SOL Remediation

Types of Assessment

 Formal vs. Informal  Written vs. Performance Tasks vs. Projects vs. Portfolios  Summative vs. Diagnostic vs. Formative

Summative Assessments

 Designed to measure knowledge, skills, and abilities after instruction has taken place.

 Typically Summative Assessments has “Pass” and “Fail” associated with them which distinguishes them from Formative and Diagnostic which don’t.

 Examples:  SOL  SAT/ACT  Final Exams or tests

Diagnostic Assessment

 Understand the current knowledge, skill, and/or ability so that we can diagnose the gap and thereby provide a prescription for learning if required.

 Identify students’ current knowledge of a subject, their skill sets and capabilities, and to clarify misconceptions before teaching takes place.  Knowing students’ strengths and weaknesses can help you better plan what to teach and how to teach it.

Examples:    NWEA ARDT Teacher Evaluation Skills/Tasks

Formative Assessment

 Provide feedback and information during the instructional process, while learning is taking place, and while learning is occurring.

 Used to strengthen memory recall by practice and to correct misconceptions and to promote confidence in ones knowledge.

Examples:    Warm-ups & Exit tickets ActivEngage Informal assessments – survey, thumbs up/thumbs down

SPBQ Report

 Student Performance By Question (SPBQ)  SOL report generated from VDOE  Breaks down SOL into question stems

Determine what is important!

 Identify district and school strengths and weaknesses  Ideal time – summer planning, beginning of the year How can I use this now?

 Examine topics of emphasis  Examine question stems – TEI? Rigor?

Team approach

 Work smarter – not harder!

 Examine your pacing for remainder of the year

Algebra Readiness Diagnostic Test (ARDT)  Math 6 – Algebra 1  Limited licenses/units  Computer adaptive  Old SOL items and new TEI items  Strand reports

SOL Simulation

 2013 SOL Simulation administration  Split into reporting categories.

 Give in parts or as a whole – school-based decision!

 Different scenarios: ○ ○ Focus on “endurance” Focus on “instructional time”  Remediate immediately based upon student performance.

Jefferson Lab Quizzes

 Old SOL questions have been realigned to 2009 SOL.

 2012 Simulation has been uploaded (Geometry available after spring break)  http://education.jlab.org/solquiz/  Select  Fixed versus Random

Recording Student Progress

 2012 SOL Simulation is fair game to use!

 SOL booklet  Warm-up Questions  SOL Tracker  Chesterfield Quizzes  York County Reviews  Houghton Mifflin documents

Warm-up & Exit Tickets

 Spiraled review of SOL content  Gather data through  Socrative http://www.socrative.com/  IXL Math http://www.ixl.com/  ActivEngage  Whiteboards  Survey/Polling – http://www.pollev.com

Develop Remediation Programs  Cruisin ’ Through Math - VCTM  Math Sharing folder – SOL review  Sharing session – different remediation plans?