Summary of June 13 - 16, 2001

Assessment Coordinators Meeting and Teacher Work Sample Work Session
St. Louis, Airport North Holiday Inn
All ten Assessment Coordinators met Wednesday, June 13, 2001, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. to develop scoring procedures and data collection processed related to teacher work samples.  A total of 117 teacher work samples were brought to the work session and duplicated for benchmarking and scoring.  Assessment Coordinators were prepared on Wednesday to manage the Thursday/Friday scoring sessions.  Stephanie Salzman and Peter Denner of Idaho State served as consultant-trainers for the three-day work session.

On Thursday and Friday, June 14 and 15, 50 members of project teams and two visitors from the Oklahoma Title II project scored teacher work samples using both analytic and holistic rubrics.  Thursday was used for scoring training and separating work samples into four performance levels:  (1) beginning, (2) developing, (3) proficient, and (4) expert.  On Friday, June 15, 40 expert scorers each scored ten teacher work samples and submitted their scores to the data pool.  Data from 400 scored work samples were used to develop reliability scores for scorers to verify work sample exemplars and establish validity of the TWS standard, prompt and rubric.

On Saturday, June 16, all participants met to suggest revisions for the prompt and rubric that would improve the teacher work sample materials for use in the fall of 2001.  A committee of six project personnel were appointed to translate suggestions for improvements into a revised draft of the prompt.  The result was the new July 2001 Teacher Work Sample Performance Prompt, Teaching Process Standards and Scoring Rubric (see Project Activities - Teacher Work Samples to download the July 2001 draft).