Understanding Changes to
Assessments for APPR Purposes
Theresa L. Gray, Coordinator
Integrated Education Services (IES)
Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES
1% Instructional Time
Effective March 2, 2014, any Annual Professional
Performance Review (APPR) plan submitted to the
Commissioner for approval for use in the 2014-15
school year and thereafter must include a signed
certification by the superintendent, district
superintendent or chancellor attesting that no more
than one percent of total instruction time in each
classroom or program of the district or BOCES is
spent taking any locally determined traditional
standardized third party assessment or traditional
standardized district, regional, or BOCES-developed
assessment for APPR purposes.
1% Instructional Time
Effective March 2, 2014, any Annual Professional Performance
Review (APPR) plan submitted to the Commissioner for approval for use in
the 2014-15 school year and thereafter must include a
signed certification by the superintendent, district superintendent or
chancellor attesting that no
more than one percent of total
instruction time in each classroom or program of the district or
BOCES is spent taking any locally determined
traditional standardized third party assessment or
traditional standardized district, regional, or
BOCES-developed assessment for APPR purposes.
What is a “Standardized Assessment?”
• Traditional standardized assessments are defined by NYSED
for the purposes of this regulation as a systematic method of
gathering information from objectively scored items that
allow the test taker to select one or more of the given options
or choices as their response.
• Examples include multiple-choice, true-false, and matching
items.
• NYSED defines this term to focus specifically on those
assessments that require the student (and not the
examiner/assessor) to directly use a "bubble" answer sheet.
But it does NOT include….
Formative assessment is a process used by
teachers and students during instruction that
provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching
and learning to improve students’ achievement
of intended instructional outcomes.
But it does NOT include…
Diagnostic assessments are evidence-gathering
procedures that provide a sufficiently clear
indication regarding which targeted subskills or
bodies of enabling knowledge a student
possesses or does not possess — thereby
supplying the information needed by teachers
when they decide how to most appropriately
design or modify instructional activities.
But it does NOT include…
Performance Assessments
• Science experiments
• Extended responses/essays
• Research papers
But it does NOT include…
• State Assessments!
How do I determine 1% of
instructional time?
Need to determine:
Maximum amount of time for assessment (not
including any mandated time extensions)
Number of schools days x Minutes of daily instruction
Turn and Talk
• Implications?
• Concerns?
• Questions?
Removal of Traditional Standardized
Testing in K-2
Effective March 2, 2014, no APPR plan shall be
approved by the Commissioner for use in the
2014-15 school year or thereafter that provides
for the administration of traditional
standardized third party or vendor assessments
to students in kindergarten through grade two.
Turn and Talk
• Implications?
• Concerns?
• Questions?
Grades 6-8 Social Studies/Science
Effective February 11, 2014, for the State Growth or
Other Comparable Measures subcomponent, sixth
through eighth grade social studies and sixth through
seventh grade science have been removed from the
definition of core subject areas. Core subject are
as are now defined as eighth grade science and high
school courses in English language arts, mathematics,
science, and social studies that lead to a Regents
examination in the 2010-11 school year, or a State
assessment in the 2012-13 school year or thereafter.
So What?
May now utilize a
school-wide, group, or team measure
based on
one or more State or Regents assessments
in
sixth through eight social studies and/or sixth
through seventh science
Turn and Talk
• Implications?
• Concerns?
• Questions?