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Balanced Assessments

Brian Rose

El5723-m4

Resource and Fiscal Management

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Overview

  • Review of Continuous Work Improvement Plan
  • Identified Instructional Improvement Target: Balanced Assessment
  • Why?
  • What?
  • Resources available
  • Discussion

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Instructional Improvement Target: Balanced Assessments Why?

If schools plan to use standardised tests, they should ensure that the use and purpose of norm-referenced tests is clearly set out within an agreed whole-school policy on assessment, recording and reporting (ARR). (Cymru, 2008)

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Factors to Consider:

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  • Below average math scores
  • Low reading scores
  • Supports for behavioral health team
  • 95% attendance rate

Questions to Consider:

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Who will be Impacted?

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What will be the benefits?

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What resources are needed?

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Research Based Intervention: Accelerated Reader

Accelerated Reader

Intervention Description: Accelerated Reader™ is a computerized supplementary reading program that provides guided reading instruction to students in grades K–12. It aims to improve students’ reading skills through reading practice and by providing frequent feedback on students’ progress to teachers. (WWC, 2016)

Website Link: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/12

Research that supports the intervention: The WWC considers the extent of evidence for Accelerated Reader™ on the reading achievement of beginning readers to be small for two student outcome domains—comprehension and reading fluency. (WWC Intervention Report, 2016)

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Current budget/resources and needs for achieving the instructional improvement target

Fiscal Budget- $0.00. *We do plan to look into grant opportunities but do not have any at this time.

Other resources-

  • Professional Development (PD) days.
  • Nationally Board certified teacher to co-lead the PD days.

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Summary of faculty input.

  • Teachers are open to varying instruction over the course of the school year.
  • Teachers want input into the types of assessment and when to use them
  • Teachers have agreed to use consistent assessment plans through the entire grade level
  • There is concern that teachers will be micromanaged and lose creative control

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