The Renaissance Teacher Work Sample Project

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The Renaissance Teacher Work Sample Project

• Ratings of Teacher Work Samples
• Fall 2001

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Method

• Forty-one Longwood students completed Teacher
  Work Samples in their intermediate-level
  Practicum Experience
• 30 of these Teacher Work Samples were rated using
  the TWS Rubric
• Indicator Met
• Indicator Partially Met
• Indicator Not Met
• On the seven standards of the Teacher Work Sample
  Methodology

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The Seven Standards of the TWSM

• Contextual Factors
• Learning Goals
• Assessment Plan
• Design for Instruction
• Instructional Decision-Making
• Analysis of Student Learning
• Self-Evaluation and Reflection

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Section 1 Scoring by Practicum Instructor
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Summary of Results

• Practicum students scored highest in
• Learning Goals
• Assessment Plan
• With the exception of Technical Soundness
• Design for Instruction
• With the exception of Use of Technology
• Instructional Decision-Making
• Practicum students scored lowest in
• Contextual Factors
• Analysis of Student Learning, and
• Reflection and Self-Evaluation

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Contextual Factors
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Learning Goals
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Assessment Plan
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Design for Instruction
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Instructional Decision-Making
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Analysis of Student Learning
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Reflection Self-Evaluation
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Section 2 Scoring by Teams
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Scoring by Teams

• Twenty Teacher Work Samples from Longwood
  Practicum students were scored at the January
  2002 Renaissance Teacher Work Sample Work Session
• Assessment coordinators, and teacher preparation
  administrators and faculty from 11 institutions
  participated in scoring work samples
• Teams of raters gave holistic ratings to these
  work samples using the TWS Scoring Rubric
• The Practicum course is an intermediate level
  course in the Teacher Preparation program

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Holistic Scores for Practicum Students Teacher
Work Samples