Summary of January 17, 2001
Meeting of
Assessment Coordinators
St. Louis
Airport Holiday Inn
Assessment Coordinators or Persons
Representing Assessment Coordinators Present at the Meeting:
Jean
Behrends – California State University, Fresno
Rob
Boody – University of Northern Iowa
Jerry
Long – Emporia State University
Georgea
Langer – Eastern Michigan University
Ben
Berhow – Millersville University
Betty Jo Simmons – Longwood University
Nancy
Keese – Middle Tennessee State University
Tony
Norman – Western Kentucky University
Jo
Anne Rainey – Kentucky State University
Beverly
Petch-Hogan – Southeast Missouri State
Members
of the Assessment Coordinators group shared their experiences with the August
2000 draft of the Renaissance Teacher Work Sample Prompt.
University of Northern Iowa and Western Kentucky University had modified
the prompt to be more user friendly for teacher candidates.
Emporia State University had not only made substantial modifications in
the prompt but also had spent considerable time developing a scoring rubric to
assess performance levels of student teachers at the end of the fall semester of
2000. Jerry Long from Emporia State
University shared their model and scoring rubrics with other participants.
Since
the original plan for group consensus about a scoring rubric and revision of the
prompt across project sites had not been possible, institution representatives
met in the afternoon of January 17 to identify the teaching processes that
should be assessed and how the teaching processes should be defined in the
prompt and in the scoring rubric. Seven processes were identified and working groups were
formed to begin to flesh out the indicators for each teaching process.
The seven processes were:
Contextual
Factors
Learning
Goals
Assessment
Plan
Design
for Instruction
Instructional
Decision Making
Analysis
of Student Learning
Self-evaluation
and Reflection
Because Emporia State University had spent considerable time developing the model they used in the fall of 2000 with faculty and school practitioners, the Emporia State University group elected to continue to use their model with programs in their partner schools in Kansas. Representatives from the other nine project sites agreed to come back together on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to flesh out processes, standards and indicators to develop a revised and more user-friendly prompt and scoring rubrics that would be used in the spring semester of 2001.