Comprehensive Assessment System

Webinar #1September 28, 2011

Session Topic:

What is a comprehensive assessment system and how does it support other RIDE initiatives?

Session Objectives

The purpose of this session is to:

1) Come to a common understanding of what a comprehensive assessment system is and what its purposes are

2) Illustrate the relationship between a CAS and:

– Educator Evaluation– Transition to CCSS– Transition to PARCC– RTTT assessment initiatives– Instructional Management System

“Each LEA shall develop a Comprehensive Assessment System that includes measures of student performance for the purposes of formative, interim, and summative evaluations of all students in each core content area.” –Basic Education Program, Section G-13-3

Comprehensive Assessment System

Comprehensive Assessment

System

Comprehensive Assessment System Criteria & Guidance

Comprehensive Assessment System

A comprehensive assessment system is a coordinated plan for monitoring the academic achievement of students from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12.

The goals of the comprehensive assessment system are to:

- increase student learning by producing actionable data-evaluate the effectiveness of programs-ensure that all students are making progress toward achieving learning goals.

Topics addressed by guidance

• Purposes of assessment-to inform instruction-to screen/identify-to measure outcomes

• Types of assessment– Formative– Interim– Summative

Topics addressed by guidance

Topics addressed by guidance

• Developing and selecting assessments• Reliability & validity• Interpreting and communicating data• Suggested next steps• Appendices

Topics addressed by guidance

Features of a Comprehensive Assessment System

Necessary data is collected &unnecessary data is

not collected

Educators are educated consumers of data

Data is used appropriately to make programmatic

and instructional decisions

Data is communicated clearly to stakeholders

PROCESS

Comprehensive Assessment System

Unit tests, summative performance tasks, PBGR end-of-course exams, senior projects

•NAEP•PSAT, SAT, AP•TIMSS, PIRLS, PISA•NECAP (PARCC)•RIAA (NCSC-GSEG)•ACCESS for ELLS

•Exit tickets, observations, class discussions, questions asked during instruction

•Progress monitoring (PLP, RTI, ELL, etc.)

Examples of Assessments

Link to Educator Evaluation

Professional Practice

Professional Responsibilities

Student Learning

-RIGM-SLOs

Link to Educator Evaluation

Availability of useful data

Facilitation of Student Learning Objectives

Professional Practice - Formative Assessment

Link to CCSS

Link to CCSS

Monitor student achievement during transition

to identify priority areas

Local, common assessments

- Aligned to standards

-Interim or end-of-course assessments based on

common understanding of mastery at each grade

PARCC will be based upon the CCSS

PARCC & NCSC-GSEG will be based on the Common Core State Standards

15RIAA 2011-12 Administrator's Workshop

Link to PARCC

PARCC design - Proposed new design:

Link to PARCC

Determine which PARCC options meet LEA

needs

Understand what state assessment data can

and cannot tell us about student achievement

Long-term: more meaningful comparison data

between states

Link to NCSC-GSEG: Learning Progressions will be as a bridge, not Alternate Assessment Standards

18RIAA 2011-12 Administrator's Workshop

The New Alternate Assessment (NCSC-GSEG) Test Features

• Still in development phase.– Unique student population– Pushing the limits of test development for these

students– Tasks will be “tighter” and teachers will not have

to think up tasks on their own.– Online system to deliver tasks to teachers, not

necessarily students• This will allow teachers to adapt the test to the

student, not the student adapting to the test.

Link to Formative, Interim, Data Use

Link to Formative, Interim, Data Use

Gap analysis to identify PD priorities

Build assessment literacy in preparation for 2012 resource roll-out

Link to IMS

Single sign-on

Access and query data, run reports

Resources: formative assessment modules and interim assessment system

Support for Developing your CAS

Resources

Comprehensive Assessment System webpagehttp://www.ride.ri.gov/assessment/CAS.aspx

Educator Evaluationhttp://www.ride.ri.gov/EducatorQuality/EducatorEvaluation/

Common Core Transition & PARCChttp://www.ride.ri.gov/Division-EEIE/transition.aspx

Questions?

Upcoming Webinars

Oct. 5th

NECAP Q&A

Oct. 12th

CAS & Student Learning Objectives

Oct. 19th

Taking inventory using the Assessment Maps (Appendix A)

November 9th

Follow up on Assessment Maps (Appendix A) & next steps