Questions from our
collegial review today:
Grade 3 ELA
34107 - Show respect by
attending to what the speaker is saying.
VE - A time
segmented data collection sheet, with time segments of 1 second
each
Question: How does
the teacher demonstrate that the student specifically "showed respect", or is
this AGLI saying that attending to what the speaker is saying automatically
means they demonstrated showing respect? Attending to a speaker, especially for
a 1 second interval, is measuring "attending", not necessarily that the student
is showing respect. RESPONSE: The AGLI is
indicating that to demonstrate showing respect the student will attend to the
speaker. The use of a time segment DCS is acceptable VE.
Grade 4 Science
12101 - Recognize
tool(s)
that are used in a scientific investigation.
This AGLI has
resulted in a number of instances in No Scores in the past where the VE did not
connect to the task as the VE pertained to scientific tools, but did not show
any link to them "being used for scientific investigations." You and I spoke
about several of these during scoring last year.
We saw 2 instances
of this AGLI at collegial today:
1. Directions on
worksheet from teacher 1: Match the correct tool used for each scientific
investigation.
- Questions: Tool used to measure temperature (thermometer or pan), tool used to measure weight (stove or balance scale)
RESPONSE: This VE
appears to connect to the AGLI and task.
2. Directions on
worksheet from teacher 2: Recognize the scientific tools used in simple
investigations
- Student circled from the following choices: telescope, chalk, books, goggles
Teacher #2 is
concerned about whether she needs to revamp her worksheets to the level of
specificity used by teacher #1.
RESPONSE: This VE
would need to have a clear indication of the scientific investigation that the
tool(s) would be used for in order for the VE to connect.
Grade 7 ELA
12213 Recognize
characters in multiple literary stories (multiple plurals - characters &
stories)
What was confusing
here was how to structure the worksheets when there are multiple plurals, as
there could be several possible ways of doing this. Please confirm if all of the
below would connect:
Option
1
- worksheet #1 - student recognizes 1 character from a story
- worksheet #2 - student recognizes 1 character (a different character) from a different story
Option
2
- worksheet #1 - student recognizes more than 1 character from a story
- worksheet #2 - student recognizes more than 1 character from a different story
Option 3
- both worksheets
contain multiple characters and multiple stories
- worksheet #1 - Has the titles of 3 different stories and pictures of 3 characters. Student matches the picture of the character to the story
- worksheet #2 - has a picture of a character, with the titles of 3 different stories. Student circle the name of the story title that matches the character. Student then has another character picture (from a different story) and the same 2 story titles to choose from.
Are all 3 acceptable
options? RESPONSE: Each of the
three options appears to connect to the AGLI and task.
Grade 6 ELA 21310
- Compose the
answers to literal questions about explicit text in an appropriate
organizational format.
Question.....does
the teacher have to grade spelling, punctuation etc ? RESPONSE: The teacher
does not have to grade for spelling or punctuation unless that is part of what
he/she has indicated the VE will demonstrate in the task. For the Sample
Assessment Task the appropriate organizational format is related to complete
answers. The teacher could develop a scoring rubric that took into account
spelling and punctuation which would provide for a more expanded process to
determine the performance calculations.
