Assessment for Learning and Development

Principal Council Meeting

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning

February 2014

Welcome & Introductions

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Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grant

NC State Law “Read to Achieve”

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision

Gathering your input for the Assessment Design Team and Implementation Design

Team

Future Opportunities

Present understanding

Using the process of formative assessment

Using assessment data formatively

According to the Experts

• Formative Assessment is… all those activities undertaken by teachers, and by their students in assessing themselves, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged. Such assessment becomes ‘formative assessment’ when the evidence is actually used to adapt the teaching work to meet the needs.

Black and William, 1998; summarized in 2001

According to the Experts

Formative assessment practice operates as a feedback loop in which both teachers and students can play active, distinctive, yet complementary roles in enabling learning by consistently working to build and consolidate student understanding and skills during the course of a lesson.

Margaret Heritage, Spring 2011. Formative assessment: An enabler of learning. Better: Evidence-based Education.

Formative Assessment

• A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievement of intended instructional outcomes.

NC Department of Public InstructionCCSSO 2006

What does an effective teacher do?

Formative Assessment

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Classroom/School culture shift?

Minor or No Shift HUGE Shift

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision

5 Domains of Learning and Development

K-3 Formative Assessment Vision

Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grant

NC State Law “Read to Achieve”

What is essential?

How do we measure

this?

How do we implement for sustainability?

What is working? What could be?

Our Proposed Timeline

Task Timeline

K-3 Assessment Design & Development Spring 2013 – Summer 2014

Initial Implementation Fall 2014 – Spring 2015

Statewide Implementation Summer 2015 – ongoing

Future Stakeholders Opportunities

Teacher Advisory Team

Focus Group

Reviewers

Surveys

Conference Sessions

Webinars

NCDPI K-3 Assessment Wiki

http://rtt-elc-k3assessment.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/

Office of Early Learning Listserv

join-office_of_early_learning_pre-k-grade3@lists.dpi.state.nc.us

What Questions Do You Have?

Working Together

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