Assessment Committee
- Assessment Committee Membership
- Assessment Committee Report June 23, 2008 (PDF)
- Assessment Committee Report July 16, 2007 (PDF)
- Assessment Committee Report August 28, 2006 (PDF)
- Assessment Committee Report June 13, 2005 (PDF)
Background
The motivation to address a district-wide assessment system lies in a state and national context as much as the local district assessment climate. As our nation and state have experienced more and more explicit levels of accountability for student achievement outcomes, districts everywhere have been challenged to set internal accountability measures to prepare their students for success in this high-stakes assessment environment.
In the autumn of 2003, it became increasingly clear that the district's assessment system needed improvement. In response to this need, the Assessment Committee was formed to begin the work of a district-wide committee.
Committee Parameters
The Assessment Committee was charged with the following eight directives:
- Review the assessments currently in place.
- Review and recommend revisions to the matrix indicating when district assessments are administered, the audience for the assessment, the purpose for the assessment, and whether the assessment is mandated or optional in each content area.
- Review local assessments to ensure their fit with federal and state mandated assessment requirements.
- Review proposed new assessments to determine how they will enhance the current assessment system’s ability to deliver timely, useful data for learning and teaching growth.
- Review how assessments will be used to support instruction, report to parents, and identify professional development needs.
- Make recommendations for professional development to ensure the appropriate implementation of an assessment.
- Make recommendations for addition or removal of assessments as needs of teachers and students change.
- Review and recommend changes to the district’s report cards, beginning at the elementary grades, in order to better link them with the state standards and the data produced by the district’s assessment system.