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Michigan Assessment Consortium

Michigan Assessment Consortium. Common Assessment Training Modules Session B5 Michigan School Testing Conference February 23, 2011. Session Topics. Why a module series? What are the module topics? What was the development process? How can the modules be used? What is next?.

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Michigan Assessment Consortium

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  1. Michigan Assessment Consortium • Common Assessment Training Modules • Session B5 • Michigan School Testing Conference • February 23, 2011

  2. Session Topics • Why a module series? • What are the module topics? • What was the development process? • How can the modules be used? • What is next?

  3. Michigan Assessment Consortium • Promote assessment knowledge and practice • Provide professional development • Produce and share assessment tools and products

  4. What is the Common Assessment Module Series? • Overview of technically-sound but understandable methods for creating common assessments • Step-by-step process • Reliable and valid measures

  5. What was Development Process? • Received grant from MAISA • Development team gathered to create topics and prioritize key concepts • Wrote module scripts and PPT and collected supporting documents

  6. What was Development Process? • Piloted with facilitators teams from regions and some individual districts over school year • - collected assessment work • - offered feedback • Will revise content and materials based on participant feedback • Final edits and production (Spring 2011)

  7. Development Team • Kathy Dewsbury-White, Ingham ISD • Bruce Fay, Wayne RESA • Jim Gullen, Oakland Schools • Julie McDaniel, Oakland Schools • Edward Roeber, MSU • Ellen Vorenkamp, Wayne RESA • Kimberly Young, Ionia County ISD

  8. Why a module series? • State and national assessment requirements • MI high school graduation requirements • Lack of educator training in assessment • Pursuit of balanced assessment systems • Power of focused teacher conversations about assessment results to improve student achievement

  9. Using This Series You Will Learn…… • Definition of common assessment and when to use them • Criteria to select learning targets & match with appropriate assessment methods • How to develop, edit, field test, review and revise • How to use and report assessment results • Using assessment as a tool to improve student achievement

  10. Who Should Use the Modules Series? • Individual teachers interested in improving their assessment practice • School or district teams that want to build common assessments • District or intermediate district specialists who are leading others in assessment development

  11. What Modules are in the Series? • The modules include: • 1. Intro and Overview of MAC CA Series • 2. What Are Common Assessments? • 3. Determining the Outcome of the Common Assessment • 4. Determining the Targets of the Assessment • 5. Matching the Assessment Methods to the Learning Targets • 6. Assessing Students with Special Needs • 7. Writing the Test Blueprint

  12. What Modules are in the Series? • 8. Writing Selected-Response Items • 9. Writing Constructed Response Items • 10. Writing Performance Assessment Items • 11. Using Portfolios to Assess Students • 12. Developing and Using Scoring Guides and Rubrics • 13. Editing the Draft Assessment Items • 14. Detecting and Eliminating Bias and Distortion • 15. Assembling the Assessment Instrument

  13. What Modules are in the Series? • 16. Field Testing • 17. Looking at Field Test Data • 18. Reliability • 19. Test Validity • 20. Assembling the Final Common Assessment • 21. Assessment Administration, Scoring, and Reporting • 22. Standard Setting • 23. Presenting the Results • 24. Using Data to Improve Instruction

  14. What is Next? • Final edits to each of the modules • Production of video clips and supporting documents • Clips and documents available on MIstreamnet.com in late spring

  15. Sneak Peek.. Module 16: Field Testing

  16. Colleague Chat… • How might you use these modules? • What might your hunches be about the pros and cons? • What other module series should the MAC consider developing? • Teacher assessment literacy? • Assessment issues in evaluating educators • Others?

  17. Contact • Kathy Dewsbury-White – Ingham ISD • kdwhite@inghamisd.org • Ed Roeber – Michigan State University • roeber@msu.edu • Kimberly Young – MDE/OEAA • youngk1@michigan.gov • • MAC Website: www.michiganassessmentconsortium.org

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