ASSESSMENTS DRIVE INSTRUCTION

Audience: Junior High Teachers and Mentor

Jennifer Saravia
April 13, 2020
 PRESENTATION OBJECTIVE
➤ To allow teachers to develop a
plan on how to use
assessments to inform
instruction.

STANDARDS ADDRESSED
➤ ISTE Standard 1 Learner: 1a
➤ ISTE Standard 6 Facilitator: 6a
➤ ISTE Standard 7 Analyst: 7c
➤ NBPTS Proposition 1
➤ NBPTS Proposition 3
➤ NBPTS Proposition 5
EDUCATIONAL HOOK
➤ There are so many assessments that can enhance our
teaching. What assessments to you use in your classroom
and why?
➤ Be prepared to share!
TYPES OF ASSESSMENTS

➤ IOWA
➤ STAR Math
➤ STAR Reading
➤ MAP Testing
HOW WE ARE CURRENTLY USING DATA
➤ Teachers send home reports
➤ Reports shared during 1st and 3rd quarter Parent Teacher
Conferences
➤ 5th Grade uses data to separate students into learning groups
➤ 7th-8th Grade uses data to determine reading levels.
➤ Any others? Please share!
INFORMAL VS FORMAL
➤ Informal
➤ Non-Standardized
➤ No Scores
➤ No comparing to other students
➤ Observing and interviewing
➤ Normal Classroom environment

Source: www.scholastic.com/teachers
INFORMAL VS FORMAL
➤ Formal
➤ Standardized Testing
➤ Scores are considered
➤ Scores are compared
➤ Summative tests

Source: www.scholastic.com/teachers
NEW SCHOOL WIDE ASSESSMENT: MAP TESTING
➤ “MAP Growth measures what students know and informs
what they’re ready to learn next” (www.NWEA.org)
➤ Areas of Testing
➤ Math
➤ Reading
➤ Science

➤ Improvements?
UNDERSTAND THE ASSESSMENT
➤ Use as a tool to support students learning.
➤ MAP Testing does not take the place of all assessments.
➤ Students do not take the same exact test
➤ Scores
➤ RIT Scores
➤ Represent a continuous scale of learning. It is not
evaluative, but tells us where a child is at a given point in
time.
➤ How to use RIT scores
➤ Helps to measure individual student’s progress over time.
UNDERSTAND THE ASSESSMENT
➤ Expected Growth
➤ All students are
expected to show
growth.
➤ Growth rates are
based on national
norms
➤ Lower grades tend
to show a greater
increase in RIT
scores
 HOW CAN WE USE MAP DATA IN OUR SCHOOL?
➤ Differentiate Instruction
➤ Evaluate program effectiveness
➤ Predict college readiness
➤ Set academic goals
➤ Inform parents on student progress
TYPES OF REPORTS TO USE IN THE CLASSROOM
➤ Class Report
➤ Student Profile/Student Progress
➤ Learning Continuum
➤ Class Breakdown by RIT, Goal, or Projected Proficiency
➤ Achievement Status and Growth Summary with Quadrant
Chart
➤ Student Goal Setting Worksheet
NOW YOU TRY!
➤ Use your Chromebook to
create a report for your Sample
class: Achievement
Status and Growth
Summary with
Quadrant Chart

➤ Be ready to share how

you plan on using this
report in your classroom.
SHARING GOALS AND PROGRESS WITH PARENTS
➤ Teacher can create goals after each testing period.
➤ Goal can be established with student input
➤ Family Report
➤ What is this report?

➤ What is MAP Growth?

➤ Why is my child taking MAP Growth?

➤ What do achievement and growth mean?

➤ What is a RIT score?

➤ Subject scores

➤ How can I use this information to help my child?

➤ Where can I get more information?

NOW YOU TRY!
➤ Use your Chromebook to create
a Family Report.

➤ Be ready to share your

thoughts and concerns about
using this report.
➤ Will it work for your classroom
families?
➤ How will you use these in
Parent Teacher Conferences?
CULMINATING QUESTIONS
➤ Research shows that using
assessments to drive or
instruction can yield
positive results in student
learning. What area of
your teaching/instruction
do you feel will benefit the
most? Why?
➤ Which of the reports do
you feel will be the most
beneficial to your
teaching? Why?