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Providing parents the key to understanding assessment
Margaret Pupillo, Area Superintendent Susan Baker, STEM Kimberly Jenks,
Exceptional Child Errol Dice, Behavior Audra Wheeler, Professional Learning
LaKenji Hastings, Assessment Hannah Zey, Humanities
Informed Parent Session Presented by the NWLC
Educate about Fulton County Schools’ vision of balanced assessment
Enlighten parents on the shift to the Georgia Milestones Assessment System
Equip parents with knowledge about the resources being used to assist students in meeting learning goals
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Desired Outcomes:
Four Key Understandings to Unlock
Balanced Assessme
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Instructional Shifts
Assessment Shifts (GMAS)
FCS Assessme
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-To plan learning
-To support learning
-To monitor learning
-To verify learning
Why do we assess?
Balanced Assessment
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Balance is KEY to Growth
Plan and individualize instruction by determining student prior knowledge
Diagnostic Formative Mid-unit
Formative Summative Reteach/Recovery
Monitor learning and
evaluate instructional
effectiveness; Feedback
High quality, practice
assessment for instructional
decision making
Monitor learning and
evaluate instructional
effectiveness; Feedback
Used to verify learning and
quality of instruction; can be formative as
well
. Assessment given to measure
growth after re-teaching
and remediation
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State Required:-GKIDS -Student Learning Objectives (SLOs)-Georgia Milestones EOG -GA Alternate Assessment -ACCESS (ELLs)
System Level:-Diagnostic Placement -ITBS-STAR
Balanced Assessment Resources:-Math Pre-Unit Assessments -Writescore-Math Unit Assessments -DRA2-ELA Performance Assessments -Fountas & Pinnell BAS-Item Bank Questions -GMAS Diagnostics
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Fulton County Balanced Assessment Plan (K-5):
Achievement • One time snapshot of
student performance
• Looks at the collective performance
• Summative
Example:
97% of 3rd Grade students passed the reading CRCT.
Growth • Look at student performance
over time• Better inform students,
parents and teachers of student strengths and lesser strengths
Example: Kevin showed an 35% increase in his ability comprehend informational text. 7
Achievement vs. Growth
1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts
2. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text
3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary
Common Core Instructional Shifts
Key ELA/Literacy Shifts
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1. Greater focus on fewer topics
2. Coherence: Linking topics and thinking across grades
3. Rigor: Pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skills and fluency, and application with equal intensity
Common Core Instructional Shifts
Key Mathematic Shifts
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Georgia Milestones
• Coherent-Consistent expectations regarding rigor and student preparedness within grades and courses and with external measures
• Comprehensive-Single program across the subjects and grades
• Consolidate-Reading, language arts, and writing into one assessment
Comprehensive
• Grades 3 – 8• End of Grade (EOG) in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies
Consolidated
Consolidation of English Language Arts
• English Language Arts and reading will be combined and a writing component added for every grade level and course within the ELA assessment
• One overall ELA score and proficiency designation
• Reporting categories below the overall content area will be reported similar to the domains on the CRCT
• Cannot make proficiency claims at the lower level reporting categories
Georgia MilestonesTransition to Online Starts this school year• Online administration will be the primary
mode of administration for Georgia Milestones for all grades
– Year 1: minimum of 30% online– Year 3: minimum of 80% online– Year 5: minimum of 100% online
• EVERY School will participate in online testing this school year
• Paper/pencil versions will be available for the small number of students who cannot interact with computer due to their disability. Braille forms will be available.
Georgia Milestones
KEY Things to note….
• First year results will be delayed until fall of 2015 due to standard setting
• The State Board has waived through July 2015:
– 160-4-2-.11 Promotion, Placement, and Retention sections (3)(a), (3)(b), (3)(c)
– 160-4-2-.13 Statewide Passing Score sections (2)(d), (2)(e), (2)(f)
Georgia Milestones
KEY Things to note….
• While the state board has waived student accountability this first year, it has not waived implementation of the EOG or EOC
• Students will receive results that will be included in their permanent record in the fall of 2015
Blended: Criterion-Referenced & Norm-Referenced
Criterion-Referenced
• Did students learn a specific body of knowledge
• Meet a set cut score to determine proficiency
Norm-Referenced
• Designed to rate and rank test takers in relation to others
• Generally reported as percentages
Georgia Milestones
• Georgia Milestones is primarily a criterion-referenced test, reflecting the content standards for each grade and course
• teachers should teach the Georgia state-adopted content standards and not to the NRT standards
• All accountability uses of the test results – for both students and educators – will be based on the criterion-referenced scores and proficiency determinations
Common Accommodations
Online Only
Read Aloud
IEP Team cannot
decide on human reader
Small group
not require
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Needs Careful Consideration
Paper &
Online versio
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Scribe
Should be used
infrequently
Many specific requirements for use of this accommodati
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Accommodations Cycle
Select Accommodati
ons
Use/Practice accommodati
ons in classroom
Evaluate use and
effectiveness of
accommodations
Online Tools for ALL Students• Blocking Tool• Eraser• Highlighter• Magnifying Glass• Mark for Review• Online Calculator – if allowable• Option Eliminator• Scratch Pad• Test Pause
Use the following link to access the site:
http://learnoas.ctb.com/GA/
Note that no login is required. All you need to do to access a test is to click on the login button to begin your experience.
Experience Online Testing in Georgia
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Item Types
• Selected-Response [aka, multiple-choice]• all content areas• evidence-based selected response in ELA
• Constructed-Response• ELA and mathematics
• Extended-Response• ELA and mathematics
• Technology Enhanced• to begin in 2016-2017
Georgia Milestones
General Test Parameters
• ELA - 3 sections, 1 of which will focus mainly on writing
• Mathematics, Science and Social Studies will consist of 2 sections
• Each section will be approximately 70 minutes.
Writing at Every Grade Level
• All students will encounter a constructed-response item allowing for narrative prose, in response to text, within the 1st or 2nd test section.
• Writing prompts will be informative/explanatory or opinion/argumentative depending on the grade level. Students could encounter either genre.
Georgia Milestones
Georgia Milestones
ELACriterion-Referenced
Total Number of Items: 44 / Total Number of Points: 55
Breakdown by Item Type:• 40 Selected Response (worth 1 point each; 10 of which are aligned
NRT)• 2 Constructed Response (2 points each)
• 1 Constructed Response (worth 4 points)• 1 Extended Response (worth 7 points)
Norm-Referenced• Total Number of Items: 20 (10 of which contribute to CR score)
Embedded Field Test• Total field test items: 6
Total number of items taken by each student: 60
Sample ELA GMAS Items
Fourth Grade
Seventh Grade
Am. Literature
What is the theme of the story, The Great Surprise, and how does the author reveal this theme? Use details from the story to support your answer.
What are two central ideas that can be found in BOTH “Animal Roles and Relationships” and “UnusualAnimal Friendships”? Use details from BOTH articles to support your answer.
The author claims that Dickey’s career as a poet declined after the success of his novel Deliverance.How does the author develop this claim? Use details from the text to support your answer.
Georgia MilestonesMathematicsCriterion-Referenced
Total Number of Items: 53 / Total Number of Points: 58
Breakdown by Item Type:• 50 Selected Response (worth 1 point each; 10 of which are
aligned NRT)
• 2 Constructed Response (worth 2 points each)
• 1 Constructed Response (worth 4 points)
Norm-Referenced• Total Number of Items: 20 (10 of which contribute to CR score)
Embedded Field Test• Total field test items: 10
Total number of items taken by each student: 73
Constructed Response
George and Ana each had a 12-inch pizza. Both pizzas were split into 8 equal pieces. The shaded pieces are the portion of their pizzas that George and Ana ate.
Express in fractions how much pizza George and Ana ate. Use the symbol <, =, or > to show who ate more pizza.
>The content and presentation of these items are for illustrative purposes only.
George Ana
George Ana
Constructed Response•
12 inches
George Ana
9 inches
12 inches
George
12 inches
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Georgia Milestones
Science/Social StudiesCriterion-Referenced
Total Number of Items: 55 / Total Number of Points: 55
Breakdown by Item Type:• 55 Selected Response (worth 1 point each; approximately 10 of which
are aligned NRT)
Norm-Referenced• Total Number of Items: 20 (approximately 10 of which contribute to
CR score)
Embedded Field Test• Total field test items: 10
Total number of items taken by each student: 75
State Resources Available
•Content standards (GPS & CCGPS)
•Sample items • formative items via Georgia FAR;
• released items via PARCC, Smarter Balance, other states (KY, NY)
•Lexiles
State Resources Available NOW
•CRCT Readiness Indicators•Formative Instructional Practices (FIP) professional learning modules•Aligns to TKES/LKES
•NAEP Item Tool
Resources • Sample items specific to Georgia Milestones
• Ancillary support resources, such as
• Content Descriptions (test blueprints)
• Student Study Guides• Technology Specifications• Accommodations Guidelines• Assessment for Learning Modules
[types of items to elicit evidence of student learning]
• Informational videos [parents & public / educators]
Assessment Program Specialists
• Carla Austin, CLC
•LaKenji Hastings, NWLC
• Orrie Henry, NELC
• Heavenly Montgomery, SLC 44
FIP Implementation & Sustainability
Assessment Leaders Cohort (ALC)
• Assessment Leaders Cohort (ALC) will focus on professional learning resources from Georgia’s
Formative Instructional Practices (FIP) modules.
• The purpose of the ALC is to secure a cohort of teachers who are able to build capacity within their
schools on assessment related practices.
• FIP is the median we will use to engage in deeper conversations related to instruction and assessments.