Assessment
Awareness
In
this 1-day session, participants are surveyed to identify
their present levels of assessment knowledge. Then, the
session focuses on key research-based assessment strategies
that target improved student achievement. These include
providing meaningful formative feedback to students, involving
them in establishing the criteria for their work, and improving
the quality of the tasks/assignments students are asked
to do.
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Building
Educator Capacity in Assessment (Session I )
In this 3-day session, participants will gain an overview
of research-based "best practices" demonstrated
by quality classroom assessment programs. This training
option elucidates: educator issues and concerns about high
stakes testing, promotion of a reflective learning culture,
practices that influence assessment, quality assignments
for students, practices that involve students in their learning,
and good communication of high expectations.
Building
Educator Capacity in Assessment (Session II)
This
4-day training is an expanded format of Session I, which
includes more participant activities and an increased focus
on practical classroom applications of the information presented.
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Identifying
Essential Skills and Concepts
This
2-day session focuses on helping content or discipline teams
identify essential skills and concepts. Participants review
sample essential skills and concepts identified by other
schools or districts content teams. Activities include examining
national and/or state standards and refining these into
particular strands or learning targets that all students
within the discipline should know and be able to do.
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Achieving
Student Success Through Quality Tasks
In
this 1-day session, participants examine and assess sample
student assignments individually. Then in groups, they identify
quality criteria for assignments that support a standards-based
curriculum. Teamwork and collaboration among teachers is
emphasized as participants work together to revise a sample
assignment. A rubric for assessing assignments and a cover
sheet for submitting assignments for review by peers is
provided.
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Supporting
Learning with Clear Targets Matched to Appropriate Assessments
In
this 1-day session, participants are introduced to different
types of learning targets. Participants are then guided
through an "unpacking the standard" activity (using
a national or state standard) to gain skills in identifying
learning targets embedded in curriculum standards. Finally,
diverse types of assessment methods are defined and later
paired with particular learning targets. During this activity,
participants learn to match learning targets with appropriate
assessment methods.
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Establishing
and Communicating Assessment Criteria I
The
primary focus of this 2-day training session is to learn
how to create good scoring guides/ rubrics. During this
session, participants construct a rubric and then use it
to judge student performances on oral presentations. Methods
used to create shared performance criteria within the school
or district curriculum (vertically and horizontally) are
introduced to participants, as is inter-rater reliability.
Establishing
and Communicating Assessment Criteria II
In
this 1-day extension of the workshop, participants focus
on increasing inter-rater reliability and on creating shared
performance criteria in schools/districts. Teams work together
to create content-specific rubrics that are appropriate
to different grade levels and are matched to quality criteria
for performance.
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