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It’s Not Just Apples to Apples

Creating Actionable Pre-Assessments

Online Learning Experience

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  • Build shared understanding of “mirrored” and “aligned” assessments
  • Increase awareness of resources and strategies for developing quality pre-assessments
  • Provide an opportunity to receive distance support from EdEx for questions and feedback

OBJECTIVES FOR THE DAY

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Flow of Step 1: Plan and Prepare

  • Choose Priority standards
    • Deconstruct to student-friendly learning targets
      • Select/revise a post-assessment
        • Use resources & materials to decide which lessons match, what to skip/skim, what needs to be supplemented
            • Select additional strategies for Core
              • Create pre-assessment
                • Create scoring agreements
                  • Administer pre-assessment & score

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Quality Pre-Assessment

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Back Then...

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Think about this...

Why would we use a different pre- and post-assessment?

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Can you relate?

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What’s the difference?

“Apples to Apples”

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“Apples to Oranges”

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“Mirrored”

“Aligned”

Assesses growth over time

Assesses the TEACHER

Common uses: SLGs, in defense of poor teaching

Assesses where the student is in relationship to the standard, locates missing prerequisites

Assesses the STUDENT

Common uses: CFAs, data teams, expedites learning!

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It’s NOT exactly Apples to Oranges

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Think of it as a grey scale!

Previous Grade

Current Grade PRE

Current Grade POST

Next Grade

Tells us what is missing, which holes need filling and WHO is ready!

Tells us if holes were filled, who is proficient and who is ready for more!

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If we do pre-assessment

correctly then...

Not everyone scores a “zero” on the pre! This means that different learning needs are identified and can be addressed for ALL students.

Student A

Student B

Evaluation of student achievement of course learning objectives

Pre-test score

Pre-test score

Post-test score

Post-test score

progress as a result of course instruction

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What does that really look like?

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Flow of Step 1: Plan and Prepare

  • Choose Priority standards
    • Deconstruct to student-friendly learning targets
      • Select/revise a post-assessment
        • Use resources & materials to decide which lessons match, what to skip/skim, what needs to be supplemented
            • Select additional strategies for Core
              • Create pre-assessment
                • Create scoring agreements
                  • Administer pre-assessment & score

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This Takes a Long Time...

How can we speed this up for our team?

Where can we find these items and tasks?

...Or more importantly, why doesn’t our district make them for us?!

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The Grey Scale!

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Previous Grade

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Current Grade PRE

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Current Grade Post

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Next Grade

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Average School

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Previous Grade

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Current Grade PRE

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Current Grade Post

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Next Grade

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High Achieving School

Low Achieving School

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Previous Grade

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Current Grade PRE

Current Grade Post

Next Grade

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Current Unit Post-Assessment

Previous Unit Materials

Previous Grade Level Post-Assessments

Ask your colleagues!

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Bonus: It will take mere seconds to share if they named docs by standard!

Hold on to this idea. It’s not a direct copy/paste!

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Using the post as a guide can...

  • Increase alignment to standards
  • Increase teacher clarity about standards
  • Increase rigor in teaching and learning
  • Increase quality of tasks/questions asked in class and on the pre-assessment
  • Support the creation of aligned assessments
  • Aligned assessments = increase in the quality of education for ALL students
  • Save time!

  • Cause “teaching THE test” = a poor quality of education
  • Cause “teaching THE test” = invalidating results
  • Offer an unintended endorsement of mirrored assessments

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Be Great!

Be Terrible!

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Using the Post as a Guide for Clarity

Oh, that’s what it means!!!!

If they have to do… Then we would have to teach them xyz!

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Next Steps

  • Schedule a time to create a pre-assessment for an upcoming with your team.
  • Submit your pre-assessment for feedback.
  • After receiving feedback, made the needed adjustments and continue to create other unit pre-assessments.
  • Reach out to an EdEx coach if you need support.

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Resources

Please find this and other presentations

@ www.educationalexcellence.org

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