Yale scoring clinic introduction 2014
- 1. Jennifer Evans Assistant Director ELA St. Clair County RESA Evans.jennifer@sccresa.org http://www.protopage.com/evans.jennifer#Untitled/Home
- 2. Agenda Anchor Papers Overview Getting to know your anchor set Assessment Fidelity WriteWell© Pre and Post Assessments How do you administer the assessment? Determine Protocol Scoring Fidelity How do you score the assessment? Scoring Protocol Practice
- 4. “Assigning writing is easy. Teaching writing is really hard.” “We need to teach our students to read like writers and write like readers.” Kelly Gallagher, Author and Teacher http://www.kellygallagher.org/index.html
- 5. What is the WriteWell© Curriculum? It is a carefully sequenced, coherent K-12 writing curriculum that follows a Writing Workshop format designed to: Continually improve meet the needs of all students increase writing proficiency at every grade use effective, researched based instructional practices
- 6. Navigating the Website WriteWell© http://www.sccresa.org/toolsforschools/curriculumtool s/writewell/ Select logo Enter school log in and password: Log in: Password:
- 11. Anchor Papers
- 13. 5th Grade Score 4 Sample 1
- 17. Discuss 3rd Grade Example Handout
- 18. WriteWell© Pre and Post Assessments: Performance Tasks Modeled after Smarter Balance Performance Tasks 2-3 days Scored with Informational/ Explanatory Rubric Multiple Texts
- 21. “There is now conclusive, compelling research stating that acting as a Professional Learning Community (PLC) is the most powerful and effective process to systemically change school culture and improve student learning.” - Sharon Kramer, PLC Conference: Connecting the Dots: From ELA Standards to Formative Assessment to Interventions and Extensions, 2014
- 22. The Big Ideas of a PLC We accept learning as the fundamental purpose of our school and therefore are willing to examine all practices and their impact on learning. We are committed to working together to achieve our collective purpose. We cultivate a collaborative culture through the development of high-performing teams. We assess our effectiveness on the basis of results rather than intentions. We seek relevant data and information and use that information to promote continuous improvement.
- 23. Selection of Articles / Videos Get with your grade level Watch all of the videos Read all of the articles Decide as a group what videos/articles you will use for the pre-test and the post-test
- 27. Develop Answer Key for Videos Work with your grade level team to determine what are key points you want your students to identify in the videos. Work together to fill in the Note-Taking Matrix for the Videos so every teacher in the grade level is looking for the same key information. Determine protocol for how you will instruct this portion of the assessment (i.e. Will you give examples or will it be all student generated? Are you explicitly modeling how to fill in the matrix? Are you watching videos whole class or are students watching them independently at their own pace? ) Be sure to record assessment decisions made on the WriteWell© Scoring Clinic Notes page to ensure assessment fidelity when giving the assessment.
- 30. Develop Answer Key for Articles Work with your grade level team to determine what are key points you want your students to identify in the articles. Work together to fill in the Note-Taking Matrix for the Articles so every teacher in the grade level is looking for the same key information. Determine if the grade level will write and score the 3 focus questions optional part of the assessment. Determine protocol for how you will instruct this portion of the assessment (i.e. Will you give examples or will it be all student generated? Are you explicitly modeling how to fill in the matrix? Are you reading articles whole class or are students reading them independently at their own pace? ) Be sure to record assessment decisions made on the WriteWell© Scoring Clinic Notes page to ensure assessment fidelity when giving the assessment.
- 32. Scoring Fidelity
- 34. Key Points Looking at the Informational/Explanatory Rubric, highlight key points for a 4 score Highlight differences for a 3 score Highlight differences for a 2 score Highlight differences for a 1 score Determine protocol for a 0 score
- 36. Scoring Protocol Look at the anchor set of papers for your grade level Discuss with your team key points Determine a protocol for how your team will score papers with fidelity
- 37. Scoring Practice Working with your grade level, begin scoring practice student papers. Each paper should be scored by at least 2 teachers. Discrepant scores need to be discussed and protocol determined
- 38. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #5: Assign and assess writing does not teach students the knowledge and skills needed to become better writers WriteWell is designed around the format of Writer’s Workshop where teachers teach students minilessons as well as teach them to read like writers and write like readers. Putting up a prompt for the students to write about is not teaching writing.
- #6: It is an online product that is revised and improved as needed throughout the year and more extensively each summer, relying on classroom teachers to make the revisions. Assessments are meant to show growth based on the minilesson instruction. This must take place.
- #7: Participants spend some time online exploring the units for their grade level
- #11: Show both the assessments and where to find the anchor sets
- #20: Need to be schoolwide / districtwide consenses as to what articles/videos will be used