Purpose, TOA, Use: Assess more complex and applied learning (monitor) model and encourage instruction (drive).Means: Aligned, grade-level only (?), matrix-sampled (?), high school (?), SWD (?), ELL (?) Gong – USED Common Assessment RFP Input Mtg – 11/17/09.Outcome: Valid reports of performance related to the designated standards.Purpose, TOA, Use: Promote equity through holding students and schools to common opportunity-to-learn (content standards) and minimal performance standards.Means: Same content standards, same test specifications, same performance standards, single assessment across states, same administration procedures, strong equating across years Gong – USED Common Assessment RFP Input Mtg – 11/17/09.Outcome: Statistically robust reports of performance on common metric with no “wiggle room” – stronger than current NAEP mapping studies.Purpose, TOA, Use: Hold students, schools, LEAs, and states accountable to a common performance standard by triggering sanctions.Measure student performance for teacher/administrator evaluation Gong – USED Common Assessment RFP Input Mtg – 11/17/09.Specify the means an outcome should be done if USED really wants a specific means Gong – USED Common Assessment RFP Input Mtg – 11/17/09.Specify what is wanted as an deliverable and the set parameters for responders’ creative proposals (e.g., time schedule).USED should specify its purpose, theory of action, and how the assessment results will be used so responders know the big picture.Gong – USED Common Assessment RFP Input Mtg – 11/17/09 (2012-13) Award RFP(s) (9/2009) And aligning curriculum, instruction, accountability, and supports takes longer. (2011-12) Second operational administra-tion first report using growth, etc. (2010-11) First operational administra-tion & reporting, etc. (2014-15) Pilot Test Items, promulgate high stakes policies, etc. (2009-10) Fourth operational administra-tion first graduating high school class, etc. Fast Implementation of RFP: 2012 (e.g., multi-state assessments with common content standards, “Peer Review” quality of things we know how to do) Test Specifi-cations Develop Items Use specs, reports, equating design,administration agreements, etc. Implementing a new multi-state summative assessment takes years 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 50 state systems, NAEP, TIMMS, PISA, PERLS, many LEA systems, NRTs, ACT/SAT, college’s tests, etc. For development through 2015, what we do not know how to do well at scale, but which has potential to lead to dramatically better assessment systems Gong – USED Common Assessment RFP Input Mtg – 11/17/09.With groups of multiple states (difficult to do).For implementation by 2012, what we already know how to do in large-scale assessment but.Short-term and Longer-term Investments Common Assessment RFP should fund Help foster good responses to the RFP and after Gong – USED Common Assessment RFP Input Mtg – 11/17/09.Invest in six “game changers” that could make assessment dramatically better within a decade, but should not be framed as being operationally implemented on the short time schedule (“2012”).Hedge bets by funding multiple ways to do multi-state common assessment, especially high school.Help foster good responses to the RFP Gong – USED Common Assessment RFP Input Mtg – 11/17/09.Say very clearly what you want in the RFP.When USED has to compromise, choose longer-term investments over short-term gains.USED should shape the RFP and fund it with a longer-term view of having in place dramatically better assessment systems in ten years.The future of assessment in the United States will be shaped by what gets funded in this “Common Assessment” RFP.Department of Education for the “Common Assessment” RFP, “Race to the Top” funding NovemAtlanta, GA Dramatically Better Assessment Systems: Advice for RTTT “Common Assessment” RFP Brian Gong Center for Assessment Presentation for the Input Meetings Sponsored by the U.S.
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