Memphis City Schools Formative Assessment System

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Memphis City Schools Formative Assessment System

• Campus Assessment Coordinator Training August 22,
  2006

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• AssessmentMaster assessments are
• Formative assessments
• Summative assessments
• End-of-course assessments
• Norm-referenced assessments

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AssessmentMaster Lets You...

• Assess students with formative assessments during
  the school year
• Find out what students know and dont know
• Identify students who most need instruction and
  intervention
• Plan instruction accordingly

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What Research Tells Us

• Using formative assessment data to guide
  instruction yields significant gains for students
• Simply taking assessments doesnt accelerate
  learningteachers must act on the data

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• During the school year 2006-2007, there will be
• 1 assessment event
• 2 assessment events
• 3 assessment events
• 4 assessment events

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2006-2007

• Grades 2-8 Reading, Language Arts, and Math
• High School Algebra I, Biology I, and English II
  (Language Arts and Reading)
• 1st Event September 25-29 (Cumulative)
• 2nd Event November 13-17
• 3rd Event January 16-19
• 4th Event March 5-9 (Cumulative)
• (page 3 of CAC Manual)

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Cumulative Assessments

• Event 1 and 4 are cumulative
• Longer assessments
• Require more than one class period

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• For the 1st event, there will not be any
  pre-slugged scan cards.
• New student information system
• Changes in class enrollment

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• During the school year 2006-2007, there will be
• 1 writing event
• 2 writing events
• 3 writing events
• 4 writing events

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2006-2007

• Two (2) Writing Assessments for
• Grades 5, 8, and 11
• Event 1 October 11
• Event 2 January 10
• (page 3 of CAC Manual)

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• Who has the responsibility of facilitating the
  administration of the AssessmentMaster
  assessments?
• Principal
• Teachers
• Campus Assessment Coordinators
• Technology Coordinators

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Successful Implementation Depends on a Team
Effort

• Administrator
• Campus Assessment Coordinator
• School Technology Staff
• Instructional Facilitators
• Teachers

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School Administrators pg 4

• Designate and empower a Campus Assessment
  Coordinator
• Work with CAC in scheduling dates for
  administering assessments within the district
  assessment events
• Work with CAC in determining procedures (who will
  do the scanning, etc.)
• Monitor scoring status
• Review reports with teachers
• Work with teachers in making instructional
  changes and in providing needed resources

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Campus Assessment Coordinator Responsibilities
pg 5

• Distribute test booklets, scan cards, and extra
  blank scan cards to teachers
• Develop organized procedure for collecting and
  scoring scan cards
• Monitor scoring status
• Review reports with principal/teachers
• Work with principal/instructional facilitators in
  sharing data and planning instruction

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Teacher Responsibilities pg 6

• Understand the purpose of formative assessments
• Verify that there are enough copies of test
  booklets and scan cards
• Make sure every student has 2 pencils
• Distribute pre-slugged scan cards (beginning with
  2nd assessment)
• Read the pretest instructions during
  administration of assessment

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Teacher Responsibilities

• Administer the assessments according to schedule
• Remove posters, bulletin board displays, etc.,
  that will help with answers
• Monitor testing to ensure students are following
  pretest instructions
• Gather assessments and scan cards after students
  are finished
• Inspect cards for extraneous marks and clean
  erasures
• Score assessments unless CAC is going to do
  this

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• 5. Pretest Instructions for Memphis City
• Schools can be found
• a. In the back of the CAC Manual
• b. On the TLA website
• c. Both A and B
• d. Neither A nor B

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• TLA Website
• Log in to Renaissance Place
• Documents and available
• PowerPoints for training
• Telephone number for help and
• district ID number
• Scanner information

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How Assessments Will Be Assigned

• Elementary Schools Homerooms will be assigned
  Language Arts, Reading, and Math
• High Schools by course including Algebra IA and
  IB
• Middle Schools Math to math/pre-algebra
  classes language arts to language arts classes
  reading to ?????

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Form to be emailed to Debbie

• ddhux_at_renlearn.com

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Assigning Process

• Week of Event
• Shipment of materials (1 week prior to event)
• Printing of test booklets and scan cards (3 weeks
  prior to event 2 week process)
• Assigning assessments (4 weeks prior to event)

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• 6. In what section of AssessmentMaster can a
  CAC or teacher go to find out if all students
  have been assigned the appropriate assessments?
• Resource section
• Assessments section
• Assignment Book section
• Assessment Events section

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• 7. What symbol indicates that an assessment has
  been assigned to a student?
• Double green arrows
• Checkmark
• Diamond
• Computer

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• 8. When a CAC tries to assign an assessment to a
  student in the Assignment Book, and the computer
  indicates that the Student currently has no
  assignments, the teacher should use
• The Teacher Resource section
• The Assessments section
• The Magic Page
• All of the above

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• 9. Every assessment assigned to a student has a
  unique identification number that must be bubbled
  onto a scan card for scoring. This number is
  referred to as a(n)
• Assignment number
• Form number
• Score number
• Social Security number

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• 10. To find a students form number, the CAC or
  teacher can
• Click View/Print Materials under Activities
  in the Assignment Book
• Click on the short name of the assessment in the
  Assignment Book and then click Print Materials
• Click on score or date to the right of the
  double green arrows
• All of the above

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• 11. During and after the assessment event week,
  the CAC should be monitoring to make sure that
  all assessments are being scored. To do this, the
  CAC will need to use which link under the
  AssessmentMaster tab to get to the Scoring
  Status?
• Assessment Event
• Assessments
• Assignment Book
• Student History Search

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• 12. The Scoring Status Report will help the CAC
  determine which students have not had their
  assessments scored.
• (True or False)

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What Research Tells Us

• Using formative assessment data to guide
  instruction yields significant gains for students
• Simply taking assessments doesnt accelerate
  learningteachers must act on the data

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• 13. The key reports that teachers should review
  after each assessment event are the Item Analysis
  Report, the Standards Advisory Report, and the
  TOPS Reports.
• (True or False)

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• 14. The Summary Report, which provides a bar
  graph representing the average correct on each
  standard included in the assessment, is a useful
  report for principals to review the overall
  performance of the school.
• (True or False)

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• 15. The Teacher Report will help the CAC
  determine
• Which of the teachers classes have assessments
  that have not been scored
• Which assessments have been assigned to the
  teacher
• The teachers usernames, classes, and class
  position
• All of the above

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• 16. In order to change a teachers password, the
  CAC should
• Select Personnel, Students, and Parents under
  the Renaissance Place tab.
• Select Assignment Book under the
  AssessmentMaster tab
• Both A and B
• Neither A nor B

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CAC Passwords

• User Name cac2238
• (cac locator code number for school)
• Password Welcome1
• After logging in the first time, CAC will be
  prompted to change the password.

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• 17. To navigate through Renaissance
• Place programs like AssessmentMaster,
• the user should
• Always use the Internet browser back button
• Use the links on the yellow task bar and blue
  links on the left side of the screen
• Both A and B
• Neither A nor B

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• 18. Todays training has been beneficial for my
  understanding of MCS Formative Assessment System
  and AssessmentMaster?
• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree

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• 19. I feel comfortable using the AssessmentMaster
  program.
• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree

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• 20. I understand how Renaissance Place works with
  MCS student information system (Chancery) in
  maintaining data on the schools, personnel, and
  students.
• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree