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TIE Conference April 18, 2010
Using ExamView and Achievement Series to Create Custom-Made
Assessments
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Roxanne EverhardESA 6, Three Rivers Coop
reverhard@tie.net605-430-4467
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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you toVickie Venhuizen
ESA, Region 2715 East 14th Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57104(605) 367-7680
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Cell phones off/ vibrate Breaks
◦ One formal◦ As needed
Feel free to ask any questions as they come up
Feel free to share with the group Feel free to help adjust agenda
Housekeeping
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Follow along at:
http://conference2010.tie2.
wikispaces.net/
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Take some M&Ms…
Now tell one thing about yourself, professionally and personally for
each M& M you took…And why you choose this session…
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Review effective assessment practices Basic use of Achievement Series Install ExamView and explore how to use it
with Achievement Series How to create assessments with your own
items in ◦ Achievement Series ◦ Exam View for paper tests printing
Outcomes for the day
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Effective Assessment
Practices
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Deliver Instruction
Administer assessment
Analyze results
Plan- Adjust Instruction
Create Assessment
Celebrate!
"We assess to gather evidence of student learning that will inform instructional decisions to maximize that learning."
-Stiggins
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(Diagnostic – Pre-assessments) Assessment for Learning (Formative
Assessment): How can we use assessments to help students learn more?
Assessment of Learning (Summative
Assessment): How much have students learned as of a particular point in time?
Formative and Summative Assessment
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Assessment FOR Learning(Formative)
Assessment OF Learning (Summative)
Reason Improve learning Check Status
To Inform Students about themselves Teachers to adjust instruction
Others about students
Focus Enabling targets Students
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What aDifferencea WordMakes
B Y R I C K S T I G G I N S A N D J A N C H A P P U I S
Assessment FOR learningrather thanassessment OF learninghelps students succeed
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Share one goal for improving your
assessment practices with someone next to you
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Basic use of Achievement
Series
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Please note your log-in
information Site ID: 15-4678-8770
Your “student” ID: for example, mmorgan
Test ID: 36090
Your “staff” ID: for example, Staff40
Staff password: scantron2
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Shares the same platform as DACS.
Has over 1,000 pre-made tests items aligned to the SD Standards that are available to South Dakota teachers
Houses South Dakota item banks and (National) ScanTron item banks
Can be used to spot check students to see if they have mastered the individual standard you have taught and/or to monitor progress toward the standard.
◦ You can test more than one standard at a time
◦ You can develop your own test* or use a pre-made test
*Using your own or premade assessment items
Achievement Series
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First, a word about Administration and
set-up information
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Different locations: Change in upper right hand corner
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Students
Classes
Teachers
Students assigned to classes
Teachers assigned to classes
Students are NOT assigned
to teachers
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Further resources on Achievement Series can also be found at:
http://conference2010.tie2.wikispaces.net/
http://reverhard.tie.wikispaces.net Achievement Series
http://esa6.tie2.wikispaces.net/
http://jmathiesen.tie.wikispaces.net/Aseries
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Achievement Series information at DOE/
Importing student lists
Laura SnowSouth Dakota Department of Education
Laura.Snow@state.sd.us605-773-8193
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Achievement Series Websitewww.achievementseries.com
Site ID: 15-4678-8770Test ID: 36090
Your “student name”: for example, mmorganNo Password is needed
Let’s Practice..taking a test and reviewing results….Log In…
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Creating a Test
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Achievement Series Websitewww.achievementseries.com
Site ID: 15-4678-8770
Your “staff” ID: for example, Staff40
Staff password: scantron2
Let’s Practice…Creating a test….
Log In…
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Recommendations: ◦ Normal (test options)◦ Test properties (Step 1 of 4) Leave defaults◦ Class assignment (Step 2 of 4)
◦ Test options and Save test (Step 3 of 4) Leave defaults◦ Select Next Activity or Close (Step 4 of 4)
Automatically Find Content for…
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Left side
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Right side
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Left side
Right side
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Easiest feature to use
Most effective with students
Output that is most helpful to me
Most frustrating part
Wish it had…Most difficult to remember how to do
Best/ Worst of Achievement Series
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Create your own tests using
◦State created assessment items◦Assessment items you’ve written yourself◦ExamView (einstruction.com) and Assessment items you’ve written yourself Text book materials
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Install and begin using ExamView
with Achievement Series
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If you haven’t already, Download ExamView
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If you haven’t already, Download ExamView
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How to create assessments in
Achievement Series using textbook
materials
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How to create assessments with your own items
in ExamView for
-printing to paper -transfer to
Achievement Series
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Deliver Instruction
Administer assessment
Analyze results
Plan- Adjust Instruction
Create Assessment
Celebrate!
"We assess to gather evidence of student learning that will inform instructional decisions to maximize that learning."
-Stiggins
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Q & A
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Thank you again to
Vickie VenhuizenESA, Region 2
715 East 14th StreetSioux Falls, SD 57104
(605) 367-7680
Thanks also to Jane Daum, Carmen Miller and Teri Kinsley of Jones County for sharing discs.
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Thank you for your time, attention and all you do for students!
Roxanne EverhardESA 6
605-430-4467reverhard@tie.net