Administration and Scoring Period

2011-12 NYSAA Administration Period: October 3, 2011 to February 10, 2012
2011-12 NYSAA Scoring Period: March 12, 2012 to May 4, 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

Is this acceptable for evidence?


AGLI TEXT: Create picture(s), symbol(s), object(s), etc. to communicate information.
Task:  The student  will create picture(s), symbol(s), object(s), etc. to communicate information about a text or a personal experience/preference.

Data Collection Sheet for Discrete Trial Data was used.

Trial #1 Created picture to communicate what he ate for lunch. Trial #2 Created picture to communicate one special activity. Trial # 3 Created picture to communicate second special activity of the day.
RESPONSE: The guidance has typically been that if the assessment task produces any sort of a “product” that it would be best practice to include that “product” as the verifying evidence. The teacher could submit the created pictures as the supporting evidence for the Data Collection Sheet if he or she is set on using the Data Collection Sheet. Overall, it does seem that the steps on the discrete trial Data Collection Sheet do describe what is being expected as the student action. 

Science – HS
AGLI 32104   Identify weather conditions
Task- The student will identify weather conditions by completing a simple weather calendar.

The verifying evidence has three days when the student completed a weather calendar. During that week, one day was a school holiday and one day the student was absent.
RESPONSE: The evidence appears to connect to the AGLI, but you haven’t indicated that the student is being assessed on identifying weather conditions. If he/she is identifying the weather conditions then it seems that this evidence would be okay. Only one date with student performance data can be taken from the chart or calendar so the second piece of evidence would need to be another calendar from a different week that shows the student identifying weather conditions.