June+21

This week's topic is standardized testing. You will need the two websites below to respond to the discussions.

[]

[]


 * School improvement plan (SIP): This assignment is due June 22.** Using 2008 data, develop a school improvement plan for your school or another public school of your choice. If you do not have access to summary reports for the CRCT, GHSGT, or EOCT, you can find assessment data on Georgia's school report cards. The report cards can be found on the second website listed above. From the homepage for Governor's Office of Student Achievement, click on Accountability, then click on Report Card, then on K-12 public schools. On the next page, pick your school. From the school page, click on "Georgia tests" in blue in the lower left part of the page. This will lead you to data from the major assessments given at that school.

For the school improvement plan you can choose a specific grade level __or__ a specific content area (example: grade 4, CRCT reading). As you evaluate the data, try to determine in which areas students are performing well and where students can improve in performance. In the SIP, make sure you include a brief description of the school (which school system it belongs to, what type of school it is, school demographics) as well as a brief description of the assessment from which you get data (name of the assessment, its purpose, how results are reported). Describe the areas of strength and the areas needing improvement. Make instructional recommendations, making sure that the recommendations are directly related to data. For example, ELL students may not perform well in reading. Do not recommend that ELL parents learn to speak English. You can't control whether that will happen, and it's not directly related to the instruction of the ELL students.

Below you will see two links to examples of well-written and poorly-written school improvement plans. (Tubman is the good one; Burch is the weak one.) You need to read each plan, then post a critique of the strengths and weaknesses of each plan. Seeing these plans and recognizing important criteria will help you in writing your own school improvement plan. It will also help to see critiques given by your classmates. They may notice things you didn't. The rubric for grading the school improvement plan is also posted.

[]

[]

[]