The consultation asks for thoughts on removing the requirement for schools to submit
teacher assessment data when it's not used as part of school accountability.
Not exact matches
Along with regular
assessments on psychosocial, behavioral, and biological risk factors for poor health, researchers collected
data from children, parents, and
teachers on bullying behavior
when the participants were 10 to 12 years old.
This section also seems to imply that
teachers will always lead
assessments,
when in fact automated
assessment and
data engines may help significantly in these areas.
Collaborative
data meetings:
When teacher teams sit down to discuss the results of common
assessments, principals join in and help make these meetings an engine for improvement.
Often,
assessment data bogs
teachers down
when they are trying to connect it back to instructional strategies.
Despite Dr. Coley's focus on the right work and her
teachers consistent practices to close the achievement gap at the school,
when they received preliminary state
assessment data, they still had many, many students not working at grade level.
A rapidly growing number of schools have made a momentous discovery:
When teachers regularly and collaboratively review
assessment data for the purpose of improving practice to reach measurable achievement goals, something magical happens.
New
teacher evaluation systems demand the inclusion of student
data at a time
when scores on new
assessments are dropping.
Assessment results and
data all too often do not tell the whole story, but
when an
assessment truly works we can actually see student growth and
teachers...
The
teacher will use information from this pre-assignment to customize the formative
assessment lesson to student needs and create questions for students to consider
when improving their work, such as, Is it better to use this chart or that one to display your
data?
Understanding a few key
data measurement concepts can help
teachers and educators improve their comfort level
when it comes to communicating
assessment data and how it translates into student learning.
Finally, once the
assessment is given and the
data analyzed,
teachers must collectively respond to the learning of students... not just continue to move students to the next unit without re-engaging them as my husband and I did
when finishing the painting job in the kitchen.
So while the
teachers keep barking up the tree that the
teacher evaluations are junk science,
when will the
teachers speak up with the same loud voice in regards to the personal and private
data that is being stolen from our kids within Smarter Balanced Assessments and included in CT's Statewide Longitudinal Data Base, and shared with 3rd party vendors without parental cons
data that is being stolen from our kids within Smarter Balanced
Assessments and included in CT's Statewide Longitudinal
Data Base, and shared with 3rd party vendors without parental cons
Data Base, and shared with 3rd party vendors without parental consent?
While
data literacy is certainly important
when it comes to statistical analysis and psychometrics, for
teachers,
assessment data can often become cumbersome to parse and connect back to instructional strategies.
This planning can occur collaboratively with
teachers in their professional learning communities (PLCs)
when they are aligning curriculum,
assessment and instruction while reviewing student performance
data.
Sophisticated value - added modeling — using student
assessment data, adjusted for some student and school characteristics, to determine how much growth in student performance occurred with a particular
teacher — is relatively untested as a high - stakes measure, as demonstrated by the controversy that arose
when the Los Angeles Times released value - added
assessment data by
teacher (see http://projects.latimes.com/value-added/).
Ms. Heller used to get nervous
when her principal conducted these classroom walk - throughs at the end of the semester, but now that her school has created the
assessment team, which includes
teachers, curriculum directors, students, and administrators, she knows that the
data collected by the learningmanagement system will be used to support her teaching, not jeopardize her job.
The brief shows that
when properly used and understood,
assessment data can create better schools, better
teachers and better readers.
When classroom
teachers feel that they «own'the
assessment data about their pupils it can be the...