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5 Things You Can Do: Achievement
1. Use Protocols to Make Sense of Student Achievement Data
Sometimes, discussing student data can make people feel “on the spot”
or exposed, either for themselves, their students or their profession.
The use of a structured dialogue format provides an effective technique
for managing the discussion and maintaining its focus.
A structured dialogue is a way of organizing a group conversation by
clearly defining who should be talking when, and about what. While at
first it may seem rigid and artificial, a clearly defined structure
frees the group to focus its attention on what is most important. In
general, structured dialogue formats allot specified times for the
group to discuss various aspects of the work.
The National School Reform Faculty’s (NSRF) ATLAS Protocol was
designed to help structure educators’ conversations about student
achievement data. To download a PDF of the protocol, click here.
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2. Use Performance Assessments
Performance assessment is a measure of student assessment based on
authentic tasks (such as activities, exercises, or problems) that
require students to demonstrate what they know, understand and can do.
Performance tasks often have more than one acceptable solution; they
may call for a student to create a response to a problem and then
explain or defend it. The process involves the use of higher-order
thinking skills (e.g., cause and effect analysis, deductive or
inductive reasoning, experimentation, and problem solving). Performance
tasks may be used primarily for assessment at the end of a period of
instruction, but are frequently used for learning as well as assessment.
The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) sponsors National Exhibition
Month each year to highlight the country’s best examples of performance
assessment. To learn more, click here.
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3. Assess Habits of Mind and Being
In addition to quantitative measures of student achievement, your
school might want to consider identifying — and then measuring — the
qualitative traits you want your students to embody and model.
Habits of Being are qualities and characteristics that are essential to
student success, whether at school, college, or work. At Monadnock
Community Connections School (MC2), a small public school of choice in
New Hampshire, students are required to demonstrate Competency in
habits like Character, Quality Work, Collaboration, Curiosity and
Wonder.
Habits of Mind are thinking traits that are essential to lifelong
learning. Students are also required to demonstrate Competency in these
habits, which include Problem Solving, Decision Making, Critical
Thinking, Creative Thinking, Communication, Organization, Management,
Leadership, Information and Technology.
To view MC2’s habits, click here.
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4. Measure Civic Literacy & Skills
The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools (CMS), in partnership
with the National Center for Learning and Citizenship (NCLC) at the
Education Commission of the States, has developed assessment
instruments to measure both student attainment of civic knowledge,
skills, and dispositions, as well as a school’s civic climate and how
well it has embraced its civic mission.
The student assessment tools seek a middle ground between performance
assessment instruments, such as student portfolios and exhibitions of
learning, and more narrow multiple-choice assessments.
Click here to view the civic assessments database.
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5. Take the Bronx SAT
Fourteen Bronx public high school students turned the tables on
high-stakes testers recently with the introduction of SAT Bronx, a test
uncovering the strengths and skills that urban youth call on every day.
Can you decode the lingo of the streets? Account for how public transit
fares treat some riders better than others? Get out of a fight without
making yourself a target? Stay true to your culture and your national
identity? Figure out the reality behind a military recruiter’s pitch?
Get yourself the education you deserve?
SAT Bronx asks readers to pay close attention to the words and
experiences of urban youth—and then to analyze the implications of the
solutions they choose. Answering its multiple-choice questions,
test-takers must consider important issues of multiculturalism and
equity, knowledge and skills, and the assumptions that underlie our
thinking about what urban youth know and can do.”
To learn more, click here.
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