Purposes of Assessment:
Building Your Assessment Plan
Cadre 8 Initial Training
10/9/12
Where We’ve Been
• Helped to identify
your standards of
practice for your core
instruction.
Where We’re Going
• We are now going to
help you to
understand the
purposes of
assessment.
Targets
1. Team members will have a clear
understanding of the four purposes of
assessment
1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Screening (formative)
Progress Monitoring (formative)
Diagnostic (formative)
Outcome (summative)
District Assessment Plan by the end of
day 2
Develop an Assessment Plan
Purpose
Screening
Progress
Monitoring
Diagnostic
Outcome
Assessment
Big Idea(s)
Tested
Who is
Tested
Frequency
Who
Administers
/Types of
Reporting
What assessments are you
currently using in your district?
• Take 5 minutes and in your district teams
brainstorm a list of all the different
assessments your district is currently using
• Save the list-we will be revisiting it
periodically throughout the presentation
Assessment Plan
Purpose
Screening
Progress
Monitoring
Diagnostic
Outcome
Assessment
Big Idea(s)
Tested
Who is
Tested
Frequency
Who
Administers
/Types of
Reporting
Screening Targets
• Build conceptual understanding about
universal screeners
– To develop standards of practice for universal
screening
• Determine professional development
needs for universal screening
Universal Screening:
Standards of Practice
Universal Screening
“The Bang for the Buck”
Universal Screening Tools
Brief & Easy
Frequent
Sensitive to
growth
Indicator of
overall health
Equivalent
forms!!!
A universal screener should over-identify students
who might need something more!
What are “better” skills to
screen?
Basic Skills
– Finite
• Phonemic
awareness
• Decoding/phonics
• Fluency
Comprehensive Skills
– Not finite
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
What are some commonly used screening
tools?
Reading
AIMSWEB
Reading CBM, Maze
DIBELS NEXT
FSF, PSF, NWF, ORF, Daze
easyCBM
PSF, LSF, WRF, PRF, MC Reading Comp, Vocab
Math
AIMSWEB
M – Computation, M – Concepts & Applications, CBM –
Early Numeracy
easyCBM
Numbers & Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Algebra
Written Language
Writing – CBM (Total Words Written, Correct Writing Sequences, Words
Spelled Correctly)
What are NOT good screening tools?
Reading
•Quick Phonics
Assessment
•Report Cards
•OAKS
•DRA
•Running Records
•QRI
•Fountas & Pinnell
•Reading curriculum
weekly or monthly tests or
fluency passages
Math
Curriculum weekly tests
Teacher created math probes*
OAKS
Written Language
Writing rubrics*
OAKS
* when not administered and scored in a standardized and reliable way, or checked for
consistency of multiple probes
Why give Universal Screeners?
1. To determine the health of the core
• Make instructional changes to improve
core instruction
2. To identify students who need
additional instructional support
– Are staff using the screening data for BOTH
these reasons?
1) Are staff using screening data
to determine the health of the core?
School-wide (100%) grade level meetings
– Fall, winter, spring (following screening)
Outcome: Increase overall achievement
– what to teach
– how to teach
Strong core instruction
Weak Core Instruction
Setting Criteria: Schoolwide
Meetings
Do you have criteria around how to know if
your core instruction is effective?
2) Are staff using screening data to
identify students who need interventions?
– How are these decisions made?
– Are they unbiased?
Do you have criteria to determine which
students need interventions?
Setting Criteria: Identifying
Students for Interventions
What data do you use?
How many students can be supported?
What materials do you have?
How many staff have been trained on the
interventions?
Assessments in TTSD
Universal Screeners
Additional assessments
• Elementary
• Reading
• Elementary
– DIBELS Next
• Math
– AIMSweb
• Missing Number (K-1)
• Calculations (2-5)
Middle School
• Reading
– AIMSweb (Maze)
– Treasures Placement Test
– OAKS
• Secondary
– OAKS
Using screening data to identify
students for interventions
CBM Screening
Assessment
Core Program
Assessment
OAKS
How many students can you
support?
20%
30%
20%
50%
Questions to Think About: Screeners
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Who will administer the screeners?
Who will train the screeners?
Who will prepare materials?
Who will organize materials at the school?
Where will the data go?
Who will organize the data and present it to
teaching teams?
• How will fidelity of administration be checked?
Troubleshooting: Screeners
Is the system sustainable over time?
• Do staff trust and use the data?
• “it’s all about the numbers”
• “it will be used to evaluate my instruction”
• How will you communicate the decisions
that you have made about Universal
Screeners in your district?
• How will you monitor the decisions you
have made?
Screening
Purpose
Screening
Progress
Monitoring
Diagnostic
Outcome
Assessment
Big Idea(s)
Tested
Who is
Tested
Frequency
Who
Administers
/Types of
Reporting
Assessment Plan
Purpose
Screening
Progress
Monitoring
Diagnostic
Outcome
Assessment
Big Idea(s)
Tested
Who is
Tested
Frequency
Who
Administers
/Types of
Reporting
Progress Monitoring Tools
Brief &
Easy
Sensitive
to growth
“Indicator”
Frequent
Equivalent
forms!!!
What are some commonly used progress
monitoring tools?
Reading
AIMSWEB
Reading CBM, Maze
DIBELS NEXT
FSF, PSF, NWF, ORF, Daze
easyCBM
PSF, LSF, WRF, PRF, MC Reading Comp, Vocab
Math
AIMSWEB
M – Computation, M – Concepts & Applications, CBM –
Early Numeracy
easyCBM
Numbers & Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Algebra
Written Language
Writing – CBM (Total Words Written, Correct Writing Sequences, Words
Spelled Correctly)
What are NOT good progress monitoring
tools?
Reading
•Phonic Screeners
•Report Cards
•OAKS
•DRA
•Running Records
•Reading curriculum
weekly or monthly tests
or fluency passages
Math
Curriculum weekly tests
OAKS
Teacher created math probes*
Written Language
Writing rubrics*
OAKS
* when not administered and scored in a standardized and reliable way, or checked for
consistency of multiple probes
Using the Right Tool
The progress monitoring tool should match
the skills being taught.
Additional Progress Monitoring Tools
For more info and a review of available
tools, visit www.rti4success.org
(Progress Monitoring Tools Chart)
What information does it give you?
Reading Curriculum Fluency
Passages/Weekly Tests
VS.
Progress Monitoring Tools
(CBM)
What information does it give you?
Reading Curriculum Fluency
Passages/Weekly Tests
VS.
Progress Monitoring Tools
(CBM)
What information does it give you?
Reading Curriculum Fluency
Passages/Weekly Tests
VS.
Progress Monitoring Tools
(CBM)
Assessment Plan
Purpose
Screening
Progress
Monitoring
Diagnostic
Outcome
Assessment
Big Idea(s)
Tested
Who is
Tested
Frequency
Who
Administers
/Types of
Reporting
Diagnostic
Answer the question…
Why?
Diagnostic assessments may
include:
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Quick Phonics Screener
Survey Level Assessments
Error Analysis or Running Records
Any formal or informal assessment that
answers the question:
– Why is the student having a problem?
Diagnostic Assessment Questions
“Why is the student not performing at the
expected level?”
“What is the student’s instructional need?”
We do not use diagnostic data…
…for all students
…to monitor progress towards a long-term goal
…to compare students to each other
Assessment Plan
Purpose
Screening
Progress
Monitoring
Diagnostic
Outcome
Assessment
Big Idea(s)
Tested
Who is
Tested
Frequency
Who
Administers
/Types of
Reporting
Why use outcome measures?
• To determine how well students are doing
at the end of an instructional time period
(lesson, unit, year)
Why use outcome measures?
• To determine if a goal was met
Examples of Outcome Measures
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OAKS
End of Unit/Program Assessments
Stanford Achievement Test
DIBELS
EasyCBM
AIMSweb
Final Questions/Comments
Where We’ve Been
• Helped to develop
your understanding
or the purposes of
assessment.
Where We’re Going
• We are now going to
develop your
understanding about
how to use data to
evaluate and make
adjustments to core
instruction.
Evaluation
• Please complete the
evaluation for this
presentation
• Please write down
some things you
really want to
remember on the
“Tools and Take Away”
Sheet