In this webcast, nationally recognized experts and RTI implementers provided guidance on using data
from multiple assessment functions to support and empower educator decision making within an RTI framework.
Effective use of data
from multiple assessment measures allows teachers to make good decisions about what they are teaching their students so that they don't necessarily teach students what they already know, but they really focus on the things they don't know, and identify, especially with struggling students, students who are not accessing grade level content well, helping teachers identify where those gaps or holes are in their needs.
Agency personnel use an assessment system that produces data
from multiple assessment measures.
Indicator 3.8 — Curriculum, instruction, and assessment are monitored and adjusted systematically in response to data
from multiple assessments of student learning and an examination of professional practice.
Not exact matches
Multiple outlets published stories yesterday reporting that results
from finger blood tests by medical startup Theranos showed greater irregularities than more conventional tests (according to the first published independent
assessment of the company's tests).
Even if that
multiple is based on historical ranges (medians or averages) or is comparable to industry peers or the market as a whole, investors fall short of capturing the uniqueness of a company's future cash flow stream and balance sheet via a discounted cash flow process, which considers all of the qualitative factors of a company —
from a competitive
assessment to the company's efficiency initiatives and beyond.
Added Vengosh: «Our new study, which integrates data
from multiple government and industry sources, provides the first comprehensive
assessment of fracking's total water footprint, both nationally and for each of the 10 major U.S. shale gas or tight oil basins.»
The results
from her study were incorporated into a vulnerability
assessment framework to investigate the cumulative impact of
multiple climatic processes on sea turtles nesting grounds.
Energy intake
from the
multiple pass 24 - h recall dietary intake
assessments also reflected a higher energy intake in the high - pulse group.
The average Pearson correlation coefficients comparing diet
assessment from our FFQ with
multiple 7 - d food records for 55 foods was 0.48 [18], with a range 0.24 to 0.76 for individual fruits and 0.13 to 0.53 for individual vegetables (S17 Table)[19].
«The writing task has then met
multiple goals: practice for the state test,
assessment of knowledge gained
from the social studies unit, and practice with a specific genre of writing.»
Teachers can set up
multiple classes and can connect and share documents,
assessments, etc.
from the iPad app or web - based interface.
The Student Editions include: • Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • Links to practice quizzes or activities • 12
assessments that include a total of 39
multiple choice, 2 true / false, and 2 sorting questions • Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards • Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading • Excerpts
from several high - quality texts, including: - «Harriet: The Moses of Her People» by Sarah H. Bradford - «The Narrative of Sojourner Truth» by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth - «On Women's Right to Vote» by Susan B. Anthony - «Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death» by Patrick Henry • Accompanying Teaching Notes files The Teaching Notes files include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional resources • Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further • Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
◦ Closing of achievement gaps using
multiple measures but shall include, at a minimum, results
from the statewide
assessment.
Use different
assessment methods and activities to measure different processes and outcomes, coming
from different learning styles, such as:
Multiple - choice questions - MCQ, ePortfolio
assessment, concept maps, clickers, or personal response systems - PRCS, online role - plays, scenario - based activities, judged mathematical expression, online discussions, etc..
He should instead examine the extensive 2006 National Research Council report on «Systems for State Science
Assessment» or the excellent
assessment section in the draft «National Educational Technology Plan 2010,»
from the U.S. Department of Education, which describes
multiple ways of making alternative
assessments practical.
As a result, few entrepreneurial companies secured business through these mechanisms; rather, the largest entrenched companies such as Pearson, secured large contracts
from multiple states and the
assessment consortia.
When those who see themselves on the discovery learning or constructivist side also see themselves as facilitators they may shy away
from giving «hard»
assessment, reporting «failure» or providing feedback which might upset or discourage the learner, a reluctance that can become very strong if you also subscribe to notions of «free expression» and «
multiple realities.»
On a schoolwide scale, administrators contemplating eliminating or reducing funding for the subjects not covered by state
assessments are likely to hear protests (
from parents, teachers, students, and even internally) about neglecting children's
multiple intelligences.
It's just that, if you are
from the camp that believes in using
multiple assessment,
multiple ways of allowing students to demonstrate learning, then you might want to consider framing
assessments in scenarios as well.
In summer 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in cooperation with the MacArthur Foundation, made a significant investment to establish the Games Learning and
Assessment Lab (GlassLab), which includes top game developers,
assessment experts, and researchers
from multiple fields and disciplines.
Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new
assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on
multiple fronts — with big bucks
from major foundations — to transform how the country views
assessment and how states engage in it.
The correlation between the portfolio scores and the Uniform Writing
assessment were moderate, as one might expect
from other research; however, these same levels of correlations were found between writing portfolios and a
multiple choice math test.
The system connects data
from multiple sources,
from self -
assessment and classroom observation results to information
from student learning and achievement projects.
iObservation collects evidences
from multiple data sources including formal observations, classroom walkthroughs, peer
assessments, and self
assessments.
For more
assessment perceptions
from parents — along with teachers, students, and school administrators — check out the full survey — Make
Assessment Work for All Students:
Multiple Measures Matter, and explore our site here at assessmentliteracy.org for resources on
assessment types and purposes.
Turning the focus of
assessment from multiple - choice questions to an open - ended approach increases a teacher's capacity to identify where their students are struggling.
Multiple Choice
Assessments can be created
from an existing Google Doc or Dropbox file.
The new Benchmark Performance Levels reporting widget accessible
from the Teacher Dashboard summarizes
multiple measures of student performance on district benchmark
assessments for your entire class at once... Continue reading
Here is the description of Opt Out Orlando taken
from their site: «Opt Out Orlando advocates for
multiple measures of authentic
assessments, such as a portfolio, non-high stakes standardized tests (Iowa Test of Basic Standards (ITBS) or the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT10)-RRB-, which are used to inform teachers» instruction of their students and which do not result in punitive consequences for students, teachers and schools.
There are several options available, but in our district, we use the Performance Matters
assessment and data management system (ADMS) and Unify
assessment platform to access and analyze student data
from multiple sources.
Student Work Analysis: Analyzing and Acting on Evidence: This interactive PDF tool can be used to analyze results
from performance tasks in order to (a) refine the
assessment or scoring rubrics; (b) plan next steps for instruction; and / or (c) better understand the progression of learning across
multiple assessments.
Unique to Renaissance, the Renaissance Mastery Model tracks student data
from multiple sources, including Star
Assessments, Star Custom, and state summative tests (PARCC, Smarter Balanced, ACT Aspire) all in one place to provide a unified measure of mastery, helping you make informed decisions and guide your students toward success.
View data — state
assessments, national
assessments, local measures, including both academic and behavioral indicators —
from multiple disparate systems to provide real - time insight, and enable action to be taken when needed.
Should any of these states and districts also tie serious consequences to such output (e.g., merit pay, performance plans, teacher termination, denial of tenure), or rather tie serious consequences to measures of growth derived via any varieties of the «
multiple assessment» that can be pulled
from increasingly prevalent
multiple assessment «menus,» states and districts are also setting themselves for lawsuits... no joke!
This report is unique because it combines data
from multiple FastBridge Learning
assessments in one place so that teachers have a breadth of information for instructional planning.
By including numerous
assessment criteria that rate the educational process
from multiple perspectives, the process itself becomes more democratic under New Public Service.
Such information comes
from formative
assessments that include
multiple measures of student learning.
I often run
from standard to standard, hoping students will feel confident and equipped to handle the
multiple assessments my district requires.
From multiple choice to written responses to one - on - one teacher - student communication, there are ways teachers can assess proficiency, but at any given time there are also factors that can lead to inaccurate
assessment.
The
assessments accompanying these new standards depart
from the old, much less expensive,
multiple - choice style tests to
assessments, which include constructed responses.
As a result, states began to move away
from performance - based
assessment systems back to less - expensive
multiple - choice
assessments.
Be sure to include a variety of different
assessment methods,
from multiple - choice formats to scenario exams.
At the same time, program leaders noted that including members
from multiple subject areas can provide a broader perspective, interdisciplinary connections, and more consistency in instruction and
assessment practices across the school.
B. Integrates
assessment data
from multiple sources into instructional planning and improvement.
State officials, psychometricians, and
assessment developers shared their experiences around creating and implementing their own innovative
assessment tools, all of which aim to move students away
from traditional pencil - and - paper
multiple - choice formats to
assessments that meet one or more of the following criteria: 2
From that foundation we can develop coordinated plans for the use of
multiple measures, taking advantage of dependable data generated at every level of
assessment.
This issue brief examines teachers» use of
multiple assessments in a state - funded preschool program, and includes specific recommendations and practical solutions to provide teachers more support in this area —
from Mathematica
The bad news is that most schools have no way to combine the
assessment information
from multiple sources in ways that are useful for driving instructional improvement or managing student progress.
The platform allows teachers to find
assessments or create their own using a variety of question types
from multiple choice to drag - and - drop.