<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Performance Assessment Literacy Training<br /></span></span>
<p>The <em>Building Educator Assessment Literacy to Support Student Achievement of College and Career Readiness Standards</em> project seeks to build teacher capacity and knowledge around the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by giving teachers an opportunity to practice scoring student responses to the performance task component of the new Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium assessments. The project is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.</p>
<p>In collaboration with WestEd, SCALE has developed professional development face-to-face and virtual training materials in math and ELA to be used by existing state infrastructures to expose practitioners to the Smarter Balanced performance tasks, student responses, and rubrics, thereby increasing teacher ability to include CCSS-aligned performance assessments in daily instruction. The project aims to develop a starting cadre of teachers who might ultimately be drawn upon to score and implement new state and district performance-based assessments.</p>
<p><em>Key Deliverables </em><em> <br /> </em></p>
<p>• To provide teachers the opportunity to learn about Smarter Balanced performance tasks and how they fit within the larger Smarter Balanced </p>
<p> Assessment System and assessment continuum.<em></em></p>
<p>• To expose teachers to Smarter Balanced scoring tools and processes, and to use the</p>
<p> analysis and scoring of student work to deepen their understanding of the demands of</p>
<p> Smarter Balanced performance tasks.</p>
<p>• To develop an initial cadre of teachers who might ultimately be drawn upon to receive formal training to</p>
<p> score summative performance tasks</p>
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<p>PLEASE NOTE: Participants will have access to performance tasks and student responses from the spring 2014 Smarter Balanced Field Test. Because these materials are secure, all participants must sign a non-disclosure agreement and follow procedures for secure-materials. During event sessions that use secure materials, electronic devices (including cell phones) must be put away. Math participants should bring a calculator (not a smartphone with a calculator app).</p>
Category
Assessment/Accountability
Project
Local Control and Accountability Plan Support and Advisory Services
NOTE: Details for each specific Training/Workshop might vary from the above description.
