education, etc.

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Educational Testing Service

• “Our mission is to help advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research and related services. Our products and services measure knowledge and skills, promote learning and performance and support education and professional development for all people worldwide.”

• For more information: www.ets.org


http://www.ets.org/

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What can tests provide?• Standardized information about the

knowledge/skills/abilities of individuals and groups for a range of purposes.

• Explicit information about how the assessment is designed to be: – Valid– Reliable– Fair– Practical


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Why assess teachers?

• Teacher assessments as a type of employment testing

• Teacher quality as an essential element of a strong educational system

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Some purposes for assessments of teachers

• To determine if potential undergraduate education majors have foundational skills

• To determine if pre-service/potential teachers have required knowledge: – Subject area– Principles of pedagogy

• For ongoing professional development of in-service teachers

• To certify that in-service teachers have attained a certain skill level

• To influence a teacher education and preparation system


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One Test Can’t Do It All

• Need different tests for different purposes• Assessment design as a process of value

judgments and tradeoffs• The importance of multiple measures --

particularly for something as complex as teaching


ELTeach

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The Need

• A world-wide need for more effective teaching of English in public-sector K-12 schools.

• A compelling need to enable and empower the classroom teacher:– To build professional knowledge and

confidence– To provide language skills needed to teach

English in English


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• A professional development system to improve the effectiveness of public-sector teachers of English as a foreign language

• A collaboration between Cengage Learning (learning materials) and ETS (assessments)


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ELTeach: Two Strands


Kansas Educator Evaluation Protocol (KEEP)

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The Need

• A teacher evaluation system that will meet needs both internal and external to the educational system

• Include a significant formative component to improve teaching practice

• Design for flexible use across a wide range of contexts (including new vs. experienced teachers)


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The Process• Evaluation framework guided by Kansas educators,

both teachers and supervisors• Identify “critical aspects of teaching that would

distinguish strong and weaker teaching practice”• Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support

Consortium (InTASC) standards as a guiding document

• Multiple measures: – Observations– On-line portfolios of artifacts (lesson/unit plans, student

work, data collected, etc.)– Teacher test scores


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InTASC Constructs and Components


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Reviewing and Interpreting the InTASC Standards

• What is the critical knowledge, skill, or ability to be evaluated?

• What would be convincing evidence of this knowledge, skill, or ability?

• How could this evidence best be collected?


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For discussion

• What are the assessment needs of the Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools?

• What decisions need to be made about the knowledge/skills/abilities of:– Students– Teachers

• What information could assessments provide to help in making those decisions?


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