AssessmentPresentation

•Current State of Assessment

•Highlight Work During the 2015-2016 School Year

•Future Direction of Assessment

Presentation Purpose/Objectives

Illinois Learning Standards impact on the tests, the ability to realign and then get longitudinal data.•State of flux due to the change •College Readiness Exams

•State Accountability Assessments

•Benchmark Assessments

Current State of Assessment

Purpose of Assessment Plan

Data points in evaluating our efforts to have all students achieve their greatest potential

Assessment Plan Development• Administrator Work Groups• Building Principals

• District Administrators

• Plan Outline• Role of Curriculum and Instruction

• Student Learning Focus

• Roles and Responsibilities

• Types of Assessments

Assessment Review• Reviewed• Who uses the information?

• Is there another assessment that could provide the same information?

• Who is impacted if no longer using?

• Recommendation—Keep, Stop, or Replace

• Outcome

Guiding Principles•Aligns with local curriculum standards•Supports our district philosophy of learning•Provides assessment information for students, parents,

and educators•Provides data that will be used by Professional

Learning Communities to improve student learning by altering instruction•Supports the requirements of the teacher and principal

evaluation system•Utilizes a variety of assessment types to determine the

skills developed, the content mastered, and the abilities of individual students

Aligns with Local Curriculum Standards

Curriculum Alignment with the StandardsStandardized Assessments - PARCC and SATUniversal Screening - AIMSWeb

Guide Instructional Planning and DeliveryFormative Assessments

Provides Assessment Information for Students, Parents, and Educators• Summative Assessments - Assessment of Learning • Cumulative evaluation after a period of study (end of

unit, course, and year test) or • Nationally normed assessment (for example, SAT/ACT,

PARCC) • Formative assessments - Assessment for Learning • Provide feedback to the student and the teacher during

the period of instruction so that both parties know what work still needs to be done• Exit slips, quizzes, surveys, rough drafts of essays, and

class discussions

Assessment PlanStudent Learning • Skills -- Performance Tasks• Thinking, writing, speaking, reading, questioning,

reasoning, and problem solving

• Content Knowledge• Factual information - math, language arts, science,

social studies and elective/encore areas

Support Professional Learning Communities• Understanding by Design - Wiggins and McTighe

• PLC Framework:• What is it we expect our students to learn?• How will we know when they have learned it?• How will we respond when some students do not

learn it?• How will we respond when some students already

know it?

Future Work• How do we take this work and have it translate

into the classroom on a regularly occurring basis?• ILT

• PLC Audits

• SIP

• Training

• Alignment to Units of Study

Changes • SAT Statewide• AIMSWeb Plus• Expand the use of Common Formative

Assessments• Diagnostic Assessment - Future

Future Ready Reporting MeasuresEarly Childhood Elementary Middle School High School

IGDI PARCC PARCC PARCC

Portfolio Assessment AIMSWeb Plus AIMSWeb Plus SAT Suite

Attendance Attendance SAT Suite—PSAT 8/9 Equal Opportunity Schools

Check Point Reading—3rd Grade

Attendance Attendance

Check Point Math—5th Grade

Extra Curricular Participation

Extra Curricular Participation

KIDS

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