1. Approaches to Assessing
Student Learning
Redesigned Shirley Allen
Edu697
Professor Keith Pressey
October 6, 2014
2. Types of Models for measuring
assessment
1. Status models
2. Improvement models
3. Growth models
4. Value-added models (Kowalski & Mahoney, 2008)
3. Status Models
take a performance snapshot of student proficiency
at a particular point
uses data to improve teaching and learning
shows how on a yearly average, how students are
preforming
4. Improvement Model
measure changes between defined groups of
students
this uses data to improve teaching and learning is
by comparing grade levels for prior years
Critics feels that such approaches have very
limited utility
5. Growth Model
track the achievement progress of students’
performance change
uses data to improve teaching and learning is by
showing the teacher growth in academic
achievements within the school year
educators need at least two scores for each student
so that they can measure and compare
6. Value-added model
isolate the specific effects of a particular school,
program, or teacher on student academic progress
uses data to improve teaching and learning is by
separating things like family life, peers and
individual influences from a student’s school
performance
shows the student’s growth by the school or
teacher’s expectation
7. Theory/Reasoning
Teachers should focus on
students' efforts and not
on their abilities
Students fail, teachers
should also give feedback
about effort or strategies
Teachers should help
students’ value effort.
Teachers should teach
students to relish a
challenge
Students succeed, teachers
praise their
efforts/strategies, not their
intelligence
A key ingredient in creating
mastery-oriented students
Sustained effort over time is
the key to outstanding
achievement
Transmit the joy of
confronting a challenge and
of struggling to find
strategies that work
8. Theory/Reasoning Continues
Teachers can help
students focus on and
value learning
Having the right mind-set
Help students think
about learning, not
about proving how
smart they are
Grades are important, but
learning is more
important
Mind-set will help
students become more
able over time
The effect of this, they
focus on effort and
strategies instead of
worrying that they are
incompetent when
setbacks happens
9. References
Kowalski, T., Lasley II, T. & Mahoney, J. (2008).
Data driven decisions and school leadership: Best
practices for school improvement. Boston:
Pearson.
Hopkins, G. (2004). How can Teachers Develop
Students’ Motivation and Success? Retrieved on
September 1, 2014, from,
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/cha
t010.shtml.
Editor's Notes
Kowalski, T., Lasley II, T. & Mahoney, J. (2008). Data driven decisions and school leadership: Best practices for school improvement. Boston: Pearson.
Kowalski, T., Lasley II, T. & Mahoney, J. (2008). Data driven decisions and school leadership: Best practices for school improvement. Boston: Pearson.
Kowalski, T., Lasley II, T. & Mahoney, J. (2008). Data driven decisions and school leadership: Best practices for school improvement. Boston: Pearson.
Kowalski, T., Lasley II, T. & Mahoney, J. (2008). Data driven decisions and school leadership: Best practices for school improvement. Boston: Pearson.
Kowalski, T., Lasley II, T. & Mahoney, J. (2008). Data driven decisions and school leadership: Best practices for school improvement. Boston: Pearson.
Hopkins, G. (2004). How can Teachers Develop Students’ Motivation and Success? Retrieved on September 1, 2014, from, http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat010.shtml.
Hopkins, G. (2004). How can Teachers Develop Students’ Motivation and Success? Retrieved on September 1, 2014, from, http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat010.shtml.