TPA Task 2 Calibration

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TPA Task 2 Calibration

• Claremont Graduate University

Sonja Lopez
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What is the role of a TPA assessor?

• The role of an assessor for the TPA is to conduct
  a fair equitable assessment of each teacher
  candidates performance using professional
  judgment in conjunction with a standardized
  scoring protocol.

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What do you remember about

• Rubrics?
• Qualitative Language?
• TPA Scoring Levels?
• The ROEs format Evidence, Interpretation of
  Evidence Summary Statement?

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How to Conduct a Fair Equitable Assessment

• Collect good evidence using professional judgment
• Be conscious of ways biases may interfere
• Use standardized scoring protocol
• Base on the preponderance of evidence found in
  the entire TPA

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Good Evidence Is Based on Good Notes Good Notes
Are

• Factual
• Representative
• Relevant

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Good Notes Help Assessors Make Good Scoring
Decisions

• A structured scoring process forces assessors to
  look for certain kinds of evidence that directly
  relates to the task-specific rubric
• Requires assessors to review their notes as part
  of the evaluative step
• A critical part of arriving at an objective score
  is basing it on the evidence recorded

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Good Notes Ensure Legal Defensibility

• Assessor notes become part of the permanent
  record for a teacher candidate, if there is a
  challenge to the scoring decision, they are
  reviewed to evaluate the appropriateness of the
  score.

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Tips to Good Note Taking

• Use the abbreviations list
• Know where to find the evidence
• Record evidence using sentence frames
• Be specific about each case
• Visualize as you follow the format of the ROE
• Refer to the qualitative language list
• Add it up

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Step 1 - DESCRIBE

• Read analyze the response
• On the LEFT SIDE of the ROE, record evidence in a
  descriptive fashion as you encounter it
• Evidence may come from one or more data sources
  for any one aspect, also note when evidence is
  missing
• As you take notes, you will make interpretive
  comments on the right side of the ROE

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Step 2 - INTERPRET

• Record interpretations on the RIGHT SIDE of the
  ROE
• Make interpretations of each section as you go
• You should be writing interpretations throughout,
  not at the end of the response
• Allows each section to be evaluated independently
• At this point you are not making score-level
  judgments
• Use the evaluative language provided

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Step 3 SCORE

• The last part of the scoring process is the
  holistic judgment of the performance
• Take your time to re-think the response as a
  whole
• This is where you will come to a final score,
  thinking about each part of the evidence all
  the notes you have made.
• Think in terms of the underlying attributes of
  the performance, NOT the surface features or your
  initial reactions.
• Base your answer on the evidence you have
  documented on the entire ROE
• Write the summary statement which includes
  score-level language from the holistic statement
  of the task-specific rubric