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A National Assessment Literacy Campaign: But Not for Educators National Conference on Student Assessment June 22, 2015

Welcome Terry Mazany President and CEO The Chicago Community Trust Chair, National Assessment Governing Board 2

Assessment Literacy W. James Popham Emeritus Professor University of California, Los Angeles 3

Vision for Assessment Literacy Initiative • Why assessment literacy? • What are the essential components? – Initiative should include the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) but be intentionally broader than NAEP – Initiative should be at collaborative effort between National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) and National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) • Why NAGB? 4

Target Audiences • Primary audiences for the assessment literacy initiative: – Begin with parents – Expand to policymakers and students • “Understandings” – Small number per audience – Less—so much, much more 5

Perspectives from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Peggy Carr Acting Commissioner 6 National Center for Education Statistics

NCES Family of Assessments •Span early childhood to adulthood •Varies in design methodologies –National and international –Cross-sectional and longitudinal –Group assessment designs 7

Ongoing Challenges for Assessments • Perception of “too much testing” • Stakeholders demand test relevancy • Solution begins with assessment literacy 8

Development Process for “Understandings” and Communication Strategies Sharyn Rosenberg Assistant Director for Psychometrics 9 National Assessment Governing Board

Development of “Understandings” • Assessment Literacy Work Group • Staff/Contractors • External Feedback – Expert interviews – Focus groups – Laurie Wise 10

Assessment Literacy Contributors Jim Andrew Ho Tonya Popham Miles Lou Rebecca Lucille Fabrizio Gagnon Davy

NAGB Summit for Parent Leaders • Key takeaways – Parents want to know how to interpret their child’s test results – Parents want to know how testing relates to learning – Parents are confused about different tests and their purposes 12

National Conference on Student Assessment • Key takeaways – Communication about achievement levels is important – Talk about the assessment quality and precision – Word understandings more positively – Communicate the differences between a group and an individual assessment 13

Expert Interviews: Feedback • Formative assessment – Feedback improves performance – Explain why students may be doing well in the classroom but not on assessments • Quality variation – Parents should not have burden of judging quality • Evidence for interpretation and uses – Purpose of assessments and why they are needed – Address parent misconceptions 14

Focus Groups: Lessons Learned “Understandings” Findings Parents want more information about the Evidence for interpretations and uses specific purpose of each assessment and how the results will be used Parents support having multiple measures to Accuracy of test scores assess student performance Fairness & Parents are apprehensive about the fairness Accuracy and accuracy of “high stakes” assessments Parents rely on educators to determine if a test Variations in test quality is high quality Parents are not familiar with the term, but they Assessments to improve teaching and learning value the concept of formative assessments 15

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Next Steps and Open Discussion Lou Fabrizio Data, Research, and Federal Policy Director 19 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Next Steps • Pending Governing Board approval, campaign will be executed through a coordinated multiyear rollout • Timeline – The plan was presented to the full Governing Board in May – Board expected to take action on plan in August 20

Open Discussion 1) What actions should we take? 2) What actions should we avoid? 21