Preparing the Way2007-08: Preparing the Way 2007-08 Curriculum Coordinator Meeting
April 10, 2007
Background: Background
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Mississippi’s Rank on NAEP: Rank by Improvement Mississippi’s Rank on NAEP
Slide8: NAEP Proficiency Levels
Slide9: MCT Advanced Proficient Basic Minimal Most comparable to Comparing MCT to NAEP
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Mississippi’s Rank on NAEP: Mississippi’s Rank on NAEP Rank by Scale Score (Achievement)
ACT College Readiness Indicators: ACT College Readiness Indicators A student has a 50% chance of earning a B or higher grade, or an 80% chance of earning a C or higher grade in the corresponding entry-level, credit-bearing college course if the student score on the ACT is at least:
English – 18
Mathematics – 22
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Slide18: There is a gap between where our students are and where we want them to be.
Slide19: Where do we want to be?
Reaching the National Average: Reaching the National Average At our current rate of improvement, when would we reach the national average? Grade 4 Reading – 2069 Grade 4 Math – 2021 Grade 8 Reading – 2091 Grade 8 Math – 2029
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How will we get where we want to be?: Improved alignment between curriculum, assessment, and instruction
Grade and subject specific performance level descriptors
Item specifications and sample test
Curriculum guides (model instructional lessons)
Increase expectations for student learning
Rigorous academic experience
Three-tier instructional model
How will we get where we want to be?
Improving Alignment: Curriculum Frameworks 2000 Improving Alignment
Improving Alignment: Curriculum Frameworks 2006/2007 Improving Alignment
Improving Alignment Relationship between Curriculum and Assessment: Now: Improving Alignment Relationship between Curriculum and Assessment: Now Curriculum Framework
Competencies
Objectives
Suggested teaching strategies Instructional Intervention Supplements
Benchmarks Mississippi Curriculum Test Results reported in Reporting Categories
Improving Alignment Relationship between Curriculum and Assessment: 2007-08: Improving Alignment Relationship between Curriculum and Assessment: 2007-08 Curriculum Framework
Competencies
Objectives
Suggested teaching strategies Mississippi Curriculum Test Results reported by Competency
Increasing Expectations: What makes the content more challenging?
A focus on conceptual understanding (beyond the basic facts and simple procedures) – Why learn about this content?
A focus on critical thinking skills, problem-solving, and understanding connections between present learning and previous learning or experience
These ideas primarily reflect Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Level 2 and Level 3, but also Level 4. There is a corresponding decreased emphasis on DOK Level 1 (recall, reproduction, and simple procedures).
Increasing Expectations
Increasing Expectations: The curriculum frameworks are the starting point for increasing expectations.
Increasing Expectations
Language Arts & Math: The 2006 Language Arts Framework and the 2007 Mathematics Framework were the first to be developed with the end (assessment) in mind.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) informed both the curriculum frameworks and assessment.
Language Arts andamp; Math
Language Arts & Math: Developments since the frameworks were approved include:
Drafted performance level descriptors
Grade and subject specific
Developed for K – High School
Drafted test item specifications
Reviewed NCTM Curriculum Focal Points for revision of the mathematics framework
Received feedback from school districts Language Arts andamp; Math
Current Performance Level Descriptors: Current Performance Level Descriptors Not subject or grade specific
Current Performance Level Descriptors: Current Performance Level Descriptors
Sample Performance Level Descriptors for Grade 6 Language Arts: Students performing at the proficient level:
In vocabulary: Apply knowledge of roots and affixes (com-, ex-, il-, mid-, under-, sub-, -ance, -ence, -ive, -en) to determine the meaning of multi-syllabic words. Apply expansive knowledge of words and word meanings to communicate. Use context clues to determine the meanings of multiple meaning words and the figurative meanings of text. Use reference materials to evaluate word choice in a variety of texts and to determine meaning. Analyze and evaluate vocabulary usage based on appropriateness for context and purpose.
In reading comprehension: Apply knowledge of text features, parts of a book, text structures, and genres (plays) to gain information and analyze texts. Analyze text to infer (cause and effect based on sequence of events; predict outcomes), draw conclusions, or synthesize information. Generate an appropriate summary or paraphrase of events or ideas in literary text, literary non-fiction, and informational text of increasing length, complexity, and difficulty, citing text-based evidence. Interpret increasingly complex literary text, literary non-fiction, and informational text to compare and contrast information, citing text-based evidence. Analyze facts, opinions, and tools of persuasion (plain folks, tabloid thinking, shock tactics and fear, intertextual references) in text. Sample Performance Level Descriptors for Grade 6 Language Arts
Sample Performance Level Descriptors for Grade 6 Language Arts: Students performing at the proficient level:
In writing: Use an appropriate composing process to produce descriptive text, incorporating sensory details; narrative text, utilizing effective organization and vivid word choice containing multiple events; informational text including but not limited to texts containing chronological order, procedure, cause and effect, order of importance, and problem/solution; persuasive text utilizing effective word choice and organization; text comparing and contrasting findings based on inquiry and research.
In grammar: Apply knowledge of standard English grammar (direct and indirect objects; transitive and intransitive verbs; future perfect tense; subject-verb agreement in sentences with indefinite pronouns, compound subjects, and prepositional phrases separating subject and verb; indefinite and relative pronouns) and standard English mechanics (commas with introductory clauses and nonessential clauses; underlining/italics with plays and television shows) to compose or edit. Apply knowledge of sentence structure (adjective clauses, adverb clauses) to compose or edit. Spell words commonly found in sixth-grade-level texts. Sample Performance Level Descriptors for Grade 6 Language Arts
Sample Test Item Specification for Language Arts Grade 6: Competency 1: The student will use word recognition and
vocabulary (word meaning) skills to communicate.
Objective c: The student will use grade level appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. (DOK 2).
Depth of Knowledge Level: 2
Performance Level: Basic
Read the sentence in the box.
I __(1)___ on the floor where the banana __(2)___ lay exactly one hour after our teacher had fallen on it just as school came to its __(3)___.
Which group of words correctly completes the sentence in the box?
A. (1) Fell / (2) peal / (3) clothes
B. (1) Fail / (2) peel / (3) close
C. (1) Fell / (2) peel / (3) close *
D. (1) Fail / (2) peal / (3) clothes Sample Test Item Specification for Language Arts Grade 6
Sample Test Item Specification for Language Arts Grade 6: Competency 1: The student will use word recognition and
vocabulary (word meaning) skills to communicate.
Objective c: The student will use grade level appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. (DOK 2).
Depth of Knowledge Level: 2
Performance Level: Basic
Which sentence uses the pair of homonyms correctly?
A. Our principle taught us many useful life principals.
B. The baron looked across the barren fields with much disappointment. *
C. On the tropical aisle, I took a photograph of a church with a unique isle.
D. The attorney did not want to heir when he read the complicated will to the errs. Sample Test Item Specification for Language Arts Grade 6
Language Arts & Math: These developments highlighted areas for refinement of the curriculum frameworks.
Math
Include greater focus and depth with fewer objectives
Improve alignment across grades
Language Arts
Improve specificity
Differentiate further the skills in grades 4-8
Improve alignment across grades Language Arts andamp; Math
Transitioning Assessment Issues: Transitioning Assessment Issues
MCT2
MCT Retest / Grades 3 and 7 Benchmarks Policy
Writing
Algebra I and English II
Transitioning Assessment Issues: MCT2
Field testing of the MCT2 test items is occurring in May 2007.
A sample test will be released in fall 2007.
MCT2 will be composed of two tests – Language Arts (including reading and writing) and Mathematics. Consequently, MCT2 testing will be two days compared to three for the current MCT.
The standards for Minimal, Basic, Proficient, and Advanced will be set in summer 2008. Scores will be reported in August 2008.
Transitioning Assessment Issues
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Transitioning Assessment Issues: MCT Retest / Grades 3 and 7 Benchmarks Policy
994 grade 3 retests and 6,132 grade 7 retests administered in 2005 (some students take more than one test).
Opportunity to simplify and eliminate redundancy
Add an automatic referral to the teacher support team for students scoring Minimal on the grade 3 or grade 7 MCT as a part of the Board’s Intervention Policy (Policy 4300)
Eliminate the retest
Transitioning Assessment Issues
Transitioning Assessment Issues: Writing
Current program
Administered at grades 4, 7, and 10 (English II)
Grades 4 andamp; 7
Students write to a single prompt (narrative, informative, or persuasive)
The assessment is administered once per year
Responses are scored once
English II
Students write to one of two prompts (informative)
The assessment is administered three times per year
Responses are scored twice Transitioning Assessment Issues
Transitioning Assessment Issues: Writing
Moving forward
Make the writing program more uniform across the grade levels
Move to one contract for all of writing
Adopt a model that supports teacher professional development
Teachers would be trained to write prompts, create draft prompts, and field test in their classrooms.
Another group of teachers would be trained to score and would score the field-tested prompts and use the field test papers to create anchors and scoring guides.
Membership for both groups would change each year. Transitioning Assessment Issues
Transitioning Assessment Issues: Writing
Implementation
Proposal: Suspend grades 4 and 7 writing for 2007-08
Allow school districts to focus on MCT2
Provide time for initial development
Grades 4 and 7 writing administered in 2008-09
Students write to a single prompt (narrative, informative, or persuasive)
Responses will be scored twice
Transitioning Assessment Issues
Transitioning Assessment Issues: Writing
Implementation
Proposal: Phase in English II writing
Allow school districts to focus on English II Multiple-Choice initially
Introduce one additional informative prompt type each year over a three-year period starting in 2007-08
2007-08 – two prompts, both expository essay
2008-09 – two prompts, one expository essay and one position paper
2009-10 – two prompts, expository essay or position paper or response to literature
Provides time for teacher training which is important for student success
Transitioning Assessment Issues
Transitioning Assessment Issues: Algebra I and English II Multiple-Choice
Revisions in the curriculum frameworks mean the Subject Area Tests for the courses must also be revised.
The first test administration of Algebra I and English II Multiple-Choice tests based on the revised frameworks will be December 2007; second administration in April 2008.
The standards for passing and for Minimal, Basic, Proficient, and Advanced will be set in summer 2008.
Transitioning Assessment Issues
Transitioning Assessment Issues: Algebra I and English II Multiple-Choice
Student scores will not be provided until August 2008 (for December 2007 and April 2008).
Retesters (students that took Algebra I and English II in 2006-07 or earlier) will be assessed on the 'old' Algebra I and English II Multiple-Choice tests using only the online test.
Transitioning Assessment Issues
Transitioning Assessment Issues: Textbooks
Language Arts textbooks were adopted this spring (2007).
Mathematics textbooks will be adopted in 2007-08.
Textbooks are a resource and should not be used as the only resource for instruction.
Transitioning Assessment Issues