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Analyzing Student Work
Robert V. Jervis Consultant for the Council of Chief Staff School Officers
Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment Project
Analyzing Student Work: A Research-Based Model
A Strategy for improving student achievement adapted from the Standards in Practice Model available from ASCD
Analyzing Student Work
Why is analyzing student work the logical next step in curriculum alignment and module development?
A Focus on Teaching• or
A Focus on Learning
The Learning Blueprint: FOCUSING ON INSTRUCTIONAL PRIORITIES
TARGETINGASSESSINGTEACHINGFEEDBACK
TeacherStudent
The Learning Blueprint: FOCUSING ON INSTRUCTIONAL PRIORITIES
TARGETINGASSESSING
FEEDBACK TO TEACHERS
TEACHING FEEDBACK TO
TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
What can an analysis of student work tell us?
Principles that guide effective instruction
Are teachers teaching to the standards? Is there alignment of standards (curriculum),
instruction, and assessment? Are teacher tasks and activities elevating
student thinking to the level of the standards? Does assessment provide feedback to students
of progress toward understanding? Is there rigorous instruction in the classroom?
High Expectations of All Students
Continuous collaborative feedback
to the teaching-learning process enables students to rise to the level of the standard.
Rigorous Assignments Students can do no
better than the assignments they are given.
A Focus on Learning
What is it we want all students to learn?
How will we know if they have learned it?
How will we respond when they don’t?
Rick DuFour
Analyzing Student Work
What does a training model for analyzing student work look like?
Analyzing Student Work Summative
Assessments Rigor of
Assignments Alignment to
Standards Quality of Student
Work Teacher and
Student Feedback
Other Benefits of Focusing on Analyzing Student Work
Functioning as a Team Member Planning and Assessing
Collaboratively Discussion of Higher Order Thinking
Skills Sharing in the Teaching-Learning
Process Justification for including Team
Planning as Priority During the School Day
Nuts and Bolts of the Process
Phase I: Analyzing the Task The team meets to review the task focusing on the
rigor of the task and the context for demonstrating understanding
The team discusses the standards identified for the task and discusses how well this task demonstrates an understanding of these standards
The team reviews the scoring guide for the task to ensure that the criteria provides: Clear and accurate directions for the student Specific criteria for developing the product or
performance Opportunities for students to demonstrate
understanding
PRESENTING THE TASK:The Teacher Cover Sheet Context for the Task
Connection to Standards
“The Task”
The Scoring Tool
Phase II:Analyzing Student Work
The teacher provides: A brief review of the task A brief review of the scoring guide A review of the standards related to the task
The team: Uses the scoring guide individually to score the
student samples Discusses the scores with the team and shares
strengths and weaknesses of the student work using the scoring guide as the basis for comment
Suggests specific teaching strategies which might improve student achievement
Feedback Form Phase I: Guiding Questions
High Expectations Focus on State Standards Effectiveness of Scoring Tool
Phase II: Guiding Questions Task Revision Coming to Consensus Constructive Feedback
Role Definition
What are the roles of all of the participants in the process?
BREAK TIME
Day Dreaming Time
Critical Roles in the Implementation Process
The Facilitator The Principal of the School Team Members Outside Support
RESOURCE GUIDETechnical Support
Helping the school team plan the task Rigor Connection to Standards Creating the Scoring Tool
Monitoring the Process Understanding the Task Scoring Process Coming to Consensus Feedback on Teaching Strategies
RESOURCE GUIDETechnical Support
Encouraging Principal Support Purpose Process Commitment Role of Each Stakeholder Team and Teacher Selection
“Talking and Walking” with the Principal Student Work on Display Connection to Research-Based Strategies and On-Going
Initiatives Staff Readiness Logistics
IMPLEMENTATION MODEL Organizing for Success
Forming Teams
Collecting Data
Analyzing Results
Providing Feedback on the Plan
MONITORING FOR STUDENT PERFORMANCE Principal Observations
Student Behaviors
Interaction with Students
Samples of Student Work
Planning an Onsite Visit Critical Roles in the Process
The Instructional Monitoring Process Setting Priorities for the Visit Initial Visit – A Focus on Instruction Second Visit – Analysis of Student Work
Pause for Reflection:Sharing Ideas Other Ideas for Getting A School
Started in the Process Teaching Goal Setting Providing Resources Schedule and Planning Highlighting Team Efforts Expanding the Nucleus to a School-
Wide Initiative
Application
Let’s see if it flies!
A Sample Task
Adapted from “Focused Feedback”, Marcy Emburger
Maryland Classroom, September, 2000
Part Two: Modeling the Process
Assessing the Worth of the Task
Is this task worth the effort it will take to develop and score it?
Is it a DOL IV task in which students are asked to problem solve, make a decision, investigate an issue, or invent something?
If it is a writing assignment, is the topic worth writing about and of interest to the the students?
Are students being challenged?
Context of the TaskThis task is part of an 8th grade unit on how magazines use art and persuasive techniques to persuade us to buy their products.
At the beginning of the unit, the teacher asked students to talk about what they already knew about advertisements in magazines and on television.
She also used examples of various kinds of advertising to demonstrate techniques of advertising. She modeled the process of analyzing advertisements to identify the persuasive techniques by using a think aloud strategy to explain her thinking to the class.
She then had several students practice the process as they analyzed various advertisements and went through the think aloud process for the rest of the class. Class discussion added additional information to the process.
Students then worked in small groups so each student would have the opportunity to use the think aloud process to analyze an advertisement from a magazine.
The teacher is now ready to individually assess student understanding of how magazine advertisements are used to persuade us to buy their products.
Assessing the Connection of the Task to State Content Standards
Does the task provide evidence of an understanding of a state standard(s)?
Is the connection the teacher making a realistic one?
Are there opportunities to connect this task to standards in other program areas?
Are connections made to specific skills?
Standards
This task targets the following indicators:
Writing to Inform (Grades 6-8)
•Students support all statements and claims with relevant anecdotes, descriptions, facts, statistics, and/or specific information.
•Students write reports for an intended audience that convey a clear and accurate perspective on the subject, and that support the main idea with facts, details, and explanations.
•Students write essays for an intended audience and purpose that state the thesis or purpose of the paper, that follow an organizational pattern, and that offer compelling evidence in the form of facts and details to support the thesis.
Assessing the Scoring Tool Does the scoring tool
provide clear and accurate directions telling the students what the product should look like?
Does the scoring tool provide opportunities for the student to be creative and inventive?
Does the scoring tool provide opportunities to demonstrate understanding?
Rubric
4: This answer shows a thorough understanding of the advertisement with evidence of connections between the reader’s ideas and the advertisement; the answer has references to text/art in support of inferences to the advertisement’s effectiveness; responses indicate clear personal judgment with support.
3: This answer shows a good understanding and evidence of connections to the reader’s ideas; the answer has references to text/art in support of inferences to the advertisement’s effectiveness; responses indicate a personal judgment with some support.
2: This answer shows some surface understanding of persuasion; the answer has minimal references to text/art in support of inferences to the advertisement’s effectiveness; responses indicate little personal judgment of effectiveness.
1: This answer indicates there may be some understanding of the advertisement, but there is little evidence of constructing meaning (some unsupported inferences).
0: No evidence of understanding
Scoring the Task (Individually)
Is each team member using the scoring guide to score the student samples? Is each team member scoring each example of student work? Are they keeping their score confidential until it is time to discuss the score with the team?
FOCUSED FEEDBACKIs the feedback corrective in nature? Is the feedback specific to the criteria and the scoring guide? Have I used questions to focus the feedback on specific criteria? Have I provided some positive feedback? Will I be able to use the focused feedback to make suggestions to the teacher?
What did the students’ work show?
•A need to do some re-teaching
•Student work showed only a surface understanding of the criteria.
•Students did not make connections between their ideas and the advertisements.
•Most students were not able to link the art and the text.
•Responses did not indicate clear personal judgment with relevant or adequate support.
FOCUSED FEEDBACK
• Is the feedback corrective in nature?
• Is the feedback specific to the criteria and the scoring guide?
• Is the feedback provided in a positive manner?
• Does the feedback lead to specific suggested teaching strategies for the classroom?
Teaching Strategies
•What are the areas in which students are performing well?
•What teaching strategies seem to be working well?
•What are the areas in which students need to improve?
•What specific teaching strategies might we suggest to bring about improvement?
•What specific feedback should the teacher give the students about overall performance on this task?
•Are there any students who need individual help in critical areas of performance?
Teacher FeedbackHow I have helped the team become a more effective instructional unit?
Analyzing Student Work
Analyzing student work is a logical extension of the module development process Provides the critical element of
feedback to the planning process