Preparing Your ELCC Assessments for NCATE Accreditation

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Preparing Your ELCC Assessments for NCATE
Accreditation

• Honor Fede
• Hood College, Frederick, MD

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NCATE Accreditation Process

• Unit Review
• School, College, or Department of Education
• Assessment System as a Whole many programs.
• Makes Accreditation Decision
• Program Review
• Specific Discipline Area (Math, Science, Ed Adm)
• Makes Specific Program Recognition Decisions
• Program Assessment System tied to Unit

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NCATE Unit Standard 1

• Candidates preparing to work in schools as other
  school personnel know the content of their
  fields, demonstrate professional knowledge,
  skills, and dispositions and apply them so that
  students learn. Assessments indicate that
  candidates meet professional, state, and
  institutional standards.

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Program Reviews Since 2004

• NCATE conducts program reviews through
  electronically submitted program reports using
  ELCC trained reviewers.
• ELCC designed assessments measure candidates
  content knowledge, professional skills, and their
  effects on student learning (provide an
  environment supportive to learning). (This aligns
  to NCATE Unit Standard 1)

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Assessment System Design

• Program Assessment System must be congruent with
  Unit Assessment System and Units Conceptual
  Framework.
• Tracking candidate progress.
• Data collection and reporting system.
• Remediation system.
• Generic Assessments aligned with SPA standards.

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Program Review Structure

• ELCC Team (2 member)
• One practitioner or professor w/practitioner
  experience
• One educational leadership faculty from
  university or college (preferably NCATE
  accredited)
• Responsible for initial review and makes program
  recommendations to Audit Committee
• ELCC Audit Committee
• Five member NPBEA board w/representation from
• Two professor groups (ncpea, ucea) two
  practitioner groups (ascd, nassp) and another
  NPBEA group (ccsso).
• Has oversight responsibility for ensuring
  fairness, unbiased reporting. Makes final program
  recognition decisions. May overturn team
  recommendations when necessary

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Program Review Decisions

• For Programs Not Previously Recognized
• National Recognition contingent on unit
  accreditation
• National Recognition with Conditions
• Must submit Response to Conditions Rept within 18
  months
• Have 2 opportunities within 18 months to attain
  national recognition. If unsuccessful status
  changes to Not Recognized
• Further Development Required
• Have 2 opportunities within 12-14 months to
  attain national recognition or conditional. If
  unsuccessful status changes to Not Recognized.

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Program Review Decisions

• For Programs Currently Recognized
• Continued National Recognition status
• Continued National Recognition with Conditions
• Must submit Response to Conditions Rept within 18
  months
• Have 2 opportunities within 18 months to attain
  national recognition. If unsuccessful status
  changes to Not Recognized
• National Recognition with Probation
• Submit Revsed Rept or New Rept within 12-14
  months.
• Have 2 opportunities within 12-14 months to
  attain national recognition or conditional. If
  unsuccessful status changes to Not Recognized.

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Conditional Report Decisions

• Conditions may include one or more of following
• Lack of alignment between assessments, scoring
  guides, and/or aggregated data tables
• Are poorly designed and do not show sufficient
  alignment to ELCC standard elements (e.g. 3.1,
  4.1)
• Insufficient amount of data
• Insufficient number of SPA standards are met
• Does not meet 80 pass rate on state exam

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Alignment to ELCC Standards

• Definition of Alignment
• The concepts addressed in the ELCC standard
  elements are visible in the assessment and
  scoring guide to the same degree of depth,
  breadth, and specificity.
• Does not mean the exact wording in the standard
  element needs to be contained in the description
  of the assessment or the scoring guide. However,
  same concepts must be there.
• Be sure to Align Assessment tools to ELCC
  Standard ELEMENTS (e.g., 3.1, 2.4, 1.5) where
  appropriate

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ELCC Assessments

• 3 Content Assessments to measure candidates
  content knowledge of specific ELCC standard
  elements (paper and pencil type activities).
• 3 Professional Skill Assessments to measure
  candidates application of knowledge and specific
  skill development (must show candidates
  performing tasks gaining leadership skills).
• 1 Assessment to gather outcome data that
  demonstrates Effects on Student Learning
  (different expectation from other SPAs). How do
  your candidates create supportive learning
  environments school/district systems level not at
  classroom level).

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Assessment Descriptions

• Assessment may include one activity from one
  course or many activities (e.g., grouped within a
  single assessment) from some courses across the
  program.
• Each activity is clearly delineated as it would
  be communicated to students NOT a brief
  description or summary of the required
  expectations for reviewers.
• Activity(ies) must show clear alignment to
  specific ELCC standard elements (e.g., 1.2 or
  3.2, or 5.1).

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New Content Assessment 2Course Grades

• Beginning Fall 2008 all SPAs will accept course
  grades as measure of content.
• Must be course(s) required for all candidates.
• Must include grade policy or definition of
  grades.
• Must be disaggregated by program level.
• Syllabi cannot be submitted.
• Submit chart listing course(s) and which SPA
  standards are addressed with brief description
• Must submit course grades means and ranges

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Format for Submitting Course Grades

• Part 1 Description and rationale for selection.
• Part 2 Matrix for showing alignment to standard
  elements (e.g. 1.2 or 3.3 etc.).
• Part 3 Grading policy and minimum expections.
• Part 4 Data table that shows grade distributions
  and mean scores (Attach A)
• Program advising sheet that shows transfers into
  program (if applicable).

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PRS System Spring 2008

• Section 1 Charts and graphs not permitted in
  any text section. Submitted separately.
• Section 1 each response no more than 4,000
  characters except question 2 8,000.
• Section V Word count limit is 12,000 characters
  no charts or tables.
• Entire Report - no more than 20 individual
  attachments and no larger than 2 MB.
• NCATE must be notified no less than one month in
  advance of submission.
• Section IV assessments submit as one file per
  assessment preferably 5 text pages each
• Attachments allowed in Section I IV only

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Amount of Data NCATE Requires

• Programs Submitted Data Required
• Spring 2008 One year
• Fall 2008 Two years
• Spring 2009 Two years
• Fall 2009 Three years

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Where to Find Help

• To find ELCC Standards and Program Report
  Templates
• http//www.ncate.org/institutions/programStandards
  .asp?ch90
• Guidelines and Procedures for the NCATE Web-Based
  Program Review System
• http//www.ncate.org/institutions/guidelinesProced
  ures.asp?ch90
• Electronic Reporting or Submission- Robin Marion
  Robin_at_ncate.org or 202-466-7496
• ELCC Standards or Assessment Design Honor Fede
  fedeh_at_principals.org. or 703-860-7207