Scoring Guide for Student Products
What Kinds of Groups Can Use The Scoring Guide?
Level 1: External Evaluators
External evaluators assess a portfolio of exemplary projects as part of a system assessment of the impact of technology. Student products represent varied content areas and classrooms. No more than one product from one classroom can be submitted. Teachers and students submit written reflections of their project using the Teacher Lesson Profile and the Student Learning Profile, along with the actual student product.
Process A: Two or more trained evaluators review together nine or more exemplary student products that represent a cross-section of grade levels and content areas, and write up separate reports. Two buildings can be evaluated in two days: the external evaluators would review one building's nine documents in the morning and a second building's documents in the afternoon, and then use another day to write up the reports and exchange findings with district staff as critical friends.
Process B: Two or more trained evaluators review exemplary student products that represent one grade level and have been moved to a central location. Two or more external evaluators review student products in the morning and write up their findings in the afternoon. One day would be planned for each grade level, with a half-day spent on reviewing student products and a half-day spent on writing up and exchanging findings.
Level 2: Internal Evaluators
Internal evaluators are designated district staff facilitated by a trained evaluator to conduct their own formal evaluation process using student products. Student products represent varied content areas and classrooms. No more than one product per classroom can be submitted. Teachers and students submit written reflections of their project using the Teacher Lesson Profile and the Student Learning Profile along with the actual product. Eighteen evaluators work in teams of two to evaluate nine student products. These evaluators will have been trained to use a process that calibrates their findings, developing inter-reliability of their conclusions and providing a report called The Summative Report for Student Products. This training process takes a full day to allow for adequate dialogue and learning.
Level 3: District, Building or Professional Staff Developers
District staff, facilitated by a trained evaluator, are introduced to The Scoring Guide to develop skills in assessing their own students' products. These are the same student product evaluation tools used in Levels 1 and 2, but they use sample student products. The goal is to train and encourage teachers to keep their own running records to be used to measure student achievement within a building or district.
Level 4: Student Collaborative Scoring
Students use the same process as in Level 2, Internal Evaluators. Students use this process to learn from one another how to be consumers as well as producers of effective communication and information using The Scoring Guide.
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