GROWTH MODEL Joint Exploration

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GROWTH MODEL Joint Exploration

• Kansas State Department of Education
• April, May, June

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Three Internal Sessions

• Overview session
• Measuring Student Growth A Guide for Informed
  Decision Making. Center for Public Education
• Implementers Guide to Growth Models
• CCSSO

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Purpose

• What do we want a growth model to do for us?
• What do they want us to do?
• But what about NCLB? What if it changes?

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Potential Purposes

• For NCLB
• For Accreditation
• To evaluate of programs
• To provide information for instruction
• To help identify teacher characteristics
  associated with student learning
• To ensure that each student is learning

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Specific Models

• Value Tables
• Student Growth Percentile

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Involving Stakeholders

• Kansas Assessment Advisory Committee (KAAC)
• Sent links to papers
• Asked them to explore with us in a two-day
  session
• They brought team members, supervisors,
  superintendents

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The Meeting

• TAC

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Presenters/Topics Day 1

• Bill Auty
• Growth Models For What Purpose?
• Pete Goldschmidt
• The Practical Benefits of Growth Models for
  Accountability and the Limitations Under NCLB
• Bill and Pete
• The Peer Review Process

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Presenters/Topics Day 1 (Cont.)

• Dawn Miller
• Data-Driven Decision Making for Instruction in a
  Multi-Tier System of Supports
• Dan Long
• Value Added

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Presenters/Topics Day 2

• Rich Hill
• Value Tables
• Damian Betebenner Dwayne Schmitz
• Student Growth Percentiles
• Bob Linn
• Consequential Validity

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Technical Advisory Committee

• Mike Kolen
• Bob Linn
• Jim Pelligrino
• Jim Popham
• Martha Thurlow

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Assessment Contractors

• Doug Glasnapp (CETE)
• Neal Kingston (CETE)
• John Poggio (CETE)
• Edynn Sato (WestEd)

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Process

• Presentation
• Discussants
• Table Process (questions provided by the
  presenters)
• End of Day
• Panel Discussion
• Table Process Summary

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Suggestions to KSDE

• Decide on a purpose
• Perform growth model analyses on existing data
• Continue the collaborative style
• Proceed with caution
• Retain the availability of indicator data to help
  teachers track student progress.

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Feedback on Growth Model Joint Exploration

• Excellent comprehensive look at the variety of
  growth models currently being used and explained
  across the country. Format led to identification
  of the most important issues associated with
  consideration and implementation of growth
  models.
• Lots of very bright people!

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Feedback on Growth Model Joint Exploration
(Contd.)

• As someone whos background is curriculum and
  instruction, not assessment, I was quite
  concerned coming in that the content would be
  overwhelming. However, I found the process to be
  very engaging and well planned and I learned a
  tremendous amount about growth models. This was
  a well-spent 2 days.
• Very informative.

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Feedback on Growth Model Joint Exploration
(Contd.)

• It would have saved a lot of effort and
  speculation if the purpose of the growth model
  had been slated up front.
• An excellent first step. I hope that KSDE
  follows this event with a joint exploration of
  the purpose for incorporating a G.M. toward a
  general consensus

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Next Steps

• Whether
• Purpose!!!
• Which
• Vertical Alignment???

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GROWTH MODEL Joint Exploration

• Kansas State Department of Education our
  stakeholders, our contractors, our TAC, and our
  growth model mentors
• April, May, June, 2008
• AND into the future!