This document outlines an agenda for a session on examining sample Consortium for Work-Based Readiness Assessments (CWRA) and performance task assessments. The session will:
1. Examine sample CWRA and performance task assessments.
2. Discuss the value of CWRA assessments, including their ability to assess skills like inquiry, critical thinking, and communication.
3. Discuss how CWRA-style assessments could be extended and implemented in other education programs.
The document provides links to sample CWRA assessments and invites participants to discuss what constitutes high and low quality student responses, the skills required for strong responses, and how CWRA assessments can be used as models and implemented in schools.
Report on a graduate course in emerging technologies where students conducted peer reviews on web-based projects of classmates, on criteria OTHER THAN those of the instructor.
A workshop centered around building quality into your courses through thoughtful course design. Discusses the use of rubrics such as the Quality Matters and BlackBoard Exemplary Course rubrics, as well as helps instructors use a blueprint to map out their own course objectives.
Lynne Porter
North Orange County Office of Education
The first part of this workshop gives an overview/review of rubrics as an instructional tool for both fostering and assessing student learning in a career-technical classroom. The second half focuses specifically on using rubrics-based performance evaluations to assess and grade student achievement of professional behaviors and attitudes.
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) on Tuesday, June 11, 10:00 am (PDT) for a webinar on Competency-based learning and OER. Competency-based learning is gaining traction as institutions strive to personalize learning experiences and decrease time to graduation. Students demonstrate mastery at their own pace through e-Portfolio assessments or on-demand tests and institutions often recommend free or open educational resources (OER) along with prior learning as a source for learning materials.
Hear from several higher education experts on how OER and open courses complement competency-based learning to improve student outcomes:
Dr. Ellen Marie Murphy, Executive Director of Curriculum and Learning Systems, Ivy Bridge College. Ivy Bridge College is a two-year online institution that streamlines the transfer process to four-year degrees through personalized learning programs.
Dr. Chari Leader-Kelley, Vice-President of Learning Counts at the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (CAEL). Learning Counts specializes in the assessment of prior learning for college credit. Currently working with the Saylor foundation to embed portfolio templates into open courses to allow students to demonstrate and reflect upon their learning.
Dr. David Shulman, Vice-President of the Virtual Campus and Instructional Technology at Broward College, Florida. Broward College is offering a competency-based MOOC this summer entitled “College Foundations: Reading, Writing, and Math” to provide students with skills to begin college or to prepare for college placement exams.
Participant Login Information:
There is no need to register in advance but please use the link below on the day of the webinar. You may use a headset or dial-in over the phone if you would like to speak otherwise you can listen directly from your computer speakers and use the chat window.
Join us for a timely and necessary workshop to prepare teachers for for upcoming CAASPP.
Teachers will walk away with:
A slew of resources to reference beyond the workshop time itself
Experience practicing with the performance tasks (as your students will be doing)
Management tips for the performance tasks
An understanding of what is necessary to prepare for and manage testing in the classroom
Connections made through collaborative conversations about the skills needed for you and your students to walk into the CAASPP prepared
Presented by Dr. Ashley Castleberry, Director of Assessment and Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy.
Peer evaluation and grading can be a powerful teaching method. Learning occurs when student have to assess another student’s work because it forces them to analyze the finer nuances of the assignment in order to grade and provide effective feedback to a peer. This feature can be used to assess as well as teach. This session will explore how ExamSoft Rubrics can be used for peer grading and lessons learned when first implementing this type of assignment.
Previously recorded August 19th, 2015
Report on a graduate course in emerging technologies where students conducted peer reviews on web-based projects of classmates, on criteria OTHER THAN those of the instructor.
A workshop centered around building quality into your courses through thoughtful course design. Discusses the use of rubrics such as the Quality Matters and BlackBoard Exemplary Course rubrics, as well as helps instructors use a blueprint to map out their own course objectives.
Lynne Porter
North Orange County Office of Education
The first part of this workshop gives an overview/review of rubrics as an instructional tool for both fostering and assessing student learning in a career-technical classroom. The second half focuses specifically on using rubrics-based performance evaluations to assess and grade student achievement of professional behaviors and attitudes.
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) on Tuesday, June 11, 10:00 am (PDT) for a webinar on Competency-based learning and OER. Competency-based learning is gaining traction as institutions strive to personalize learning experiences and decrease time to graduation. Students demonstrate mastery at their own pace through e-Portfolio assessments or on-demand tests and institutions often recommend free or open educational resources (OER) along with prior learning as a source for learning materials.
Hear from several higher education experts on how OER and open courses complement competency-based learning to improve student outcomes:
Dr. Ellen Marie Murphy, Executive Director of Curriculum and Learning Systems, Ivy Bridge College. Ivy Bridge College is a two-year online institution that streamlines the transfer process to four-year degrees through personalized learning programs.
Dr. Chari Leader-Kelley, Vice-President of Learning Counts at the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (CAEL). Learning Counts specializes in the assessment of prior learning for college credit. Currently working with the Saylor foundation to embed portfolio templates into open courses to allow students to demonstrate and reflect upon their learning.
Dr. David Shulman, Vice-President of the Virtual Campus and Instructional Technology at Broward College, Florida. Broward College is offering a competency-based MOOC this summer entitled “College Foundations: Reading, Writing, and Math” to provide students with skills to begin college or to prepare for college placement exams.
Participant Login Information:
There is no need to register in advance but please use the link below on the day of the webinar. You may use a headset or dial-in over the phone if you would like to speak otherwise you can listen directly from your computer speakers and use the chat window.
Join us for a timely and necessary workshop to prepare teachers for for upcoming CAASPP.
Teachers will walk away with:
A slew of resources to reference beyond the workshop time itself
Experience practicing with the performance tasks (as your students will be doing)
Management tips for the performance tasks
An understanding of what is necessary to prepare for and manage testing in the classroom
Connections made through collaborative conversations about the skills needed for you and your students to walk into the CAASPP prepared
Presented by Dr. Ashley Castleberry, Director of Assessment and Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy.
Peer evaluation and grading can be a powerful teaching method. Learning occurs when student have to assess another student’s work because it forces them to analyze the finer nuances of the assignment in order to grade and provide effective feedback to a peer. This feature can be used to assess as well as teach. This session will explore how ExamSoft Rubrics can be used for peer grading and lessons learned when first implementing this type of assignment.
Previously recorded August 19th, 2015
2. please introduce yourself and share:
why you chose this session?
and/or
what is your interest in
the cwra and performance task assessment?
3. 3 parts today:
1. Examining Sample CWRA and performance task
assessments.
2. Discussing the value of CWRA.
3. Discussing extending CWRA-style assessment into
our own programs.
4. Choose a performance task Address in review &
discussion:
cwra’s released crime reduction
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12155
5584/Performance-Task-Crime-
Reduction *What would you look
/ for as evidence of a
http://goo.gl/UMC21 high quality student
response?
or
acps elementary/art task: *What would be
evidence of a low
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12242
7895/ACPS
quality student
/
response?
http://goo.gl/zPJ89
*What skills are required
of students to compose
a high quality response?
10. AACUU’s LEAP
Intellectual and Practical
Skills
• Inquiry and analysis
• Critical and creative
thinking
• Written and oral
communication
• Quantitative literacy
• Information literacy
• Teamwork and problem
solving
Demonstrated through the
application of knowledge,
skills, and responsibilities to
new settings and complex
problems
11. * CWRA +
Cheaper
8th grade option
Specifically designed for 8-12
New SR questions
Accurate reporting for individual student tests
Broader applications
15. how can we use the cwra
as model
to strengthen this type
assessment for
teaching and learning
in our schools?
16. ACPS K-12 Performance Task Design Conferences
St. Gregory’s Open Computer Testing
Performance Task Academy & CLA in Classroom
Virginia Beach’s experience.
Others– Please share.
17. how do you think a school district can best
start if interested in cwra?