Target Testing

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Target Testing

• The Twelve City Tour

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Agenda

• What is Target Testing?
• Why should schools use Target Tests?
• Who is involved in Target Testing?
• How are Target Tests created?
• When are the Target Tests given?
• How do schools access Target Test data?
• How do schools use Target Test data?
• How will the reliability and validity of Target
  Test be determined?

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Questions

• You may ask questions at any point in this
  presentation.
• Time has been planned at the end of this
  presentation for a questions and discussion.

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What is Target Testing?

• Target Testing is not a commercial product.
• Target Testing is a collaborative project
  undertaken by 13 of the Education Service
  Cooperatives.

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What is Target Testing

• The goal of Target Testing is to assist schools
  in gathering formative assessment data that will
  allow them to monitor and modify curriculum and
  instruction, resulting in increased student
  achievement.

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What is Target Testing?

• Literacy grades 3-11.
• Mathematics grades 3-8, Algebra I, Geometry and
  Algebra II
• Piloting K-2 Mathematics
• Piloting Science in grade 5, grade 7 and biology

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Why should schools Target Test?

• National research indicates that formative
  assessment is a key component necessary for
  school improvement
• Research done in Arkansas has also shown the
  importance of the role of formative assessment in
  helping schools increase student achievement.

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Why should schools Target Test?

• Curriculum Instructional Alignment
• Instructional Materials Strategies
• Pacing Guides (Curriculum Maps)
• Formative Assessment
• Monitor Modify

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Why should schools Target Test?

• Summative Assessments
• Grades
• Benchmark Tests
• End of Course Exams
• Formative Assessments
• Informal teacher
• Formal district or school

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Why should schools Target Test?

• Dont take the time to give these tests if you
  are not going to use the data!

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Who is involved in Target Testing?

• District Administrators
• Building Administrators
• Coaches/Leaders
• Teachers
• Students
• Parents

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Who is involved in Target Testing?

• District Administrators
• Make and/or support the decision to use formal
  formative assessment
• Make the necessary financial, human and physical
  resources available
• Study data across buildings and use the data in
  decision making

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Who is involved in Target Testing?

• Building Administrators
• Make and/or support the decision to use formal
  formative assessment
• Inform teachers about Target Testing philosophy
  and logistics
• Inform parents about Target Testing philosophy
  and logistics
• Make the necessary financial, human and physical
  resources available
• Study data across teachers and use the data in
  decision making

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Who is involved in Target Testing?

• Coaches/Leaders
• Support the decision to use formal formative
  assessment
• Assist as is appropriate in the logistics of
  Target Testing
• Facilitate scoring of open response and writing
  prompts
• Facilitate grade level data analysis
• Assist individual teachers with their data
  analysis

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Who is involved in Target Testing?

• Teachers
• Accept formative assessment as part of their
  professional development
• Explain Target Testing to Students
• Administer the Target Test as directed
• Score the open response questions and writing
  prompts
• Participate in grade level group study of the
  Target Test data
• Study their individual Target Test Data
• Monitor and Modify curriculum and instruction
  based on Target Test Data

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Who is involved in Target Testing?

• Students
• Understand the importance and role of Target
  Testing
• Do their best on the Target Test
• Reflect on their performance on the Target Test

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Who is involved in Target Testing?

• Parents
• Understand the importance and role of Target
  Testing
• Reflect with the teacher on their childs
  performance on the Target Test
• Support the teacher and child as the Target Test
  data is used to inform teaching and learning

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How are Target Test created?

• Testing Guidelines are developed
• Tests are created and validated based on the
  guidelines
• Tests are proofed, proofed and proofed

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How are Target Test created?

• Mathematics Tony Timms
• Literacy Lisa Baily

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How are Target Test created?

• Mathematics Guidelines are based on the
  curriculum that is used.
• Literacy Guidelines focus on the genre and
  writing types.

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When are Target Test given?

• Pre-Test
• 3 formative assessments
• Post-Test
• Block Scheduled Schools

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How do Schools Access Target Test data?

• Triand System
• Registration
• Roles

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How do schools use Target Test data?

• Pre-test
• Identify areas where students have strong
  prerequisite knowledge
• Use this to modify pacing guides
• Identify students that may need enrichment

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How do schools use Target Test data?

• Formative Assessments
• What have I succeed in teaching?
• What are the things that my students dont yet
  know?
• What are the misconceptions my students have?
• What are the areas for which I need to provide
  differentiated instruction?
• Who are the students with performances that are
  surprising?

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How do schools use Target Test data?

• Post-Test
• Summer Programs
• Students gains
• Curriculum Audit
• Professional Development Planning

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How will the reliability and validity of Target
Testing be determined?

• Validity
• Experts verify that each question measures what
  it claims to measure.
• Reliability
• Extensive Reliability Studies are currently being
  undertaken at both school and state levels

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Discussion and Additional Questions

• Constructive criticism is always welcome and
  accepted.
• Many minds are better than one or a few.
• Those who do not question do not learn.

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