2 . 'How important is it to your assessment team that each scoring criterion is linked to a single standard within a standard set?'
Each scoring criterion should be a measurement of only one standard. If you give a single score for two standards, you are not getting a true picture of student ability for either standard. Please comment...
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As we continue to refine our assessment system, one of the big tasks is to evaluate how we assign criteria and standards. Currently, our "over assessment" is in this area.
ReplyDeleteIn some regard this is as much an issue related to the standards themselves as it is related to the criterion. If the standard is one that is high level, it will necessarily include multiple lower level skills. We struggle with this all the time, in part, because we are committed to using rubrics that are authentic to the faculty member's assignment. Then we map to our standards, which are our College level competencies. The assignment criterion do address more than one standard (e.g critical thinking and information literacy)as they are currently defined.
ReplyDeleteAs more people become involved in the conversation, these issues are seeing more light and generating more questions. At the beginning of our implementation we are intentionally less restrictive because then we have information that speaks to more audiences and gets them involved in the conversation.
Again, we are uncertain about the affects on validity here...we just don't believe that mapping more than one standard to one criterion will do so. In fact, in our field of education, with NCATE requirements for 6-8 key assessments, we would find it hard not to map more that 1 standard to some criteria.
ReplyDeleteWe seem to be following along the same lines as Michelle and Deborah.It isn't possible with our current state standards to map one standard to one criterion. We have complex and/or often poorly developed standards that don't always map easily to what we measure or value.
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